My Thoughts and Ramblings
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …