Now that the holidays and New Years have come and gone, I'm trying this new thing where I read this old school type of content called books. Revolutionary, I know. To start the year off right, I cracked open a book I picked up while in Nashville at Parnassus Books, one that I will fully [...]
While on vacation on Cape Cod, I picked up Eat & Run by Scott Jurek and Steve Friedman, hoping to be able to spend some quiet relaxation time in the hammock reading. It was a nice, pleasant thought, but I should have known better than to think I would have time to read. Once I got back [...]
Last month I wrote a short first-impressions review of The First 20 Minutes by Gretchen Reynolds. Today I wanted to write a follow-up review on my overall thoughts of the book. I think if I were to have to apply one word to the book overall, it would be informative. Reynolds injects quite a lot of scientific-study [...]
On Tuesday, I called Ellie and asked her to stop on her way home to pick up a book that I heard about on NPR. She dutifully obliged, and that night I sat down to dive right in to Gretchen Reynolds's The First 20 Minutes: Surprising Science Reveals How We Can Exercise Better, Train Smarter, Live [...]