Ghettoside by Jill Leovy. In depth story about homicides in the poorer parts of LA. The author makes the strong case that the high rate of crime is a consequence…
Aware by Daniel J. Siegel. A recommended text on meditation, but too much handwavey pseudo science for me. Did not find worthwhile at all, rather found it annoying. Buddha’s Brain…
Waking Up White by Debby Irving. A lot to process in this book. I am probably just a few steps along the path to really understanding race in the US…
Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky. Award winner, and an interesting precept about a future human diaspora to the stars, but oh my gosh did it drag on. Editor please.…
The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson. Great retelling of the cholera epidemic in 1854 London, and the detective workto find the source. We look back andthe infectious mechanism for cholera…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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. …
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…
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…