Archive for the ‘Tips and Fun Stuff’ Category
Friday, October 16th, 2009
Our peripatetic spies spotted the following books being read by their fellow travelers this week. We decided just for fun to try categorizing the readers by age and gender to see if we could spot any patterns. This is what we came up with. Any comments?
20-Something Women
Caprice Crane – Stupid and Contagious
Ceanne DeRohan – Feelings Matter: Keys to the Unexplored Self
Edith Wharton – House of Mirth
20-Something Men
Steve Berry – The Templar Legacy
Dan Brown – The Lost Symbol
30-Something Women
Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin – Three Cups of Tea
Haruki Murakami – The Wind Up Bird Chronicle
30-Something Men
Edward Abbey – The Journey Home
Middle-Aged Women
Janet Dailey – Santa in a Stetson
Jerry & Esther Hicks – Ask and It is Given
Brandon Massey – Cornered
Al Ries & Jack Trout – Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind
Middle-Aged Men
John Grogan – The Longest Trip Home
Mark Harris – Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of New Hollywood
Alice Sebold – The Lovely Bones
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Friday, October 9th, 2009
Our peripatetic spies spotted the following books being read by their fellow travelers this week. We decided just for fun to try categorizing the readers by age and gender to see if we could spot any patterns. This is what we came up with. Any comments?
20-Something Women
Jon Krakauer – Into Thin Air
Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child – Thunderhead
Lisa See – Peony in Love
20-Something Men
Dean Koontz – Frankenstein: Dead and Alive
30-Something Women
John Grisham – The Appeal
Rachel Kushner – Telex from Cuba
Audrey Niffenegger – The Time Traveler’s Wife
30-Something Men
Robert Ludlum – The Parsifal Mosaic
Michael Pollan – The Omnivore’s Dilemma
Middle-Aged Women
John Grisham – The Associate
Haruki Murakami – After Dark
Middle-Aged Men
Tom Clancy – Red Storm Rising
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Thursday, September 24th, 2009
Our peripatetic spies spotted the following books being read by their fellow travelers this week. We decided just for fun to try categorizing the readers by age and gender to see if we could spot any patterns. This is what we came up with. Any comments?
20-Something Women
Kelley Armstrong – Bitten
Dan Brown – The Lost Symbol
Charlaine Harris – A Touch of Dead
Richard Kiyosaki – Rich Dad, Poor Dad
20-Something Men
Dan Brown – The Lost Symbol
30-Something Women
Yann Martel – Life of Pi
30-Something Men
Eric Flint – 1635
Robert Ludlum – The Prometheus Deception
Middle-Aged Women
Glenn Beck – The Christmas Sweater
Dan Brown – The Lost Symbol
Esther Hicks – The Vortex
Jonathan Kellerman – The Web
Middle-Aged Men
Dan Brown – The Lost Symbol
Philip Norman – John Lennon: The Life
James Patterson – First to Die
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Thursday, September 17th, 2009
Our peripatetic spies spotted the following books being read by their fellow travelers this week. We decided just for fun to try categorizing the readers by age and gender to see if we could spot any patterns. This is what we came up with. Any comments?
20-Something Women
Charles G. Koch – The Science of Success
Jodi Picoult – Vanishing Acts
20-Something Men
Michael Lewis – The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game
30-Something Women
Linda Watson – Vogue Fashion
30-Something Men
Malcolm Gladwell – Blink
Jeff Sharlet – The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power
Wilbur Smith – Birds of Prey
Middle-Aged Women
Clive Cussler – Medusa
Jonathan Kellerman – The Web
Middle-Aged Men
Darian North – Bone Deep
Richard Russo – Bridge of Sighs
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Friday, September 11th, 2009
Our peripatetic spies spotted the following books being read by their fellow travelers this week. We decided just for fun to try categorizing the readers by age and gender to see if we could spot any patterns. This is what we came up with. Any comments?
20-Something Women
Michael Chabon – The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
F. Scott Fitzgerald – The Great Gatsby
Frank Pope – Dragon Sea: A True Tale of Treasure, Archeology, and Greed Off the Coast of Vietnam
20-Something Men
Christopher Hitchens – God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
Raymond Khoury – The Last Templar
30-Something Women
Desiree Day – Cruising
Patricia Highsmith – The Talented Mr. Ripley
Tyler Perry – Don’t Make a Black Woman Take Off Her Earrings: Madea’s Uninhibited Commentaries on Love and Life
Leo Tolstoy – War and Peace
30-Something Men
Robert B. Cialdini – Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
Valerio Massimo Manfredi & Christine Fedderson Manfredi – Spartan
Middle-Aged Women
Michael Craig – The Professor, the Banker, and the Suicide King: Inside the Richest Poker Game of All Time
Middle-Aged Men
Ted Bell – Tsar
Tom Clancy – Debt of Honor
Jodi Picoult – Nineteen Minutes
Daniel Silva – The Unlikely Spy
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Friday, September 4th, 2009
Our peripatetic spies spotted the following books being read by their fellow travelers this week. We decided just for fun to try categorizing the readers by age and gender to see if we could spot any patterns. This is what we came up with. Any comments?
