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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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