Tag Archives: books

Jez Burrows was robbed. Also, Penguin cover art rocks.

I’m not only saying that Jez Burrows was robbed because Bronwyn (my hero) said it first. (Or because everyone else on the web seems to think so.)
I’m saying that Jez Burrows was robbed because this is one of the sexiest book covers I’ve seen all year:

That being said, this post is not about Jez Burrows […]

A politician’s reading list: my unsolicited recommendations

A professor once told me that you can learn a lot about people by the books they read. I’d argue that you can learn even more about people by the books they recommend for others to read.
That’s probably why I found this article in the New York Times so fascinating: earlier this month, the Book […]

Fiction books you must read before you die

When I was young, my father used to chastize me for not looking up from my book while crossing the street. Calling me a “bookworm” was an apt metaphor: when I picked up a book, I crawled inside it and very rarely broke free to see the light of day until I was done.
These days, […]

7 current writers I’m in love with

Steve Jobs thinks that reading is dead, but if that’s true, mark me as an anomaly. I love reading. I love the way good writers craft their sentences and stories in ways that captivate and enthrall. I love that great writers not only entertain me when I read their work, but inspire me to be […]

Yup, Bronwyn is my hero

So you know that post I wrote today where I said that Steve Jobs was wrong when he said that reading was dead? Well, as much as that post came from my heart, it wasn’t really the best post I have ever written.
What I really wish I had written, instead, was something akin to what […]