My Review of "The Compound Effect: Jump-Start Your Income, Your Life, Your Success": 5 Stars
My mom loaned this book to me, as encouragement that small choices can add up to a big difference over time, whether for better or for worse.
Favorite illustration (which I will paraphrase and ...
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Addiction in the Social Media Age
I’ve discovered this new podcast (new to me anyway) called “The Art of Charm.” Apparently it’s supposed to be for men only (their tag line is “Where ordinary guys become extraordinary men”), but I find the content really fascinating so I listen anyway.
Last night in my car, I started listening to ...
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SEO Marketing Strategies that Work
My New Friend Alexa
About two weeks ago I discovered the Alexa Traffic Rank widget, which you can download for free and insert into your toolbar. It looks like this once it’s installed:
This little guy tells you how highly a particular blog is ranked in a given country. If you’re over 500,000 ...
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Review of You Just Don’t Understand, by Deborah Tannen
My Review of "You Just Don't Understand": 5 Stars
Absolutely fascinating! I thought it was about male and female communication, but it also delves into cultural differences and personality differences in communication styles as well. On more than one occasion I found myself ...
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Review of The Bad Beginning, by Lemony Snicket
My Review of "The Bad Beginning": 4 Stars
Love the prose, the tongue-in-cheek way he stops to define any big words, and the way he translates baby-talk into complex sentences... so dry and witty!
I did, however, stop reading as soon as the author gave the disclaimer that the ...
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Review: Learned Optimism by Martin Seligman
My Review of "Learned Optimism": 5 Stars
Really interesting! I read this in installments over months because I lent it out when I wasn't finished with it, but Seligman makes the simple but profound point that a lot of "depression" is borne out of our individualistic culture. Real ...
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Review: The Life of Pi, by Yann Martel
My Review of "The Life of Pi": 4 Stars
I liked this book, but didn't love it... I was always interested in the story but never so much that I couldn't put it down for stretches at a time. Parts were really creative, and I wondered more than once if it was based on a true story (but ...
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Review: Peter Pan, by J.M. Barrie
My Review of "Peter Pan": 4 Stars
It was lighthearted and fun. Although ***SPOILER ALERT*** for some reason I had it in my head that Peter Pan came to the real world, grew up and married Wendy, and I was disappointed when Wendy married somebody else and Peter was still hanging out ...
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Review: The Great Divorce, C.S. Lewis
My Review of "The Great Divorce": 5 Stars
Love, love, love. I read this years ago but recently picked it up again because I remembered it was such a keen description of the different kinds of psychological "blinders" people wear, and a truly fascinating take on the concept of heaven ...
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Review: The Graveyard Book, by Neil Gaiman
My Review of "The Graveyard Book": 4 Stars
Very interesting narrative structure: it was episodic, like a TV show. The story follows Bod (short for Nobody), a boy who grows up in a graveyard, throughout multiple episodes of his life, but there is an overarching storyline of the man who ...
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