I enjoyed Kathy Reichs’s first novel Déjà Dead enough that, despite its few shortcomings, I came back for seconds. I’m quite glad that I did. The…
I can’t recall when it was that I first read Tarzan of the Apes. I remember enjoying the Tarzan TV show as a young child,…
A few months ago I attended a day-long class led by Scott Berkun, author of *The Myths of Innovation*. Included in the tuition was a…
There’s been so much written about David Allen’s Getting Things Done that it seems silly to try to retell it. This book is dense and…
My interest in the Supreme Court was rekindled recently when I learned just prior to his retirement announcement that Justice David Souter writes his opinions with a…
I guess I didn’t get enough cops-and-robbers (OK, meth dealers and gunrunners) when I read William Queen’s *[Under and Alone]([canonical-url:node/715])* four years ago. I was…
The third book I read in 2009 was Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers. I have not read Gladwell’s first book, The Tipping Point, but I was very…
As O’Reilly books go, this is thin and light. That is particularly appropriate given the subject matter, but nevertheless notable on a shelf next to…
The first book I finished reading in 2009 was Stephen King’s Cell. I picked up the hardcover at Barnes & Noble’s clearance table. I went…