Books

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

After a few weeks on Typepad, I decided to switch to Movable Type 3.0 so I’d have more control over my blog format. I’ve reached the point where I’ve changed

Two books in one day – that’s either a long day or a delightful absence of television from my life. Stephen Frey’s Shadow Account is fun (4 of 5 stars).

Run (or click) don’t walk to buy Death by Meeting : A Leadership Fable…About Solving the Most Painful Problem in Business. The author – Patrick Lencioni – is an ex-VP

I read a lot. I try to make sure every third book is mental floss (or – as my mom says, “junk.”) Today’s mental floss was Reckless Abandon by Stuart