Books

Book 471: Ray and Joan – Lisa Napoli

napoli-lisa-ray-joanWhat a fascinating story. I figured it would be, I mean it’s about the guy who made McDonald’s what it is today and his wife who gave away billions of dollars, but I was still surprised at just how fascinating it was.

When Dutton reached out to me about a copy of the book* I jumped at the chance because not only do I find philanthropy personally fascinating, but I also work in fundraising, so it was a win-win either way for me.

I mean the subtitle “The man who made the McDonald’s fortune and the woman who gave it all away,” caught my attention pretty quick because I knew nothing about the founding of McDonald’s or the people behind it. I had no idea about most of it.

Continue reading “Book 471: Ray and Joan – Lisa Napoli”

Advertisements
Books

Book 328: The Host – Stephenie Meyer

Meyer, Stephenie - The HostI figured I would check this out after making my way through the Twilight Saga (here, here, here and here) to see if Meyer’s writing was any better when she wasn’t dealing with a manic-depressive teenager girl, oh wait she’s still doing that—sort of. Joking aside, unfortunately, this is another prime example of when a better writer could’ve created a book 100 times better than the one Meyer created, but I won’t knock her she has creative ideas and is a storyteller at heart. Check out a synopsis of the book here (Amazon affiliate link) if you haven’t read it.

Perhaps her writing isn’t as terrible as I think it is, but it’s just so simple that it makes it hard to read sometimes. And to be completely honest I almost didn’t make it past the first 10-15 pages of this book because it was so bewildering and horribly written. I’m pretty sure this was a style choice for the situation, but it did not make me want to read the book that’s for sure.

Click here to continue reading.
https://geoffwhaley.com/tag/san-diego/
geoffwhaley.com
crawl=CC-MAIN-2017-39
146335
application/http; msgtype=response
sha1:RBPJDUDT6GJSLN3KUHDCP653F6VHUOIE
<urn:uuid:e8272a2e-4803-4199-b5d8-3d6153ca7bc2>
2017-09-21T19:17:25Z
192.0.78.24
text/html
sha1:MIT4IEZ3V6CODFPCWL3IBLHIVEDZRSH3
<urn:uuid:1ca0955e-d5ef-4945-93c7-8eb375bfa786>
https://geoffwhaley.com/tag/san-diego/
length
response
<urn:uuid:4919fdbf-5063-4af7-871e-56e939a57d8a>
robots: classic
hostname: ip-10-159-149-228.ec2.internal
software: Nutch 1.6 (CC)
isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2017-39
operator: Common Crawl Admin
description: Wide crawl of the web for September 2017
publisher: Common Crawl
format: WARC File Format 1.0
conformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf