So Good They Can’t Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love by Cal Newport This book bills itself as the antithesis of “What Color is Your Parachute.” It promotes the idea, as does Newport’s Studyhacks blog, that following your passion is bad advice. This is definitely a self-help book, …
Category: Book Review
May 01
Book Review: Blood, Bones, and Butter
“Blood, Bones, and Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef by Gabrielle Hamilton Memoirs I’ve read fall into one of four categories. There’s the “My childhood is worse than your childhood” memoir, the “I am or hang out with famous people” memoir, the chef/restaurateur” memoir, and the “traveled the world and met quaint people” …
Apr 26
Book Review: Old Man’s War
Old Man’s War by John Scalzi I read this book because it came with a bundle of books by other authors for my kindle. I’d read THE GOD ENGINES and have been to Scalzi’s blog, so I’d heard of this book and decided to give it a try. I liked THE GOD ENGINES very much, …
Apr 25
Book Review: A Perfect Blood
A Perfect Blood by Kim Harrison This is the second-to-latest book in Kim Harrison’s Hollows series, featuring the redheaded witch Rachel Morgan and her cast of friends and enemies. I strongly suspect that if you haven’t been following along the whole time, you’ll be hopelessly lost, so don’t try to pick this up mid-series. This …
Apr 10
Book Review: Collision Course
Collision Course: The Classic Story of the Collision of the Andrea Doria & the Stockholm by Alvin Moscow If you’re older than, say, 65, you might remember where you were when the Stockholm crashed into the Andrea Doria. I’m considerably younger than that, and had never heard of this boat crash, which apparently riveted the …