Have you ever gotten lost on a park trail? It is remarkably easy, in State and National Parks, or along the Pacific Crest or the Adirondack Trail, to step off the known path, just for a moment and not be able to find your way back to the path. Even seasoned hikers get turned around. …
Continue reading 365 Books: Trail of the Lost by Andrea Lankford
After Harry Potter artificially inflated sales for several years running, bookstores needed a way to demonstrate continued YOY growth against such unrealistic numbers. Some of them embraced certain books and tried to drum up enough enthusiasm internally that booksellers would generate WOM buzz and the books would catch on fire. So when a colleague came …
How many steps have you walked today? New Yorkers, on average, walk between 6-10,000 steps per day, which is much higher than most places. For many years, I dragged this average down. When I needed to increase my exercise levels, I started by taking the subway 3 stops instead of 4, and walking that extra …
At one point, my father was stationed in Turkey and, for Christmas that year, he sent me a) a puzzle ring he had bought at the market; b) a pair of harem pants and a head scarf; and c) a copy of this book. The book is written by an earlier member of the Air …
Continue reading 365 Books: Scotch and Holy Water by John D. Tumpane
I picked this book up at the Walla Walla annual book fair which, I am sure, is called something else entirely, something involving the word Whitman. You can look it up; it's held in the ballroom at the Marcus Whitman hotel which, until recently, was the the tallest building in Walla Walla. The book fair …
Continue reading 365 Books: Hitman Anders and the Meaning of It All by Jonas Jonasson
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