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Book 40 I pulled out another New Orleans book because my friend Andrew just blogged a manifesto about the place, and it made me miss it. And this piece seemed a bit less hurricane-tragic than the others I have read: The House of First… Continue Reading “The House on First Street, by Julia Reed”
Book 39 The Return of Sherlock Holmes was one of the out-of-copyright freebie books on the Amazon Kindle. I started reading it for two reasons. First, I was on the road for two weeks in September and second, I remembered that reading Holmes cases… Continue Reading “The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle”
Book 38 Another book that I picked up while researching Amazon.com. This was much less useful for a scholarly study. And sometimes, it made me cringe. Most memorable for my poor psyche was the last straw before Daisey quit his job: Someone left a… Continue Reading “21 Dog Years: Doing Time at Amazon.com, by Mike Daisey”
Book 37 I picked up eight books from the library to research my final project and Amazonia, by James Marcus, was actually interesting. Marcus was Employee #55, hired by Jeff Bezos in 1996 to be an editor on Amazon.com. He reviewed books. Lots and… Continue Reading “Amazonia: Five Years at the Epicenter of the Dot.com Juggernaut, by James Marcus”
Book 36I came across Charles Barkley’s Who’s Afraid of a Large Black Man? at Half Price Books. I’ve always rather liked Barkley (except when he was playing the Bulls) and in this book, he interviews a whole bunch of people (Tiger Woods, Bill Clinton,… Continue Reading “Who’s Afraid of a Large Black Man?, by Charles Barkley”
Book 35 I had a Barnes & Noble gift card, so I found a copy of Things I Learned About My Dad (in therapy) from an Ohio library’s used book store. Heather Armstrong (aka Dooce) edited this series of essays from a variety of… Continue Reading “Things I Learned about My Dad (in therapy), edited by Heather Armstrong”
Book 34 Since Mike Royko’s death, I have been seeing his books everywhere. I picked up Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicago at the Library Used Book Store. When my mother saw me reading it, she asked if it was my father’s copy. He… Continue Reading “Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicago, by Mike Royko”
Book 33 I was in the mood for some schmaltz, so I pulled Bob Greene’s And You Know You Should Be Glad from my shelf. I had originally picked it up at the Library Used Book Store. Greene had a lifelong best friend develop… Continue Reading “And You Know You Should Be Glad, by Bob Greene”
Book 32 In case you have never been in a Barnes & Noble in your life, A Thousand Splendid Suns is the second novel of Khaled Hosseini, the guy that wrote The Kite Runner. The Kite Runner was a tale of Afghanistan told from… Continue Reading “A Thousand Splendid Suns, by Khaled Hosseini”
Book 31 I enjoyed Arturo Perez-Reverte’s The Club Dumas, so I picked up Captain Alatriste, which seems to be the beginning of a series. Alatriste is a 17th century Spanish swordsman who gets himself into trouble. He is also guardian to the narrator, who… Continue Reading “Captain Alatriste, by Arturo Perez-Reverte”
The Next Dark Age 