I wanted to share a link here to a good blog post on leading your peers from an author and speaker whose work I admire: John Maxwell. Check out his thoughts on being the kind of leader with integrity and compassion who can lead her peers because they trust her. Leading Your Peers by John… Continue reading Leading your peers
I spent 4 hours on a bus back and forth to New York last week which gave me plenty of time to read. Here are brief thoughts on two books I finished on that trip – numbers 25 and 26 for the year for those of you counting in the home audience. First, a relatively… Continue reading Two more books
My 24th book of the year is another good graphic novel from Image Comics; this one is entitled Alex + Ada and I read volume 1 (available for free by the way if you sign up for a 30-day trial of Comixology Unlimited). If you’re a long-time reader of this blog you know I’m a… Continue reading Alex + Ada
A brief note on my 23rd book for the year, a collection of essays from John Brooks entitled Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street. Brooks, who wrote for The New Yorker among other publications, delves into some of the big business stories of the 1960s in these well written reflections… Continue reading Business Adventures
When was the last time you read a comic book – or any book for that matter – that left you feeling better about your life and the world? When have you read something that wasn’t just beautifully illustrated and grippingly told but that also brightened your outlook? My 22nd read of 2016 did just… Continue reading Low volume 1: The Delirium of Hope
My 21st read for 2016 was another graphic novel, this time from Marvel’s Max line. The book focuses on a character well known in both the comic book and cinematic universes: Nick Fury. However this story presents a slightly different view in a slightly different ‘universe;’ here there is no SHIELD (Fury works with the… Continue reading Fury: My War Gone By
I finished my 20th book this weekend: the audio version of JRR Tolkien’s The Return of the King. This book wraps up the Lord of the Rings trilogy and concludes the wider tale begun in The Hobbit. I have read all these books a few times a listened to the audio books three times as… Continue reading The Return of the King
Massive. Sprawling. Elaborate. At times hilarious, at times insightful, at times hard to put down, and at times almost impossible to follow. Moving in its depiction of human relationships and personal struggles, prescient in its portrayal of an American society amusing itself to death under the hapless eye of a befuddled former media star turned… Continue reading Infinite Jest
A quick note on my 18th read for the year, TW Hunt’s short book The Mind Of Christ. In many ways the books is a meditation on Philippians 2:5-11 which begins with the words, “Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus.” The book, which I’ve been reading slowly for the… Continue reading The Mind of Christ
My 17th ‘read’ for the year is another audio book: The Two Towers by JRR Tolkien. This is the second book in the Lord of the Rings trilogy and tells the middle section of two parallel stories. Such a structure suffers from the typical problems of a book in the middle of a story: neither… Continue reading The Two Towers
