30 Before 30: Read one book/fortnight (6/31) The Toothpaste for Dinner website kept yelling at me to read this book. It’s not literature, but it’s not fluff, either. It’s hilarious and sad and poignant and irreverent. And it’s less than $5 on the Kindle.

30 Before 30: Read one book/fortnight (5/31) I read Guy Kawasaki’s Enchantment: The Art of Changing Hearts, Minds, and Actions on the plane to Columbus, Ohio, and in the airport before flying back. It could have been my frazzled and/or exhausted mind, but the book seemed to me not unlike The Thank You Economy—so much [...]

30 Before 30: Read one book/fortnight (4/31) Is it a rule that a semi-autobiographical novel set in Knoxville has to begin with a prologue written about some italicized dreamlike state? First James Agee’s A Death in the Family, then Suttree. It is a long, dense tome, and true to McCarthy’s style the dialogue is not [...]

30 Before 30: Read one book/fortnight (3/31) I bought the Kindle edition of The Thank You Economy after Laura raved about it on Twitter. If you’re looking for a more substantive review, I recommend reading hers. It’s a good book—solid, encouraging, motivating. I think I went into it hoping for more case studies, rather than [...]

30 Before 30: Read one book/fortnight (2/31) I purchased Poke the Box because the Kindle edition was on sale for a dollar. The book opens with an anecdote about Nashville’s Mocha Club, which is probably the only reason I kept reading as long as I did. I would be the person in the crowd that [...]

30 Before 30: Read one book/fortnight (1/31) I knew I was going to buy Bossypants the moment I finished reading the excerpt “Confessions of a Juggler” in the New Yorker in February. Late twenties in Nashville isn’t too different from forty in New York, so I’d be lying if I didn’t admit that on some [...]