Adam Shields Takeaway: This is a book that should be read, because even if you really disagree with it, the ideas are important. I have a tendency (probably bad) to read a lot of books at the same time. What that means is that I often will put something to the side for a while before coming back to … Read more
This is another free book from Audible.com I am not linking because it has been removed from the site. I have never heard of the author before. It is a great example of Free being used to introduce people to authors. Evidently Schroeder isn’t a new author. He has 12 books (including three in this … Read more
As I have said before, I am a big fan of Baen publishers. They have been working with ebooks long before the Kindle. I have been reading Baen ebooks since around 2000. I started reading on my Dell Axim pda. I have now read well over 100 Baen books. Many of them are miliary based … Read more
This was another book that I purchased at a sale on Audible.com. It was $5 and 10 hours long. It was cheap and I knew a movie had been based loosely on it. Many people that I trust really liked the movie, but I have never seen it. It is an era of history that … Read more
This was a free audiobook from Audible.com. I saw the movie but hadn’t read the book before. The book was based in London instead of Chicago (Not New York, thanks Jay) but had a very similar sensibility. It was well written and much more centered around talking about sex than the movie. (And less about the … Read more
Like most people currently reading My Life in France, I recently saw the movie Julie and Julia. And like everyone that I know, the movie made me interested in Julia Child but a little repulsed by Julie Powell (at least as portrayed in the movie, although I have several friends that have read the book … Read more
I have just finished listening Light and Glory. I picked it up in an Audible.com sale for $5. I had heard it was a good book and didn’t even bother to read the description, after all it was $5. I honestly thought it was about early missionaries. Had Audible had the complete title on their … Read more
I am participating in another group blog. This time with the book “Trust Agents: Using the Web to Build Influence, Improve Reputation, and Earn Trust“. This is a book about how to use social media properly. I have read enough that I bought the book for some people I know at a non-profit that I … Read more
If you are joining late to the game. This is a group blogging project. I am only writing about chapter 3 of Simple Church. (Note I linked to the Amazon Kindle version because at the time of writing, the paperback and hardback were not in stock at Amazon.) If you want to see the posts … Read more
Takeaway: Real people are complicated, which shouldn’t keep us from appreciating great work. I started reading this book because I did not know much about the creation of the atomic bomb or anything about Robert Oppenheimer. While it is interesting to learn about Oppenheimer and the bomb, what is most interesting for me is the history of … Read more