Best of 2016

Best-of lists signify another year is coming to a close. People feel a need to sort and order things to make room for what is to come. Or something like that. So here is an assorted list of best new things I found in 2016. Things can be anything, as long as it was new to me in […]

Trump – The Art of the Deal

In 2004 I picked up this book about Donald J. Trump. Published in 1987, it is a story about the then just 40 year old’s’ insane real estate successes. And I was genuinely interested. From what I knew then, Trump was the poster child of decadent 80’s Manhattan mega fortune makers. But around the same time his TV show […]

My January timeline

I’ve always loved timelines. Visually seeing where things are in time resonates pretty strongly with me. This love goes back to my earliest memories of the dentists’ office where a huge year-round calendar hung on the wall. It had 12 distinct vertical columns and every day had its own little box. Maybe it’s because of the physical […]

On Writing – Stephen King

This weekend I read On Writing – A memoir of the Craft by Stephen King – something I should have done 10 years ago. This book is not a work of fiction as you might expect from mr. King but rather it is the accumulation of his thoughts on writing (well!). I don’t plan on writing fiction, […]

Masters of Doom

On my last vacation I finally got around to reading Masters of Doom by David Kushner. This book from 2003 keeps popping up every now and again and people always rave about it. I put it on my Amazon wish list years ago (which holds 50 books atm). But recently I came across it again, so it […]

Dit kan niet waar zijn – Onder bankiers

Er is de laatste tijd veel te doen om het nieuwste boek van Joris Luyendijk. Het boek domineert de bestseller lijsten, en de schrijver duikt op in allerlei TV programma’s. Maar dat niet alleen, mensen uit onverwachte hoeken raden me plotseling het boek aan. Om dat vóór te zijn en zelf er iets van te vinden heb ik het […]

Waging Heavy Peace – Neil Young (2012)

Verwacht geen chronologische verhandelingen wanneer iemand als Neil Young zelf in de pen klimt om zijn biografie te schrijven. Verwacht wel een heleboel namen van mensen waar hij niet zonder had gekund, de een met nog meer talent dan de ander. Namedropping alsof het een Oscar speech is. Maar in die onslaught van namen is […]