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The Informant
by lz in Reading Archive on 31Jul2008
Over the past week, I've been lugging this 600+ page book around the city, sneaking glimpses at it whenever I could, in waiting rooms and during lunch breaks, wishing that this week's busy social calendar didn't get in the way of my devouring this book. Last night, I stayed up...
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Resource Wars
by lz in Reading Archive on 23Jul2008
It all boils down to oil and water. Although the two elements don't mix well, they do combine as necessary but limited resources which the 21st century needs for physical and economic survival. This was a fantastic, pre-9/11 look at the global situation, which accurately predicts the US invasion of...
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NYTimes blogger lists the best business books, and I'm no snob, I'll give them a whirl! Expect to see several of these reviewed in the coming weeks. His list and comments, in no particular order: “Liar’s Poker,” by Michael Lewis (even though I’ve since become convinced that the anecdote that...
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Essay collection curated by City Lights detailing the history of San Francisco's growth and political bent. Filled with good stuff, from articles on the horrible "weeding" done at the SF public library to fit into the new building with fancy computer equipment that quickly went out of date, to an...
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A beautiful and quick read; condenses the 3 year siege of Sarajevo in the 1990s into a month of fiction. True stories inspire main plot points, like the cellist who watches 22 of his friends and neighbors die when a shell lands on them whilst waiting in a line for...
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"Just be different," Athena tells us. This spiritual character loses herself in dance and calligraphy, filling up her blank spaces with activity, and eventually discovering the Mother spirit, then teaching people how they could find the Mother as well. An orphan adopted in Lebanon, daughter of gypsies, brought up in...
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