Archive for July, 2007
Anansi Boys
Title: Anansi Boys
Author: Neil Gaiman
Mass Market Paperback: 400 pages
Publisher: HarperTorch (September 26, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0060515198
ISBN-13: 978-0060515195
Neil Gaiman is a story teller in the old tradition of story tellers. Gaiman writes in the acknowledgement, “…. was the person who persuaded me that the story I told her over lunch that day really would make a good [...]
July 22nd, 2007 by alephnaught
24 Declassified: Chaos Theory
Title: : 24 Declassified: Chaos Theory
Author: : John Whitman
Mass Market Paperback: : 240 pages
Publisher: HarperEntertainment (May 29, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0060842296
SBN-13: 978-0060842291
Read this one in Paris. As usual, it was a quick, fun read. Jack Bauer faces his most unusual foe yet, one that doesn’t follow patterns. The last two sentances will blow you away.
July 13th, 2007 by alephnaught
Chocolate: A Bittersweet Saga of Dark and Light
Title: Chocolate: A Bittersweet Saga of Dark and Light
Author: Mort Rosenblum
Paperback: 304 pages
Publisher: North Point Press (October 17, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0865477302
ISBN-13: 978-0865477308
I bought this book a while back because it looked interesting. Little did I know that I’d be going to Paris for a short vacation this summer, or that France is a hot-bed of [...]
July 12th, 2007 by alephnaught
Laid off
It finally happened – I got laid off from LaSalle Bank on June 29, 2007. First time in over 20 years. LaSalle Bank has been trying to reduce costs for years, and they’re finally putting out a bunch of people to do that. Will it work? I don’t know.
I probably should have followed events in [...]
July 7th, 2007 by alephnaught
Infidel
Title: Infidel
Author: Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Hardcover: 368 pages
Publisher: Free Press (February 6, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0743289684
ISBN-13: 978-074328968
I was in Amsterdam, on business, when Theo van Gogh was murdered by an Islamic extremist angry over the short film, Submission Part 1. The author of this book, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, wrote the screenplay and was threatened with death as [...]
July 7th, 2007 by alephnaught
Small Pieces Loosely Joined: A Unified Theory of the Web
Title: Small Pieces Loosely Joined: A Unified Theory of the Web
Author: David Weinberger
Hardcover: 256 pages
Publisher: Perseus Books Group; 1st edition (March 2002)
ISBN: 0738205435
ISBN-13: 978-0738208503
This was the last book I asked my team (and I) to read at work as part of our little internal MBA program. We never got to discuss this one, which [...]
English
July 24th, 2007 by alephnaught