20-Something Women
LeBron James and Buzz Bissinger – Shooting Stars
Erin McGraw – The Seamstress of Hollywood Boulevard
Ann Patchett – Bel Canto
20-Something Men
Aravind Adiga – The White Tiger
Richard Dawkins – The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene
30-Something Women
Philippa Gregory – The Other Queen
Norb Vonnegut – Top Producer
30-Something Men
David Halberstam – The Children
Kurt Vonnegut – Cat’s Cradle
Middle-Aged Women
Julian Barnes – A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters
Colleen McCullough – Morgan’s Run
Richard Russo – That Old Cape Magic
Middle-Aged Men
Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson – Paul of Dune
James Patterson – Sail
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Saturday, August 29th, 2009
Our peripatetic spies spotted the following books being read by their fellow travelers this week. We decided just for fun to try categorizing the readers by age and gender to see if we could spot any patterns. This is what we came up with. Any comments?
20-Something Women
Andre Aciman – Call Me By Your Name
David A. Karp – Is It Me or My Meds?: Living with Antidepressants
20-Something Men
Isaac Asimov – Foundation and Empire
David Foster Wallace – Infinite Jest
30-Something Women
Sue Monk Kidd – The Secret Life of Bees
30-Something Men
Adam Langer – Ellington Boulevard
Richard K. Morgan – Woken Furies
Frankie Saggio – Born to the Mob: The True-Life Story of the Only Man to Work for All Five of New York’s Mafia Families
Middle-Aged Women
Wahida Clark – Thug Lovin’
Anna Quindlen – One True Thing
Middle-Aged Men
Cajus Bekker – The Luftwaffe War Diaries
Khaled Hosseini – The Kite Runner
James Rollins – The Last Oracle
Sidney Sheldon – Nothing Lasts Forever
Elderly Individuals
Joan Barfoot – Exit Lines
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Friday, August 21st, 2009
Our peripatetic spies spotted the following books being read by their fellow travelers this week. We decided just for fun to try categorizing the readers by age and gender to see if we could spot any patterns. This is what we came up with. Any comments?
20-Something Women
Steven D. Leavitt & Stephen J. Dubner – Freakonomics
Julie Powell – Julie & Julia
Neil Simon – Come Blow Your Horn
20-Something Men
David Baldacci – Stone Cold
Dan Brown – Angels and Demons
Jeff Pearlman – The Bad Guys Won!
30-Something Women
Jeffery Deaver – The Bone Collector
30-Something Men
Christopher Hitchens – God is Not Great
Barack Obama – The Audacity of Hope
Middle-Aged Women
Aravind Adiga – The White Tiger
Michael Gruber – The Book of Air and Shadows
Danielle Steel – Amazing Grace
Middle-Aged Men
Herbert Asbury – The Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the Underworld
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Saturday, August 15th, 2009
Our peripatetic spies spotted the following books being read by their fellow travelers this week. We decided just for fun to try categorizing the readers by age and gender to see if we could spot any patterns. This is what we came up with. Any comments?
20-Something Women
Marc Gonsalves, Tom Howes, Keith Stansell, & Gary Brozek – Out of Capitivity: Surviving 1,967 Days in the Colombian Jungle
Carolyn Jessop & Laura Palmer – Escape
Carlos Ruiz Zafon – Shadow of the Wind
20-Something Men
Sinclair Lewis – It Can’t Happen Here
Kurt Vonnegut – Cat’s Cradle
30-Something Women
Dan Brown – Digital Fortress
Yann Martel – Life of Pi
30-Something Men
James Rollins – Map of Bones
Middle-Aged Women
Chandler Burr – You or Someone Like You
Jane Green – The Beach House
Richard Russo – That Old Cape Magic
Middle-Aged Men
Dan Brown – Angels and Demons
Joyce Meyer – Me and My Big Mouth
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Friday, August 7th, 2009
Our peripatetic spies spotted the following books being read by their fellow travelers this week. We decided just for fun to try categorizing the readers by age and gender to see if we could spot any patterns. This is what we came up with. Any comments?
20-Something Women
Malcolm Gladwell – Outliers
Khaled Hosseini – A Thousand Splendid Suns
Gabriel Garcia Marquez – Love in the Time of Cholera
20-Something Men
Mark Leyner & Billy Goldberg – Why Do Men Have Nipples?: Hundreds of Questions You’d Only Ask a Doctor After Your Third Martini
J.K. Rowling – Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
30-Something Women
Barry Schwartz – The Paradox of Choice: Why More is Less
30-Something Men
Ben Mezrich – The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebeok: A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal
Craig Nelson – Rocket Men: The Epic Story of the First Men on the Moon
Anne Rice – The Witching Hour
Middle-Aged Women
Michele Dunaway – Bachelor CEO
Middle-Aged Men
Michael Connelly – The Scarecrow
Douglas Preston & Mario Spezi – The Monster of Florence
Phil Town – Rule #1: The Simple Strategy for Successful Investing in Only 15 Minutes a Week!
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