Finished reading The Accidental Sorcerer (Rogue Agent) by K.E. Mills. Gerald Dunwoody, a third grade wizard and safety inspector for Ottoslands Department of Thaumaturgy. Gerald career is thrown for a loop when he inadvertently blows up a wand factory while trying to prevent disaster. After being fired Gerald takes a job in New Ottosland, an [...]
Finished reading Go MAD – The Art of Making A Difference by Andy Gilbert.
Go Mad is an introduction to Andy Gilbert’s Go Mad framework. Gilbert describes each of the seven principles in-depth and relates them to practical real world examples. Go Mad contains lots of excellent information. If you’ve ever wondered why it is that [...]
Finished reading Reality Check by Guy Kawasaki. The subtitle for Reality Check references outdoing your competition, but in reality the majority of the book focuses on getting a startup off the group. If you can forget about the irritating overuse of “bullshittake” Reality Check is useful book. The book is caulk full of do’s and [...]
Finished Reading SuperFreakonomics by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner. SuperFreakonomics picks up where Freakonomics left off. In this book Levitt and Dubner examine bolder, funnier, and even more surprising topics than in the first book. Like Freakonomics, SuperFreakonomics challenges everyday beliefs by exploring the hidden side of everything. In the book the authors ask questions [...]
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 Violetta [...]
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.
Dave Duncan [...]
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 blog, [...]
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 the [...]
Finished Once a Runner: A Novel by John L. Parker. Once a Runner tells the tale of Quenton Cassidy, a runner at Southeastern University whose lifelong dream is to run a four-minute mile. He’s less than a second away when the political and cultural turmoil of the Vietnam War leaks into the school’s athletic department. [...]
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 in [...]
