The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis
Coach: Lessons on the Game of Life by Michael Lewis
Moneyball: The Art of Wining an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis
The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game by Michael Lewis.
Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World by Michael Lewis
Home Game: An Accidental Guide to Fatherhood by Michael Lewis
The New New Thing : a Silicon Valley story by Michael Lewis
Next : the Future Just Happened by Michael Lewis
You Can Be a Stock Market Genius by Joel Greenblatt
Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan
The Little Bookroom guide to New York City with children : play, eat, shop / Angela Hederman and Michael Berman ; photographer
The Complete Guide to Microwave Cooking by Carol Bowen
Hiro's Library Books:
A camping spree with Mr. Magee by Chris Van Dusen
The startling story of the stolen statue by Tony Abbott ; illustrated by Colleen Madden
The League of Unexceptional Children : when average calls by Gitty Daneshvari
Owen Foote, mighty scientist by Stephanie Greene ; illustrated by Cat Bowman
Trick or trap by R.L. Stine
The streets of Panic Park by R.L. Stine
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The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World by Alan Greenspan
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Most of the numbers and stockbroker terms that swirled around my head went undefined, but I got that individual greed is bad and rich people are never really punished. The writing is good however, and I found myself checking out everything written by Michael Lewis. So I read a lot about subjects that I have absolutely no interest in, such as baseball, football, sports in general and the financial world, and even enjoyed it. The personal narratives were what made the books pleasurable to read. The Stock Market book by Joel Greenblatt was checked out only because of it's mention by Dr. Michael Burry in the Big Short. For someone who knows nothing about the stock market, it was too much for me to digest. Even though the writing was good, using humor and understandable metaphors, I gave up on it in the 4th chapter.
The Blind Side was a story I was already familiar with, haven seen the tear-jerker movie starring Sandra Bullock. But beyond the film, the book goes on to show the class differences and race relationships in the south, uses football (and sports) as a way for black kids to get out of their poor situations. It is a book about more than just football, but economics and history of our nation.
"Leigh Anne Tuohy was trying to do for one boy what economists had been trying to do, with little success, for less developed countries for the last fifty years. Kick him (Michael Oher) out of one growth path and into another. Jump-start him. She had already satisfied his most basic needs: food, clothing, shelter, transportation, and health care. "
Leigh Anne Tuohy was also finding things out about education that studies never could show before:
"She knew the literature and knew that studies of the effects of environment and nurture on mental development tend to create two study groups, the haves and the have-nots. 'The have-nots learn whatever words they happen to hear on TV the haves hear a million different words by age of three'. But you only get to compare the two groups. You almost never see a case where the subject moves from one group to the other. "
Moneyball was not so much one narrative about Billy Beane but read like a lot of short essays on baseball, statistics, Bill James (the writer of the Baseball Abstracts), history of the sport along side a biography of Billy Beane, the GM for the Oakland As. I found myself skipping around quite a bit and in the end skimmed a lot of it.
Lastly, I read his insights on being a father. Funny from the male point of view and a lot of funny metaphors of parenting as finance and of course sports. The book started off as a diary of the family's move to Paris, and soon became similar in my mind to Adam Gopnik's Paris memoir.
Lewis reads like Malcolm Gladwell and often the two can be seen blurbing each other on the back covers. A lot of the books, whether it be about finance or sports, read like Outliers, in that success is not just about skill but on timing, luck, and the odd trajectory of events that the characters find themselves in their lives. Lewis is at his best when describing a culminating scene, whether the As win their 20th game in a row, or as a child he throws the winning pitch in this little league game, when Michael Oher runs like hell with great strength to ehlp the team win, etc...The narrative is wonderful to read as Lewis tells many of the stories from the first person point of view, and as a reader, I can really feel like I was at the scene. This is huge, since I have no interest in baseball, football or the financial market.
This month of reading about things I would never read about has even found me skimming the Sports and Business pages of the Times. Thus going to show that interest in any topic can come from a great story teller.
And lastly: Chinese Chick Lit
light beach reading- though haven't gotten to a beach yet.
"Leigh Anne Tuohy was trying to do for one boy what economists had been trying to do, with little success, for less developed countries for the last fifty years. Kick him (Michael Oher) out of one growth path and into another. Jump-start him. She had already satisfied his most basic needs: food, clothing, shelter, transportation, and health care. "
Leigh Anne Tuohy was also finding things out about education that studies never could show before:
"She knew the literature and knew that studies of the effects of environment and nurture on mental development tend to create two study groups, the haves and the have-nots. 'The have-nots learn whatever words they happen to hear on TV the haves hear a million different words by age of three'. But you only get to compare the two groups. You almost never see a case where the subject moves from one group to the other. "
Moneyball was not so much one narrative about Billy Beane but read like a lot of short essays on baseball, statistics, Bill James (the writer of the Baseball Abstracts), history of the sport along side a biography of Billy Beane, the GM for the Oakland As. I found myself skipping around quite a bit and in the end skimmed a lot of it.
Lastly, I read his insights on being a father. Funny from the male point of view and a lot of funny metaphors of parenting as finance and of course sports. The book started off as a diary of the family's move to Paris, and soon became similar in my mind to Adam Gopnik's Paris memoir.Lewis reads like Malcolm Gladwell and often the two can be seen blurbing each other on the back covers. A lot of the books, whether it be about finance or sports, read like Outliers, in that success is not just about skill but on timing, luck, and the odd trajectory of events that the characters find themselves in their lives. Lewis is at his best when describing a culminating scene, whether the As win their 20th game in a row, or as a child he throws the winning pitch in this little league game, when Michael Oher runs like hell with great strength to ehlp the team win, etc...The narrative is wonderful to read as Lewis tells many of the stories from the first person point of view, and as a reader, I can really feel like I was at the scene. This is huge, since I have no interest in baseball, football or the financial market.
This month of reading about things I would never read about has even found me skimming the Sports and Business pages of the Times. Thus going to show that interest in any topic can come from a great story teller.
And lastly: Chinese Chick Lit
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