Author, Blogger, Book Designer
Sometimes I stare at my growing To-Be-Read stack and wonder how many books it would take to break a 3/4" wooden shelf. I fear that I might wake up one night to the crashing sound of dust -- that one speck that breaks the threshold of my shelf's resistive strength and causes the entire mass [...]
I lost today ... and still won. I learned this morning that I did not make the list of finalists for the inaugural Whistler Independent Book Awards. I had been thrilled to find my name on the list of 10 fiction nominees -- the "longlist" -- for what some are calling the first major awards for self-published authors [...]
I have to stop reading masterpieces. No, that would be silly. I just need to remember that each author's masterpiece is their own unique creation, and that I am not John Irvine or Anthony Doerr ... or Lawrence Hill. All of these men wrote what I would consider "masterpieces", yet my three recent reads from [...]
I really like Robert Reich, and as far as economists go he offers a breath of fresh air. Saving Capitalism is an easy and informative read, and it deepened my understanding of many of the challenges we face today -- particularly the causes behind our ever-widening disparity between rich and poor, and the self-perpetuating link between [...]
Mark of Words 