It lives!

I've decided to resuscitate this blog. This time, it will be more of just a journal of what I'm reading, as well as maybe some "dry run" type posts for a more professional blog on land issues that I'm thinking about starting. As Blattman says, "you get what you pay for."

Here's what I'm reading at the moment:

Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action, by Elinor Ostrom. Embarassingly, I haven't read this before, and it's #1 on the list of "books that I really should have read by now."

This Child Will be Great: Memoir of a Remarkable Life by Africa's First Woman President, by Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. The title put me off at first, but it's very good so far- well written and as much about Liberia in general as it is about Johnson Sirleaf herself. I have a trip to Liberia coming up in a couple of weeks, so this is my background reading for that.

Power: Why Some People Have it and Others Don't, by Jeffrey Pfeffer. This is a book by a business professor that so far is about how to be a self-promoting kiss ass. I've never read anything like this before and I doubt that I will make it through the whole thing, but I'll at least give it a couple of chapters.

Children of the Mind, by Orson Scott Card. The last book in great science fiction series.