Books about people finding faith can be either annoying or compelling. I’ve rarely found a middle ground with such things. Joan Ball’s Flirting with Faith: My Spiritual Journey from Atheism to a Faith-Filled Life (amazon affiliate link) is the latter. It was a great story of an imperfect person finding a strange-but-compelling link to her faith. It has notes of Anne Lamott, or rather, that’s pretty much the person we non-religious readers can think of at times like this. It’s on the same bookshelf as Donald Miller’s Blue Like Jazz.

It’s not everyone’s cup of tea.…

I just used PopShops to build an “Escape Velocity Bookshelf.” (Can’t see it below? CLICK HERE). You’ll recall that I’ve been very big on escape velocity (the ability to leave a situation that isn’t helpful or desired) for a little while now. It’s actually my big thing for 2010-2011 (and maybe beyond). My goal is to help people humanize business, and find their escape velocity.

In saying this, I’m talking about either adding a few bucks to your bottom line, and/or people who break out of their employee role and take on an owner’s view of the world.…

Because of Dadomatic, I get books sent to me because I’m a dad. Two of the books I received recently were The Modern Dad’s Dilemma (amazon affiliate link) and The Book of Dads: Essays on the Joys, Perils, and Humiliations of Fatherhood (amazon affiliate link). Both were interesting, and both had weird beginnings that made me think I wasn’t going to like them, but I ended up liking both. You’ll see a bit of my trepidation in my video book review. Don’t get me wrong. Both books are solid. See what you think.

People always ask which camera I used to shoot my video. I use the Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX3 (that’s a review of the camera).…

I don’t do a lot of leisure reading, but I blazed through Walter John Williams’ This Is Not a Game (amazon affiliate link), a book with an adventurous plot woven around alternate reality gaming and social networking (mostly message boards). You know, there are some really poignant and interesting points in the book, it reads fast (in the action sense) and there are puzzles to consider. I never did go see if any of the details resolved to anything “real” online, a la the great works of J.C. Hutchins, who is a god in the space of weaving his stories into the web and back into a book, but I suspect Williams might have done some neato things, if you want to go digging.…