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I'm a husband, father, author, cyclist, sailor, travel addict, and Silicon Valley software engineer. I've written 4 books and actively review books on this blog. Comments on this blog are aggressively moderated against link-spam and rude or meaningless comments.

Friday, October 18, 2013

Review: Wheat Belly

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My doctor actually recommended  Wheat Belly , or I wouldn't have picked it up. Cure Your Child With Food , for instance, already mention...

Review: Pyle Waterproof MP3 Player with embedded headphones

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I've been forced to swim a lot recently, and have come to the conclusion that lap swimming is the most boring sport in the universe. Th...
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Wednesday, October 16, 2013

Review: The Story of The Human Body

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The Story Of The Human Body is written by evolutionary biologist and Harvard Professor Daniel Lieberman. It's not just a boring history...
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Tuesday, October 08, 2013

Review: Skating to where the puck was

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Skating to Where the Puck Was is part of William Bernstein's series called "Investing for Adults". I did not consider the pre...
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Friday, October 04, 2013

Review: 3M Command Strips

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I never really was into hanging photos or artwork on the walls, even photos I took myself. It wasn't until recently that I figured out w...
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Thursday, October 03, 2013

Review: Cure Your Child With Food

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Cure Your Child With Food is a book about nutrition and the impact nutrition has on children's health and growth. It's an interesti...
Tuesday, October 01, 2013

Advanced Reader Copies of my next book now available

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It's called How to Interview A Financial Advisor . It's a short book, about 50 pages, and the first round of beta only has 20 copies...
Thursday, September 26, 2013

Review: Aqua Sphere Kayenne Goggle

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I've been suffering from some lower back pain due to lifting my toddler at a time when he was struggling. The pain's been bad enough...

Review: Invisiblity

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Invisibility is a young-adult novel by Andrea Creme and David Levithan. Levithan, you'll recall, is the author of Every Day , and the v...
Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Review: Six Earlier Days

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Six Earlier Days is a short prequel to David Leviathan's novel, Every Day . It's a light fast read, but doesn't have the heft o...

Review: Deep Risk

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William Bernstein has written a new series of short books titled "investing for adults". Deep Risk is one of the series. The book...
Saturday, September 21, 2013

Review: The Sports Gene

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The Sports Gene is not just a book about athletes. It's also a thorough debunking of books such as Talent is Overrated . If you were to...
Wednesday, September 04, 2013

Review: Naked Statistics

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Naked Statistics is a non-technical introduction to statistics. In terms of explaining the science of statistics to laymen, it does a passa...

Review: Cold Days

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Cold Days is the latest available novel in the Dresden Files series. Like the previous couple of books in the series, you are well advised ...
Friday, August 23, 2013

Review: Ghost Story

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Ghost Story is book 13 of the Dresden Files. It is a direct sequel from Changes , and if you haven't read that book you'll not get ...

Re-Read: Ender's Game

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This is my third time reading Ender's Game , and I've read the previous incarnation of the novel (which began as a short story in 19...
Friday, August 16, 2013

Review: Changes

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Changes is book #12 in the Dresden files. In many ways, the series reminds me of a RPG game. As the characters get more and more powerful, ...
Sunday, August 11, 2013

Review: Turn Coat

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Turn Coat is book 11 of the Dresden Files. The series finally comes full circle, as Dresden now has to bail out the very person who was his...
Wednesday, August 07, 2013

Review: Small Favor

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Small Favor is book 10 of the Dresden files. It is so far the best book yet. It's action packed, exciting, and is the equivalent of a s...
Saturday, August 03, 2013

Review: Neptune's Brood

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Neptune's Brood is set in the same world as Saturn's Children , but is not a direct sequel in style, tone, or humor. This is a feat...
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