A few weeks ago Carl wrote a post recommending the writings of Michael Lewis. I snooped around the web and found this wonderful essay by Lewis about a subject I am deeply interested in, the aftermath of hurricane Katrina and the human reactions to it. After reading that essay I was impressed not only by the content, but by the writing style.
I am usually loathe to purchase more books, since I already have a pretty damned big stack that I haven’t read yet, just sitting in my basement waiting for me to dive in. But this time I decided to make an exception. Carl mentioned three books that Lewis wrote, one was about football, one about baseball, and the last about financial markets. Football interests me the most out of those three subjects, so I ordered The Blind Side
