Book Review: The Imperfectionists
When you work at a newspaper, you tend to think no one else sees the things you do. Not in the course of your duties, but in your workplace. No one works with weirder people. No one sees that kind […]
Book Review: Fleeced
Now that I have a Kindle (more on that in next week’s column), I feel like a whole new world has opened up to me. I can search all through the Amazon catalog and find obscure books which I might […]
Book Review: The Accidental Billionaires
After the last book I read, I knew I needed something which would restore my reading motivation. I needed something fast, but substantive. I needed something which would make my brain work, but not too much. I needed some Ben […]
Book Review: The Pig Did It
Sometimes I let my passions get the best of my better judgment. That’s my explanation for how “The Pig Did It” by Joseph Caldwell ended up on my stack of books. I love Ireland. My family originally emigrated from there […]
Book Review: My Life as an Experiment
Don’t you hate when you read something and immediately think, “Why didn’t I do that first?” That’s kind of how I felt after finishing A.J. Jacobs’ book “My Life as an Experiment.” Of course there is the factor that I […]
Book Review: Russell Wiley Is Out to Lunch
Even though my years working in public relations and marketing has now surpassed my full-time newspaper days, I still feel like I belong in a newsroom. Despite all the problems the industry has and the way I know it would […]
Book Review: A Season on the Mat
As a sportswriter, I always wanted to write one of those books where you spend a whole season with a team and chronicle their ups and downs. When I left the writing side of the journalism game on a full-time […]
Reading Challenge: Year 3
Two years ago, I set a goal to average one book per month. I didn’t necessarily need to read one every month. I just wanted to finish the year having completed a dozen books. I managed to pull that off […]
Book Review: It Feels So Good When I Stop
God, I have been a bad blogger lately. No reason – just lazy and procrastinatey. Anyways, let’s get back into the swing of things (hopefully) with a look at a book I read at least a month ago. I had […]
Book Review: Misconception
For some reason, I have fallen into a reading rut. I don’t have any problem finding books I want to read or finishing the ones I start. I have just read three straight books which I didn’t enjoy as much […]