Tag Archives: Books

The Endless Kindle

Posted on July 23, 2010 by Terry Taylor

The new graphite-colored Kindle DX has a bigger screen (9.7 inches), 50% better contrast, 4GB of storage, 3G wireless network, a battery that goes a week between charges and holds up to 3,500 books. Sure, it costs $359.00, but let’s … Continue reading →

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Where Is Atticus Finch?

Posted on June 23, 2010 by Terry Taylor

Growing up fifty miles from Monroeville, Alabama means I have crossed paths with the reclusive Harper Lee many times. I never met her, mind you. I know her from her famous book, a biography she refused to cooperate with and … Continue reading →

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Cooking Up A Storm Of New Cookbooks

Posted on June 18, 2010 by Terry Taylor

There are a lot of new back-to-basics cookbooks being published these days with the Slow Food movement and it’s first through third cousins roaming the aisles at bookstores. Tweet This Post

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Sail Cat Road, Chapter 17

Posted on January 4, 2010 by Terry Taylor

Sail Cat Road, the sequel to No Good End, continues below. It is being posted tweet-by-tweet daily on Twitter (http://twitter.com/ttaylordude). I will post each chapter here (in chronological order). Thank you for your time. A breeze raked a fallen pine … Continue reading →

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Sail Cat Road, Chapter 16

Posted on December 14, 2009 by Terry Taylor

Chapter 16 Popping sounds came from relaxing metal under the pecan tree. Jimmy and Gus found no more drivers licenses. Gasoline soaked the earth. “You’ll want to walk back to the truck,” said Jimmy. “I’m going to roast some pecans.” … Continue reading →

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I Am What You Read

Posted on October 14, 2009 by Terry Taylor

Even with Dan Brown’s “The Lost Symbol” selling 2 million copies in its first week, book sales are down about 4 percent from this time last year. Bestselling authors like Pat Conroy and Mitch Albom are not rescuing the beleaguered … Continue reading →

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In Us We Trust

Posted on December 5, 2008 by Terry Taylor

    In Rob Walker’s book “Buying In,” along with espousing his thoughts on ‘murketing’ (look it up) he talks about how trust in authority is suffering even more than usual. A cursory Google dig will build a nice little … Continue reading →

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Stephen King Goes South

Posted on January 25, 2008 by Terry Taylor

In 1998, writer, Stephen King, became a part-time resident of the Florida Gulf Coast. Now he has set a novel there. Duma Key is Stephen King’s first Deep South novel. A writer friend of mine said, “If you think he … Continue reading →

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Glue #9: Spreading the Glue

Posted on December 7, 2007 by Terry Taylor

If you are even remotely familiar with Thomas L. Friedman’s book, “The World Is Flat, A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century,” you know about one of the biggest flatteners in the world: Wal-Mart. Tweet This Post

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Ridin’ With Jimmy and The Boss

Posted on November 28, 2007 by Terry Taylor

If you haven’t read “Hammer of the Gods,” the seminal and raunchy history of Led Zeppelin by Stephen Davis, don’t worry, you have a couple of chances to get a close-up feel for the senior citizen gods of rock at … Continue reading →

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Glue #2: What is Glue and how can it help your company?

Posted on October 17, 2007 by Terry Taylor

Imagine you are in a room with a single lamp. The room is dark. You flip on the lamp. Nothing happens. You immediately think the bulb is blown. But then you fumble around in the dark and see that the … Continue reading →

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Glue: #1 How to Hold Your Business Together.

Posted on October 10, 2007 by Terry Taylor

This is the first in a series about the contact points that make a company successful. I’m not talking about just branding or marketing success; I’m talking about total success – in sales and operations and customer service and distribution … Continue reading →

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How Starbucks Saved My Life (and made the advertising profession look like a shallow pool of miscreants)

Posted on October 5, 2007 by Terry Taylor

I have always been leery of guys with three names. Presidents and serial killers come to mind. Into my doubting field of vision has wandered one more – Michael Gates Gill, and his book “How Starbucks Saved My Life: A … Continue reading →

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Bet On the Rider, Not the Horse

Posted on August 8, 2007 by Terry Taylor

“The key to mega-stock investing is not focusing on the industry, but rather on the entrepreneurial leadership characteristics of the CEO. This strategy is what Renn Capital Group uses to provide, in some cases, soaring returns for investors. You might … Continue reading →

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Three Things

Posted on May 25, 2007 by Terry Taylor

Selling Out, Up, Down & Dirty Worm poop is hip. Just ask TerraCycle, Inc magazine’s 2006 “The Coolest Little Start Up In America.” Started by a Princeton dropout (who found that worm droppings helped “certain” kind of plants to grow … Continue reading →

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