Good grief: has it really been a month since I’ve blogged? Nearly. I’ve been so buried in books. (The ones I’m writing, not just the ones I’m reading.) So here come a few miscellaneous bits of book notes:

Ana and I just got back from a week in Arizona. One day in Sedona, Ana went around with a realtor to look at a few houses (we’re always interested in possible future relocations where the snow don’t shine). Touring one especially nice home, she went through the master bedroom and glanced at the book on the bedstand —

It was a little red book called The Go-Giver. (Rats, no photo: I had the camera.)

Arriving home I discovered that both The Go-Giver and A Deadly Misunderstanding hit the “Monthly Top 25” December bestseller list at 800-CEO-Read, at spots #4 and #15, respectively. Sweet.

I also discovered that over on Harvey McKinnon’s blog, Harvey (coauthor of The Power of Giving) wrote a very moving post about A Deadly Misunderstanding.

We went to Sedona fully intending to hate it there (dry, barren, cactusy, no green, nuttin like the East) — and when we got there, we fell in love. I don’t mean with each other (that train left the station ten years ago), but with Sedona.

And just to prove that we were really there:

These pictures cannot possibly do it justice. It’s gorgeous there: lushly green, only in a “Did we just land on Mars?” way. Ringed round by rich red mountains, you feel like you are the tapioca in a bowl of intensely vibrational pudding.

I know: the words aren’t exactly doing it justice, either. You have to go see it for yourself.

Okay, back to work. I’m about to dig into Chapter 11 of The Secret Language of Money — more on that before long.

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