Thursday, June 13, 2013

2013.Book24 - The Wordy Shipmates (Vowell)

Pretty good religious/american history.

Monday, June 10, 2013

2013.Book23 - Necessary Evil (Tregillis)

Excellent conclusion to the trilogy. Just awesome to re-do the first book through time travel. And the effect on characters, especially Gretel.

Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Monday, May 20, 2013

2013.Book21 - Blue Like Jazz (Miller)

Mostly terrible. A little good stuff about love.

Thursday, May 16, 2013

2013.Book 20 - Sum (Eagleman)

Very cool inventions on afterlives, with the point being to get us to think about our actual lives.

2013.Book19 - The Power of Why (Lang)

Pretty good self-help/business book. Too much "and this secret is why this company succeeded and this company failed" just-so stories, and kind of a lack of awareness of workers' reality. Like, why should I work hard and be creating to increase corporate profits. On the other hand, the call to curiosity as a path to a happier life is pretty accurate.

Monday, May 13, 2013

2013.Book18 - London Falling (Cornell)

Really excellent fantasy noir police procedural

Sunday, May 05, 2013

2013.Book17 - Griftopia (Taibbi)

Excellent political/financial reporting

Sunday, April 14, 2013

Wednesday, April 03, 2013

2013.Book14 - The Born Queen (Keyes)

Pretty good epic fantasy. Doesn't really pay off the promise built up through the series. Maybe I just wasn't paying enough attention?

Thursday, March 28, 2013

Tuesday, March 12, 2013

2013.Book12 - Bitter Seeds (Tregillis)

Excellent alternate history novel of WWII. Really really good.

Friday, March 08, 2013

2013.Book11 - The Charnel Prince (Keyes)

Very good epic fantasy (second of four)

Tuesday, March 05, 2013

2013.Book10 - Atheist's Guide to Reality (Rosenberg)

Very good. All bullets crunched between powerful teeth.

Tuesday, February 19, 2013

2013.Book9 - Racing Through the Dark (Millar)

Pretty good autobiography of a life in pro cycling - doping and then not. Landis' book is worse, Hamilton's is better.

Sunday, February 17, 2013

Wednesday, February 06, 2013

2013.Book7 - Moneyball (Lewis)

Excellent story of the Oakland A's. "He was right, and the world was wrong"

Monday, February 04, 2013

Monday, January 28, 2013

2013.Book5 - The Big Short (Lewis)

Excellent story of the 2008 financial crisis, sub-prime mortgages, bonds, CDOs, and CDSs.