Help! Like most other readers, I can't find time to read all that I want to. Would you like to share some thoughts on something you've enjoyed lately? I'm looking for guest bloggers. It's this easy: tell us what you've read recently - old or new, any genre - what you liked about it, and why you'd recommend it. It's a fact: there are too many books, and too little time. Your recommendations can help others use their reading time wisely, and find books they might have otherwise overlooked.
Please contact me if you're the slightest bit interested. I welcome your reviews, and your fellow readers will appreciate it, too.
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
If only I had more time to read...
If there were just a few more hours in each week, I'd read...
...The Why Files, from top to bottom. I think of it as the science-lover's weekly, for non-science majors.
The editors do a fabulous job of delivering in-depth content, with most of that content being connected to current events and headlines.
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What about you? What would you read if given an extra hour or two to do so?
...The Why Files, from top to bottom. I think of it as the science-lover's weekly, for non-science majors.
The editors do a fabulous job of delivering in-depth content, with most of that content being connected to current events and headlines.
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What about you? What would you read if given an extra hour or two to do so?
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Just gave up on The Big Short
The Big Short by Michael Lewis is an excellent book, and I heartily recommend it - if you can stomach it. It doesn't go down easy - and I'm not the only one who gave up on the book. Wall Street Journal blogger Peter Lattman took on admittedly more work by reading the thesis by a recent Harvard grad, cited in Lewis' acknowledgement, instead of reading the book itself.
Before I quit reading, I was surprised to learn that Lewis, who also wrote Moneyball (film adaptation starring Brad Pitt now in theaters) and The Blind Side, spent a few years in his early career working on Wall Street. In this book, he exposes the smoke and mirrors and BS that passes for "complicated math" and reveals what most of us know, in our guts: most investment schemes are, first and foremost, schemes. Flat-out thievery in many cases.
Look, Lewis is an outstanding storyteller with superb research skills (translation: hard-working journalist) and I'll try to read just about anything he writes. Unfortunately, I just couldn't handle this particular tale. Probably because it's a true story, about a bunch of crooks who got rich and got away with it. And we're still paying the bills.
Sigh.
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Attention book clubbers bound and determined to figure out the financial mess: this is your book.
Before I quit reading, I was surprised to learn that Lewis, who also wrote Moneyball (film adaptation starring Brad Pitt now in theaters) and The Blind Side, spent a few years in his early career working on Wall Street. In this book, he exposes the smoke and mirrors and BS that passes for "complicated math" and reveals what most of us know, in our guts: most investment schemes are, first and foremost, schemes. Flat-out thievery in many cases.
Look, Lewis is an outstanding storyteller with superb research skills (translation: hard-working journalist) and I'll try to read just about anything he writes. Unfortunately, I just couldn't handle this particular tale. Probably because it's a true story, about a bunch of crooks who got rich and got away with it. And we're still paying the bills.
Sigh.
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Attention book clubbers bound and determined to figure out the financial mess: this is your book.
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