Books

Educating Esme: Diary of a Teacher’s First Year is my new best book of the summer. It’s a diary of Esme Raji Codell’s first year as a public school teacher

I appear to have several people in my life (Amy Batchelor, Dave Jilk, Chris Wand, and Steve Bayle) who view correcting my grammar, spelling, punctuation, and word usage as part

I don’t read much history – for some reason I don’t get into it. I do like biography and get most of my “history reading” from it. So – it’s

Now that I’ve chowed down a bunch of Stephen Frey books, if there’s one you read, it should be The Legacy. It combines light Wall Street stuff with a giant

Seth Godin is magnificent and his new book – Free Prize Inside: The Next Big Marketing Idea – is a winner. This book takes you on a romp through the

In my attempt to read all of Stephen Frey’s books in record time and subsequently rate an entry in Guiness Book of World Records, I read The Inner Sanctum today.

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