Archive for the 'Books' Category


The Nate Silver Book-1

“On the Edge – The Art of Risking Everything”: https://rb.gy/gauj90 No one is going to read this. It’s the new “A Brief History of Time,” you know, the Steven Hawking book everybody bought in the eighties and then found out it was too dense to comprehend, never mind put in the time and effort to […]

Anita de Monte Laughs Last

https://shorturl.at/cZW5N This book is confusing, and for that reason I’m loath to recommend it. But it really resonated with me, there were some universal truths that stuck out, like: “To get to the destination your inner compass has been driving you back to, screaming it was home, only to discover that you don’t really belong.” […]

The God Of The Woods

https://shorturl.at/Y8UHr Ultimately this is a mystery, but it doesn’t read like one. First and foremost it is set in a summer camp. Where I spent some of my best years. And that’s why I started reading it, and on that note it worked, but “The God of the Woods” is so much more. Generally speaking […]

Long Island Compromise

https://rb.gy/tkiln8 I didn’t realize Taffy Brodesser-Akner was writing the Great American Novel until about halfway through. Before that, I was reading in fits and starts. I thought it was an out of control comic novel, until I realized it was not. And then I was driven to finish it. You won’t have the same experience […]