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Not Without Hope

Not Without Hope

March 17, 2010 | 1 Comments

On February 28, 2009 four men left Clearwater Pass on what was supposed to be a day-long fishing expedition. On board were two football players, Corey Smith and Marquis Cooper, along with their personal trainer Nick Schuyler and Schuyler’s friend …

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Son of Hamas

March 16, 2010 | 3 Comments
Son of Hamas

(You’ll have to excuse the rare double post between 10MillionWords and my blog. This book perfectly fit both sites)
From his earliest days, Mosab Hasson Yousef had a view of the inner workings of Hamas. The son of one its founders, …

This Week’s Bestsellers

March 13, 2010 | 1 Comments
This Week’s Bestsellers

And they’re back with a vengeance. After several weeks of near-stasis with only one book per week being added to the New York Times list of bestsellers, this week’s list came as something of a shock. Six new books made …

 

Anticancer

March 12, 2010 | 11 Comments
Anticancer

Of all the books to make their way onto the bestseller list this year, Anticancer is the one I’ve wanted to read the least. That explains why it’s been hanging around my “list of things to do” for weeks now …

Making Toast

March 11, 2010 | 0 Comments
Making Toast

“Amy Elizabeth Rosenblatt Solomon, thirty-eight years old, pediatrician, wife of hand surgeon Harrison Solomon, and mother of three, collapsed on her treadmill in the downstairs playroom at home. ‘Jessie and Sammy discovered her,’ our oldest son, Carl, told us on …

 

10MillionWords: February Round-Up

March 9, 2010 | 1 Comments
10MillionWords: February Round-Up

So I am a little bit late with this round-up. Truth be told, I just plain forgot about it. I’ll add it to my calendar so I am a bit more timely with my March round-up.
There were 9 books added …

This Week’s Bestsellers

March 6, 2010 | 1 Comments
This Week’s Bestsellers

For the third consecutive week, there has been just a single addition to the New York Times list of bestsellers. And that works well since, for the third consecutive week, I have not caught up. This week, though, I am …

 

The Quants

March 5, 2010 | 2 Comments
The Quants

Along with On the Brink and Too Big to Fail, The Quants is the third book on the list of bestsellers this year that has attempted to make sense of the recent economic downturn. I suspect it will not be …

On the Brink

March 2, 2010 | 5 Comments
On the Brink

You had to know that the ongoing economic downturn was going to generate more than its fair share of books. For years to come the events and all that led to them will be studied and analyzed, looking for patterns, …

 

This Week’s Bestsellers

February 27, 2010 | 1 Comments
This Week’s Bestsellers

Last week I said that I had been given a reprieve. With only one new book added to the list of bestsellers, I finally had a chance to catch up. Well, I did quite well, even if not spectacularly so. …

Willie Mays

February 26, 2010 | 1 Comments
Willie Mays

Though biography/memoir is the leading genre in this 10MillionWords project, few that I’ve read in this category have been traditional biographies. Most have, instead, been memoirs and often memoirs of celebrities who, honestly, will never be worthy of a full-length …