Books

September 16th, 2007 by alephnaught

Tea: The Drink That Changed the World

Title: Tea: The Drink That Changed the World Author: Laura C. Martin Hardcover: 247 pages Publisher: Charles E Tuttle Co (May 15, 2007) Language: English ISBN-10: 0804837244 ISBN-13: 978-0804837248 This was a fun book in the style of Coal and Cod: a nice blend of history, anecdotes and suggestions for usage. Tea comes in three […]

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August 24th, 2007 by alephnaught

Twinkie, Deconstructed: My Journey to Discover How the Ingredients Found in Processed Foods Are Grown, Mined (Yes, Mined), and Manipulated Into What America Eats

Title: Twinkie, Deconstructed: My Journey to Discover How the Ingredients Found in Processed Foods Are Grown, Mined (Yes, Mined), and Manipulated Into What America Eats Author: Steve Ettlinger Hardcover: 304 pages Publisher: Hudson Street Press; 1 edition (March 1, 2007) Language: English ISBN-10: 1594630186 ISBN-13: 978-1594630187 This was a fun book to read – many of […]

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August 15th, 2007 by alephnaught

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

Title: Perfume: The Story of a Murderer Author: Patrick Suskind Paperback: 272 pages Publisher: Vintage (November 7, 2006) Language: English ISBN-10: 0307277763 ISBN-13: 978-0307277763 Aviva and I rented the DVD of the movie based on this book.  I loved it, so I grabbed a copy (with my 15% off birthday coupon) from Borders. This is the story […]

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July 24th, 2007 by alephnaught

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 […]

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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 […]

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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, […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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June 23rd, 2007 by alephnaught

24 Declassified: Vanishing Point (24 Declassified)

Title: 24 Declassified: Vanishing Point (24 Declassified) Author: Marc Cerasini Mass Market Paperback: 336 pages Publisher: HarperEntertainment; Mti edition (February 27, 2007) ISBN-10: 0060842288 ISBN-13: 978-0060842284 Yes, I also read pulp fiction…. I’ve read a bunch of the ian Fleming James Bond books along with Edgar Rice Borrough’s books. I’m hooked on the “24” television […]

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June 10th, 2007 by alephnaught

Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae

Title: Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae Author: Steven Pressfield Paperback: 400 pages Publisher: Bantam; Reprint edition (September 27, 2005) ISBN-10: 055338368X ISBN-13: 978-0553383683 I started this one on the way home from Italy, but I was already reading a book on the train (my previous blog entry), so this […]

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