Steve Jobs is a fantastic biography by Walter Isaacson. He explores the growth of the personal computer industry (and of course the MP3 music player industry, cell phones, tablets and everything that Apple has had a part in) in a way that is interesting and completely readable. I have to make it a 5-Star Read,…
Category Archives: Biography
Unbroken
Louie Zamperini was a bit of a scoundrel as a kid. An accomplished neighborhood thief, he would “run like mad” while shopkeepers chased after him. His running skills earned him a trip to the 1936 Olympics where he didn’t medal but garnered the attention of Adolf Hitler. Several years later he found himself in the…
Rob Lowe: Stories I Only Tell My Friends
I was a teen in the 80′s, so of course I’m a fan of St. Elmos Fire. The West Wing is probably my favorite show of all time. So though I’m not generally a fan of the celebrity memoir, when I saw the buzz about Rob Lowe’s new book, and saw that he had even…
Treasures from the Attic: The Extraordinary Story of Anne Frank’s Family
The product description says it best: An old lady, an antiques dealer, dies in Basel, Switzerland. Her devoted daughter-in-law finally steels herself to do what all families must in the aftermath of a death – she heads upstairs to the attic to sort through the old lady’s effects. But this wasn’t just any old lady,…
The Blind Side: Books on Screen
The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game is a book by Michael Lewis. Yes, it does feature Michael Oher, the guy who everyone came to know and love as we watched him overcome obstacles after some care from the Tuohy family, but only as a concrete example of a left tackle, which the position that…
Lombardi on Broadway: Books on Screen Stage
A good biography (in my humble little opinion) should contain several elements: A sense of what made this person remarkable — assuming that the reason that their life is chronicled is because they have something to share, some personal revelations that tell me more about who this person is outside of his or her public…
Books on Screen: Let the Great World Spin/Man on Wire
Several months ago, I listened to the audiobook of Colum Mcann’s Let the Great World Spin, a novel which shares the story of several different characters, specifically their responses to the wire walking that Philippe Petit’s unsanctioned high wire walk between the twin towers in 1974. Immediately, I was pulled in by Colum McCann’s writing…
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