Finished reading The Alchemist’s Pursuit by Dave Duncan. The Alchemist’s Pursuit is the third book in Dave Duncan’s Alchemist’s series, a Venetian fantasy mystery. In this book Alfeo Zeno, apprentice to Nostradamus, is in search of a killer who’s targeting Venice’s prostitutes. After three women are strangled a courtesan and friend of Alfeo, Donna [...]

Finished reading The Alchemist’s Code by Dave Duncan. The Alchemist’s Code is the sequel to the Alchemist’s Apprentice. In this book an ordinary case of a missing girl turns serious when Venice’s Council of Ten asks Nostradamus to find a spy. Nostradamus’s only clues lie in a ciphered message that hasn’t been decoded.

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Finished reading Crush It!: Why NOW Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion by Gary Vaynerchuk. Crush It! is about turning your personal passion into a career. Gary Vaynerchuk took his father’s local liquor store and turned the $4 million business into a $50 million business. After which he created a wine [...]

Finished reading The Alchemist’s Apprentice by Dave Duncan. The Alchemist’s series features alchemist and astrologer Maestro Nostradamus and his nobly born apprentice, Alfeo Zeno, who narrates with panache. Duncan mixes a vision of old Venice and fantasy to create the world portrayed in The Alchemist’s Apprentice. In the Alchemist’s Apprentice, the first book in [...]

Finished reading Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (P.S.) by Steven Levitt. Levitt argue that many seemingly mysterious events of everyday life aren’t mysteries at all. The events can be examined and made even more fascinating by asking the right questions and drawing connections. For example, Levitt traces the drop [...]

Finished reading The Copper Bracelet By Jeffery Deaver. The Copper Bracelet is the sequel to The Chopin Manuscript. The book continues with Harold Middleton as he’s drawn into a terrorist plot to engage India and Pakistan in nuclear war. Travelling between Nice, London, Moscow, and Kashmir to avert a nuclear disaster, Middleton is unaware [...]

Finished reading Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done by Larry Bossidy. The book asserts that execution is a discipline integral to a successful strategy. Bossidy states it is the business leaders’ responsibility to make execution part of the corporate culture. It contains details of both successful and unsuccessful executions at corporations such as [...]

Finished reading The Chopin Manuscript by Jeffery Deaver. Former war crimes investigator Harold Middleton has a previously unknown score by Frederic Chopin. But he is unaware that, locked within its handwritten notes, lies a secret that threatens the lives of thousands of Americans. Accused of murder, pursued by federal agents, and targeted by assassins [...]

Finished reading Brain Rules by John Medina. Brain Rules focuses on the contemporary business buzzword multitasking. In a chapter on attention Medina, a developmental molecular biologist, shows how the brain can really only focus on one thing at a time. Medina presents reputable principles on how the brain works and what we can do [...]