The first book was Malcolm Gladwell's latest, "Outliers" (chosen primarily because reading Gladwell doesn't seem like work at all, a key criteria for bvacation/b reading). In typical Gladwellian fashion, he takes a central idea -- the outliers ... a small town called bRoseto/b in Pennsylvania (where everybody lives longer than they're supposed to, statistically speaking) and the hockey players that make it to the WHL (Western Hockey League) and eventually, the NHL (like me, ...
The first book was Malcolm Gladwell's latest, "Outliers" (chosen primarily because reading Gladwell doesn't seem like work at all, a key criteria for bvacation/b reading). In typical Gladwellian fashion, he takes a central idea -- the outliers ... a small town called bRoseto/b in Pennsylvania (where everybody lives longer than they're supposed to, statistically speaking) and the hockey players that make it to the WHL (Western Hockey League) and eventually, the NHL (like me, ...
