I made a resolution to read a book a week in 2015. As long as you are making resolutions, you should make them fun, right? In January I read a great nonfiction book about New Orleans’ neighborhoods and culture, a good historical fiction book that takes place during World War II and a bunch of […]
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Until today, I always considered New Year’s Resolutions as something hard. Something you didn’t really want to do but knew you should. Like lose weight, eat better, get more exercise, … then I read Mark Zuckerberg’s resolution. He’s going to read a book a week in 2015. (And the first book he picked sold out
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My sister sent me a message asking for some fantasy book recommendations for a tween girl. No science fiction; old school authors are ok. That’s my favorite kind of question! What did I like to read around middle school age? Here’s the list I sent. Makes me want to curl up for the rest of
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Anything You Want is a book by Derek Sivers, the founder of CD Baby. Derek shares how he created a muli-million dollar company (supposedly he sold it for $22 million) as well as his philosophy around why you should start a business and how he ran a company. It sounds like he’s a pretty unique
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Last month my book group read The Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbraith, aka J.K. Rowling. Although I wouldn’t call her my favorite author, I loved the Harry Potter series – I started reading the first one on an airplane ride home and actually sat at the airport to finish the book before I drove home. I was
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If you have an Amazon Prime membership, you can check out a book a month on your Kindle without paying anything extra. The problem is it’s really hard to search for which Kindle books are part of the program. Here’s a link to an Amazon search result that will show you all the Prime eligible books:
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I read an awesome book last month, Little Princes: One Man’s Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal by Connor Grennan that made me realize that in addition to saving the world and solving big problems that affect millions of people, we also need to make sure everyone has a champion. Little Princes is about this
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 What scifi book would you recommend to a non-scifi reader? Catch: It has to be one I haven’t read. (For a book group.) — Stormy (@storming) May 17, 2013 I asked on Twitter and Facebook and it started a lively debate. Add your thoughts below! Here were the most recommended and discussed books: Ender’s
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While the diet and the ideas behind The FastDiet are pretty intriguing, the book doesn’t add a lot of value. I was expecting something like Good Calories, Bad Calories. Something with a bit of research and data behind it. Instead you get a brief overview of the diet with a few pointers to studies, a
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The Starfish and the Spider compares two types of organizational structures. Spider organizations have a central command structure, like a CEO. If you detach one of the spider’s legs from the head, the leg can no longer function. It is not autonomous. Starfish organizations have very distributed command structures. Cut off a leg and it
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