Tag: books

  • Penguin Random House Suing Florida Over Book Bans

    Penguin Random House Suing Florida Over Book Bans

    Penguin Random House, the publisher of The Bluest Eye, and other books that have been banned in Florida , is suing a school district in the state over Ron DeSantis’s book ban. Penguin Random House and Florida parents sue school district over book bans

  • Books of 2019

    Books of 2019

    Happy New Year, and new decade! I started last year with many ambitious goals, and I failed most of them. I intended to read at least 36 books in 2019 and only completed 14, oh well. For those interested these are the books I read over 2019: Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass…

  • 10% Happier, Book Review

    10% Happier, Book Review

    I want to call this book “life-changing”, but I’m not going to because reading it didn’t change my life. What I’m trying to say is, the book has the capacity to be life-changing. If someone handed me this book five years ago, for example, I think it would have changed my life. The problem is,…

  • Most Marketing Books are Crap

    Most Marketing Books are Crap

    Most marketing books are crap, and broadly speaking, most business books suck too. These books are mostly written by people selling consulting, or worse, some productized service. While I’m critical of most business books, I’m focusing this beating on marketing books only. Out of a sampling of books on marketing; it’s common to see a…