Stealing Books With My Vise-Like Memory Pt.2
So here’s another round of books that I mentally downloaded, with the intention of saving up money and curbing my magpie tendencies.
Follow my example, children. It’s penny-pinching fun. (Really, I feel bad for those bookstores that I’ve spent hours in without purchasing a single item, but hey, I’m just a bibliophile who’s got moths in his wallet,right?)
Penguin By Design | by Phil Baines
One can never go wrong with the unimpeachably vintage cool of Penguin books. Such is the case that I have used these art-house objects as props in one or two of my music videos to exude a certain hipster tang. Yes, I’m a poster boy for elegant minimalism.
Stretch: The Unlikely Making of A Yoga Dude | by Neal Pollack
At first glance, I may look like a geek to you, a champion of data and the prisoner of a sedentary lifestyle. But no, although I love activities where you get to sit down and absorb vast streams of beautiful information, I fancy myself a bit of a health buff. Aside from swimming, my next favorite physical activity is yoga.
In this book, the author tells how, like an undercover cop, he plumbs the depths of the entire yoga subculture. It’s arresting the way he describes his journey from yoga-averse (he initially thought that only gay men did it) to fair-to-middling ‘yoga dude’.
It’s not hard to fall for non-fiction books that’s all about trying out something you think is not you.
The Long Tail | Illustrated by Chris Anderson
The graphic novel is a communication device; its uses go beyond showing Wolverine fighting ninjas. Here’s a grand testament to that: a business book adapted to a comic book.
I have always had a reluctance towards reading business books. They can be quite intimidating, something that only tweedy, Starbucks-sipping yuppies can appreciate.
This graphic novel makes all the doublespeak easily digestible. And the subject matter is close to home: how one can monetize intellectual property in the Cyber Age where commercial and amateur art share the same shelf space.
