My trip to Hawaii provided me the chance to read a bunch of books in between UK basketball, golf, snorkeling and lots and lots of food. I’ve always been a David Sedaris fan, so when I heard he was coming out with a rather bizarre book of fables involving animals, I said what the hell […]
Just because I’ve haven’t posted any book reviews lately doesn’t mean I’ve given up the written word. Far from it. I just took the summer months to crush through a whole bunch of books from the fiction writers I love, and since those don’t have the same umph as the nonfiction I spend a majority […]
I’ll apologize right off for the rambling/incoherent nature of this post. It’s going to serve double-duty. Because in the span of a week I got to educate myself on the war in Afghanistan in two ways, both profound in their own right. It started with reading Sebastian Junger’s new book, War. Those who know my […]
Keeping up with my tradition of reading nonfiction books about strange, singular food topics, my mother gave me The Foie Gras Wars as a gift, and so of course I had to read it. It’s probably the most open and least aggressive food book I have read in terms of trying to drive a message […]
Another holiday tradition I get to partake in is killing through books during those 10 days. Seeing that I drove back to Kentucky again this year, this gave me plenty of hours of knock off a book on the ride back to the bluegrass. On the way to Kentucky, the book was Jon Krakauer’s “Where […]
Better than just about any documentary on how your food is prepared and where it comes from, The Omnivore’s Dilemma kills it in the first third of the book, giving detailed accounts to the uses and ubiquitousness of America’s greatest food source, corn. I am a foodie and I care a lot about where my […]
I love vacations. It means I can, hopefully, create for myself a lot of free time to read and read and read. I love active vacations, but I need them to also include some simple chill-out time. Time to relax and get sucked into something fun. And since I have all but sworn off reading […]
I know the exact moment when it happened. The specific moment in my life when my belief in religion and god and all that came to a stark and sudden end and it was never to come back. I admit that my questioning of religion and whatnot had been happening prior to this moment, and […]
Last holiday season when driving back to Kentucky for all the family gatherings and such, one great way to pass the time was listening to books on tape. Hey, it was like reading and it made the 9-hour drive go by a helluva lot faster. And at least I was good about getting the unabridged […]
One of the best gifts my mother ever gave me was a couple of years ago when she got me a subscription to Fast Company. As a mover and shaker at GE, she thought the maagzine’s blend of forward-thinking, business-minded, green innovation content was right up my alley. Boy was she ever right. These days […]