Archive for June, 2008
112 Miles to the Pin by Duncan Lennard
June 28th, 2008Title: 112 Miles to the Pin
Author: Duncan Lennard
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing (2007)
As you can probably judge by the title, this is a book about golf. But not just any golf. No, this is about playing golf in the weirdest, strangest, most extreme places in the world. I don’t know that you have to [...]
Author Interview: Elizabeth Emerson Hancock
June 25th, 2008A little while ago, I reviewed Trespassers Will Be Baptized by Elizabeth Emerson Hancock. As you can tell from my review, I really enjoyed it. Luckily for me, and you, Elizabeth agreed to a short e-mail interview. Hopefully you will enjoy reading her answers to my questions…no matter how bad my questions [...]
Better by Atul Gawande
June 23rd, 2008Title: Better
Author: Atal Gawande
Publisher: Metropolitan Books (2007)
Atul Gawande is a really impressive person. He is a general and endocrine surgeon at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. He is an associate professor at Harvard Medical School and a writer for The New Yorker and Slate. Judging by his photographs he is about 22 [...]
Newjack by Ted Conover
June 17th, 2008Title: Newjack
Author: Ted Conover
Publisher: Random House (2000)
DeNiro-esque.
Ted Conover is one really impressive writer who I kind of see as the Robert DeNiro of writing (note: I mean “Taxi Driver” DeNiro, before he stopped caring and mailing in his roles). I say this because he really throws himself into his books like DeNiro used to do [...]
LOP News - Carnivals and Guest Posts
June 12th, 2008Just wanted to update you on some recent goings on here at LOP. Back in May, my review of The Game Changers by A.G. Lafley & Ram Charan was selected to be included in Brian Oates’ Business Books Blog Carnival. It’s exciting to be involved in the Carnivals…as this was my first one! [...]
Trespassers Will Be Baptized by Elizabeth Emerson Hancock
June 8th, 2008Title: Trespassers Will Be Baptized
Author: Elizabeth Emerson Hancock
Publisher: Center Street Publishing (2008)
Delightful!
I spent about 2 days trying to figure out a more manly way to sum up this book in one word. Alas, I could not. Is “Wicked Awesome” hyphenated? Wicked-awesome. Yeah…I’ll count that. This book was wicked-awesome.
Trespassers Will Be Baptized: The Unordained Memoir of [...]
Postcard History Series by Arcadia Publishing
June 5th, 2008Title: Postcard History Series
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
I’m going to do this one a little differently than I normally do. The nice folks at Arcadia Publishing sent me a couple of their books to check out. They aren’t your typical books, so I have decided to do the three Postcard History Series books they sent me as [...]
