Managing Humans was a recommendation from someone at work. It is basically a collection of blog posts turned into a book. That does not…
Black List is yet another Scot Harvath novel by Brad Thor. It was still fun to read but they keep getting worse. This was did quite a bit…
Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned is less of a book and more of a series of blog posts. It contains a great kernel of a idea, namely goal…
Full Black is the next installment in the Scot Harvath series by Brad Thor. I have read all of them so far. They are pretty much all the…
Confronting The Classics I picked up because Taya had suggested that I might like it given my recent interest in history podcasts…
The Athena Project is the next installment in the Scot Harvath series by Brad Thor. Once again not much to talk about. I like these books…
The Whole-Brain Child is part of the current parenting zeitgeist mostly coming out of Southern California psychology practices. Like many…
In the same general genre as Gone Girl and The Girl on the Train , In a Dark, Dark Wood is a thriller with some violence and a few…
Iron Gold is the fourth book in the Red Rising series which I originally thought was intended to be a trilogy. It has been a while since…
Give People Money is yet another book on Universal Basic Income. The writing is decent, the range of topics is worthy, and if you know…
The Last Patriot is the next installment in the Scot Harvath series after The First Commandment . Not much to say here, the books in this…
I have been thinking about universal basic income (UBI) a lot lately, and luckily enough so have a lot of other people. The New York Times…
The last in the batch of parenting books that I bought, The Danish Way of Parenting turns to Denmark as a bastion of happiness to explain…
Authority is the second book in the Southern Reach trilogy, the first being Annihilation . I would classify these both as literary science…
In trying to keep the sources of my books diverse I pull from some lists periodically just to keep an eye on what other people are reading…
Nausea was not that good. In some sense I feel bad saying that, especially when the Amazon tagline is "Sartre's greatest novel — and…
I was recommended to read one of the books in this series, so I chose the first one, The Color of Magic . It is super weird. I am not…
I picked The Last Girl as my choice for the free book of the month from Amazon, at least that is how I think I got this for free. It was…
Amazon started a program called Kindle First where you can pick one of six books each month to get for free. Of the six choices for…
I have always been interested in the criminal justice system both from a fiction and non-fiction perspective. Forensics is a non-fiction…
Philip K. Dick is widely regarded as one of the top tier science fiction writers of all time. At the same time, he seems to have a bit of…
After reading a few of the Scot Harvath books by Brad Thor, Amazon recommended The Lost Codex which is part of the OPSIG series by Alan…
After reading The City of Ember , I was sufficiently interested to see what the next installment in this series would have to offer. Thus…
Walden is yet another reminder that not all classics are good. I have a suspicion that those who pontificate on Walden only read the…
I have always enjoyed reading science fiction books, but for whatever reason I sometimes disagree with the status quo when it comes to what…
After reading a few young adult trilogies, Amazon recommended The City of Ember . This book was pretty similar to Red Rising and that…
I don't completely know what to say about On the Road . It was an okay read, although I had trouble staying awake throughout as it was so…
I just finished another book that further reinforced how much I like science fiction. Red Rising felt quite a bit like the Hunger Games…
Historical fiction is a strange genre. The first example of this that I remember reading was The Agony and the Ecstasy . That was a very…
See How Small is Amazon's Spotlight pick for January 2015, whatever that means. Basically, there was a list on Amazon of books and I picked…
This may seem like a bit of an odd choice for me to read, but I've been wondering what the big fuss was about this series of books…