I really don’t want to be a foister, but I am. I am reading Seth Godin’s Linchpin at the moment and all I want to do is buy 20 copies and give them to people, press it into their hands with that annoying, desperate pleading in my eyes and say, “Pleeeeze! You simply MUST read [...]
Books That Changed My Life #1
I listened to the This American Life podcast the other day and the theme was “Books That Changed My Life.” (Ira Glass, the host, thought it was a rather unusual idea that a book could change a person’s life. Whatever, Ira.) Not me. Oh no. There have been many books that have completely changed the [...]
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The “B” Word
There was a time in my life when I only read “The Great Books.” (Classical literature by philosphers, poets and essayists—i.e. dead white guys.) There was a time in my life when I read poetry. Exclusively. Nothing else would do. (This jag went on for about 4 years.) There was a time in my life [...]
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