Books I've read that are worth reporting on
(The intended implication here is that I'm reading a lot of books that are not worth telling about. I read a lot, and sometimes it's junk...
This list is FILO (First In Last Out; the most recently read are listed first).


  • "Mindsets" (non-fiction, which is rare for me). Interesting thoughts about how our beliefs about learning affect our ability to succeed. I'm not through it yet...
  • "The Lovely Bones" by Anne Sebold (?)
    Wow. Tender and sad and touching without being sappy. I laughed, I cried, I stayed up late to finish it.
  • A Jesse Stone novel by Robert Parker, of Spenser fame. Nicely done, quick read, great dialogue - except that it creates unreasonable expectations for my own repartee :-)
  • Several old Agatha Christie books. Always good.
  • "Little Drummer Girl" by John LeCarre. I got a little lost in the politics, but liked the story.
  • "Buffalo Girls" by Larry McCurty of Lonesome Dove fame.
    It's all about Calamity Jane, with whom I share a birthday. Very nicely done.
  • "The Rule of Four" by xx Caldwell and xx ThomasSomething
    Entertaining, probably more so if you know more than I do about Princeton's campus and the fraternity system. They had lots of interesting references to ideas or books in my life.
  • "Let Me Tell You a Story" by John Feinstein,
    about Red Auerbach, centered on these lunches that Red organized once a week.
  • A bunch of others that I'll remember when I stop trying to.