Tuesday April 29 2014
My latest favorite gizmo is a kindle paperwhite @ $139. This is what all so called tablets want to be when they grow up. It downloads flawlessly from amazon. I cannot say the same for my iPad with a Kindle app. For a book in color, like an art history book, I am seriously considering a kindle Fire HDX as it would work well downloading from Amazon I think.
I read a front page WSJ story about Russell Blake a self pblished author. And yes that was published on my blog.
He has several series and I have now read at least one of each Jet about a female assassin who is more comic book than reality based, Assasin Series about a guy for hire in Mexico, also more comic book than real, and Black a sort of modern day Sam Spade. The dialog between Black and his admin assist is hilarious. So I admit to reading some fiction lately thinking that with all the
Stuff I write on the blog and what not
Is there any way I could channel that into something creative to make a buck?
Blake als o has a satire in getting published, how to sell a gazillion books on the net, which is really funny, and a really nice ode to his now deceased Lobo, a rescue dog, An Angel with Fur.
I suggest you check out
It lists all sorts of dirt cheap or free books. I have downloaded both fiction and non fiction but need to move on to the non fiction.
In the meantime I suggest den of Theives by James Stewart
only a penny plus shipping used in paper or hardback and I am sure the Alamo library has it. It is the non fiction story of the milken boskey insider junk bond take over scheme from the 1980s. this is the rare non fiction book that reads like fiction. And you will learn a great deal about finance and markets. The first half is finance, the second is legal on how the govt snares all of them.
If you are into biography, it is hard to beat A History of the American People by Paul Johnson.
again dirt cheap plus shipping. This is the real history of the United States and should be required reading for all high school students. Especially those headed to college. Long but fascinating, try to knock off 50 pages at at a time and you will not get bored.
And The Nearly Free University and the Emerging Economy is more about economy than university but I would really love to have a group read this and then conduct a saturday retreat to talk about it and the obvious ideas he brings up
If you have Netflix I have found a few recent gems. htat will be the subject of another post.
cheers
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Professor Elam 
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