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My Favorite Books

I read a lot.  That is something I have always copped to and don’t regret it.  And, each year I keep a list of all the books I have read that year.  I typically try to hit 50, or for the math challenged, about one a week.   In all the years I have been […]
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Books I Read In 2010

2010 Books I Have Read The Audacity to Win: David Plouffe 1/22 Linchpin: Seth Godin 2/8 Point Omega:  Don DeLillo 2/14 Be Prepared: Gary Greenburg & Jeannie Hayden 2/28 Heat: Bill Buford 3/12 The Runner’s Rule Book: Mark Remy 3/20 Change The Way You See Yourself: Kathryn D. Cramer & Hank Wasiak 3/25 The Omnivore’s Dilemma: Michael Pollan 4/1 In Defense of Food: Michael […]
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Books I Read 2008

Million Dollar Habits by Brian Tracy 1/25 Chuck Klosterman IV by Chuck Klosterman 1/25 Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson 2/1 The Diving Bell And The Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby 2/2 Men and Cartoons by Jonathan Lethem 2/8 Cracking The Code by Thom Hartmann 2/11 Snow by Orhan Pamuk 2/27 No Country For Old Men by Cormac McCarthy 2/28 101 Essential Tips-Wine by Tom […]
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Book I Read In 2009

2009 Books I Have Read1.  The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz 1/262.  Vermeer’s Hat by Timothy Brook 2/73.  The Gum Thief by Douglas Coupland 3/54.  The Four Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferris 3/235.  Trump 101: The Way To Success by Donald J. Trump 5/46.  Trump: The Art of the Deal by Donal J. Trump 5/97.  Take It Personally by Anita Roddick […]
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‘Showboat: The Life Of Kobe Bryant’

A lot of times biographies really just reinforce a narrative that you have about a person, especially in sports. I wouldn’t have likely picked this one up if I hadn’t read Roland Lazenby’s last book Michael Jordan: The Life and been transported back to the time when I was a kid growing up and Michael Jordan seemed […]
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