Origin Story by David Christian. Great story about the long waves of development over the entire course of history. Focusing just on the human development part of the story, human societal development has been characterized by increasing energy consumption and […]
The Legacy of the Civil War by Robert Penn Warren. The book is almost 60 years old and still super relevant. And demands careful reading, he doesn’t cater to the reader who isn’t willing to think or work. The Power […]
Sabrina by Nick Drnaso. Graphic novel, odd little story which wanders around and doesn’t really go anywhere. Reviews were excellent but I found it dull. Bad Blood by John Carreyrou. The Theranos story. Wow. Unalloyed ambition, the worst of Silicon […]
CSNY’s “Ohio” (Wikipedia, Youtube ) hits me hard every time I hear it. I still see the bodies on the news, the classmates in anguish. “How many more” resonates through my head. CSNY pushed that record out in 3 weeks. […]
Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee. This settled down into basic space opera but some fun language and ideas about an era in which we have dramatically more control over the physical world. Have You Tried Working? By Anthony Gardner. […]
Six Wakes by Mur Lafferty. Awesome tale of 6 travelers on a space ship, trying to figure out who among them is trying to kill all of them. Agatha Christie in space! The Wrong Stars by Tim Pratt. Space opera […]
Semiosis by Sue Burke. Very good first contact tale, the things we meet might be very very different than us. No One is Coming to Save Us by Stephanie Powell Watts. Another independent bookstore pick up, waaaay outside my comfort […]
Churchill’s Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare by Giles Milton. Deep dive into the British efforts to combat the Nazis with sabotage, resistance, even terrorism. Well done. The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin. I picked this up at […]
A great launch yesterday — Docusign IPO. Congrats to everyone there. And a big congrats and thanks to JonRo who unflaggingly championed and supported the company through every zig and zag. He taught me such valuable investment lessons about persistence […]
The Dry by Jane Harper. A breathless page turner according to the reviews — i did consume in about 2 days. Very solid tale set in rural Australia — murder, money, long-hidden secrets. Easternization by Gideon Rachman. A good summary […]
The Death and Life of the Great Lakes by Dan Egan. Continuing on my theme of books about bodies of water — this was much more compelling than the Gulf book. Partly because of my familiarity with the Great Lakes, […]
The Gulf by Jack E. Davis. A history of the development of the Gulf of Mexico over the last 300 years sounds like it could be dull, but it is actually pretty interesting, though there is a ton of detail […]
Dear Committee Members by Julue Schumacher. Hilarious and well executed, a series of recommendation letters from a university professor, each of which gets hijacked by events in his personal life. Loved it. I Am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes. Thriller tale […]
Scoreboard, Baby by Ken Armstrong & Nick Perry. The inside story on the UW football team in the early 2000s, pretty shocking and awful. I am sure this level of corruption has happened at other programs too. Red Rising by […]
I am so saddened and angered about the Parkland shooting. I work with a colleague who lost his child. I have been useless in the last week processing this. I’ve sat by year after year as these shootings have happened […]
Still Life by Louise Penny. Great start to this series, homicide in the Quebec countryside. I feel like I have read another in this series but can find no evidence of it. Glass Houses by Louise Penny. And the latest […]
Fire and Fury by Michael Wolff. Who knows if it is all true but it certainly reads true. Most of the administration comes across as unprepared for the job and unwilling to dive in and do the hard work to […]
All Systems Red by Martha Wells. A fun romp with cyborgs, planetary exploration, betrayal, friendship. Short and sweet. Apparently a longer novel form coming out this year. Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by Carlo Rovelli. Super quick walk thru the […]
We Have No Idea by Jorge Cham and Daniel Whiteson. A walk through the big unanswered questions about our universe. The sophomoric humor is very tiresome, I enjoyed some of the information, but can’t recommend. The Grid by Gretchen Bakke. […]
Mansions of Madness was surprisingly fun. We had low expectations, it just didn’t look like our kind of game. Cooperative sounded too nice. But the pace is good, the iPad app really helped run the game, and once we realized […]
