Books

The Republican Noise Machine : Right Wing Media and How it Corrupts Democracy was a depressing book. I first noticed it from a post by Jerry Colonna. I had it

The fourth of July weekend seems like a good time to clean out the brain with some fun summer reading. I recently read my first Stephen Frey book (Shadow Account)

A true story. From the flyleaf, “In early 2000, the bottom dropped out of the life of New Yorker writer David Denby when his wife announced she was leaving him.

I’m up in Alaska and have been sucking down books. Following are five flyby reviews for those of you with different tastes. Chirunning – Good book on combining T’ai Chi

Amy finished The Kite Runner the other day and immediately called me on my cell phone and said “I just read the best first novel that I’ve read so far

Walking to Vermont: From Times Square into the Green Mountains–A Homeward Adventure by Christopher Wren is a fun trip from Manhattan to Vermont along the Appalachian and Long Trails. Wren

If you are a runner, you’ll love this book. If not, you won’t. The Purple Runner was written in 1983 and is based in Hampstead Heath, London. The story tracks

Jenny Lawton – owner of Just Books in Greenwich, CT – recently had the authors of The Rule of Four (Dusty Thomason and Ian Caldwell) and Codex (Lev Grossman) in

This was a chewy one. I just finished I’ve been involved in companies that develop software for 20 years and have seen numerous different approaches with a wide range of

Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris is fucking hilarious. Sedaris has written several other books about his dysfunctional family. I guess I’ve been living under a