Archive for November, 2006
More Space: Nine Antidotes To Complacency In Business
Title: More Space: Nine Antidotes To Complacency In Business
Edited by: Todd Sattersten
Paperback: 152 pages
Publisher: Astronaut Projects (October 25, 2005)
ISBN: 097700483X
This book was another free one from inBubbleWrap.com . This is a collection of nine stories by different authors having to do with complacency. I found the book somewhat lacking – the ideas weren’t [...]
November 26th, 2006 by alephnaught
The Story of Writing
Title: The Story of Writing
Author: Andrew Robinson
Paperback: 224 pages
Publisher: Thames & Hudson; New Ed edition (September 1, 1999)
ISBN: 0500281564
I bought this book a year or so ago at the Museum of Modern Art in NYC. I’ve always been interested in language, especially since I don’t seem able to learn much of anything other than [...]
November 26th, 2006 by alephnaught
Live At KEXP Volume 2
I heard about the CD “Live At KEXP Volume 2″ on Sound Opinions (a weeklypublic radio show that features interesting new music and interviews and performances in their studio). Its pretty good – you can find it at http://www.kexp.org .
November 26th, 2006 by alephnaught
Sapori Trattoria
Sapori Trattoria is on Halsted just south of Diversey. Its a small Italian restaurant with a reasonably diverse menu and a pretty good wine list.
I had the squash soup and the ossabucco on lasagna – the food was really good but the service was terrible. I think something was wrong in the kitchen [...]
November 14th, 2006 by alephnaught
Sarah: Women of Genesis
Title: Sarah: Women of Genesis
Author: Orson Scott Card
Mass Market Paperback: 352 pages
Publisher: Forge Books; 1st Forge Ed edition (August 30, 2001)
ISBN: 0765341174
I enjoyed this book a lot. Its very much fiction – as Card writes in the end notes, the Torah includes little detail and so any undertaking like this requires filling in details [...]
November 14th, 2006 by alephnaught
Election day is over!
Well, I voted again:
I’m glad I did, I vote in every election.
But what an election…. The ads on TV were nasty this year, and they were almost continuous. What is our country coming to….
November 4th, 2006 by alephnaught
The Red Tent
Title: The Red Tent
Author: Anita Diamant
Paperback: 336 pages
Publisher: Picador; 1st Picador USA Pbk. Ed edition (September 15, 1998)
ISBN: 0312195516
This is one of the best books I’ve read in a long time. Its a novel based upon the short section of the Torah describing the life of Dinah, daughter of Leah and Jacob.
Not only is [...]
English
November 29th, 2006 by alephnaught