OUTLIERS & BLINK by Malcolm Gladwell – I recently listened to OUTLIERS and even though it blew me away, I never really blogged about it. To be honest, I’m just not sure what to say. In this book, he takes apart our idea of success and reconstructs it. I found it pretty exciting and I’m now examining my own successes to see where they’ve come from. It is an AMAZING book. I highly recommend it. And if you like audio, choose that. The author reads it himself and it’s really good.
BLINK is pretty cool in its own way. It really teaches you a lot about snap judgments and preconceived ideas. It’s fascinating. While I found OUTLIERS exciting and inspiring, this one left me a little colder because there was a lot of reality to it that is sort of dark or depressing. It explores things like violence and police brutality in detail and quite frankly, I like my rose tinted glasses and don’t want to know about an innocent guy shot on his stoop in The Bronx. Or war games. That’s just me though…maybe it’s why I write/read so much YA. I like happy. Still, it was a very interesting book. And not all YA is happy, I’m just being silly here.
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TRUSTEE FROM THE TOOL ROOM & RUINED CITY by Nevil Shute
I won’t actually write a review or anything about these, but I’ll say that they are some of my favourite books by one of my favourite authors and if you just need to read a really good story, here are two books to choose from that will suck you right in. Enjoy!
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