READING
I’ve always been an avid reader… especially when I began going on long expeditions and needed to keep preoccupied during storm days, rest days, loss of sanity days. One of my favorite things to do, still, is going to the library and check out a book. It’s like Christmas morning, especially if I’m fortunate to be the first to read a brand-new book they’ve just acquired.
The reason I’ve decided to start posting books I read is a selfish one. If this gets one person to put down their smartphone, turn off their laptop or TV, and sit for an undisturbed period of time to enjoy a good book, then it’s worth it. The benefits are abundant.
Most books I read have been suggested to me by other readers, admirers, or in magazine reviews. Not every book I read I like… though a majority of those won’t be posted because I just can’t finish them… too boring and won't hold my attention.
Get outside, sit under a tree or pop in a tent, and read.
Skål,
Sean
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August 16, 2019
With all the press this year it being the 50th Anniversary of Woodstock, I too got nostalgic and decided to read the latest book releases this year on the event. Though not yet born in ‘69, the music of that time is what I listen to frequently and have all the Woodsto...
August 14, 2019
Though it’s main hook was regarding the fire that took place in the LA Central Public Library in 1986, and the subsequent case against Harry Peak, an actor blamed for starting the fire, it’s really about a cast of characters that inhabit libraries, those in-charge of L...
July 26, 2019
I chose this book because of
interest in Harper Lee, who after writing ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’, one of most seminal works of fiction in history, never published another book again. What happened? She spent years covering a true-crime story that the book lays out in de...
July 26, 2019
One of the few TV hosts
who actually had something to say that was impactful on the human life. Bourdain was an extraordinary storyteller. I don’t recommend this book though – it’s all social media blurbs posted by chefs and people to a digital site CNN created for fan...
July 13, 2019
A ship from Connecticut
leaves port in 1815, the crew on a trading voyage. They get shipwrecked off the coast of Africa, and eventually get captured by desert nomads and sold into slavery. And then the real insanity begins.. murder, sandstorms, locusts, plagues, starvat...
May 15, 2019
Terrific short stories from storytellers.
Eye-opening and profound. A book you read and grow from as a person… these are my favorite types of books. Hector Black on forgiveness of his daughter’s murderer; Amy Blancolli on the suicide of her husband and the aftermath re...
May 2, 2019
This book covers a topic we should all
practice - humility. Most of what I read I’d already either experienced first-hand from others, try to practice myself, or teach to corporations. Genghis Khan topic was interesting – always a student in ruling and war, his love for...
April 25, 2019
Dubbed as a spiritual path to higher creativity
hits on some basic principles that you’d think would be second nature to us, but in today’s society seems to be missing in many. The principles are based on ‘recovering’ lost standards, and how to go about doing that thro...
April 9, 2019
One of her books in collection of writings
from the 1960s and 70s. My favorite stories were those on her time with the Doors “erotic politicians” while they were in the studio recording; the Getty Museum from 77’ – “the Getty advises us that not much changes… that we a...
April 1, 2019
This story solidifies how easily it is for government officials, who’ve got the security clearance, can get their hands on classified intelligence that could be a serious detriment to the security of the U.S. This happened in early 2000s… a citizen who became a traitor...
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