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Review: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius – Dave Eggers
There hits a point in life, when you realize, it’s okay to not finish books. While A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius has its merits, inventive use of language, humor, and energy, it also is...
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I’m going to try and not be flippant. In order to save you time and money, I will condense Donall Revell‘s book, The Art of Attention: A Poet’s Eye, to one sentence. Pay attention. For those of you...
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Review: Sex, Murder, and the Meaning of Life – Douglas Kenrick
When a baseball player steps up to the plate and wags his bat at the wall past outfield, it’s a sign. Next pitch is a homerun. When someone, in this case, Douglas Kenrick, entitles a book Sex,...
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Review: Blink – Malcolm Gladwell
At this point, I’m not going to say much about Blink by Malcolm Gladwell, because much has been said all ready. Blink is about adaptive unconscious, rapid cognition, and thin-slicing. It is about...
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Review: You Are Not a Gadget – Jaron Lanier
Jaron Lanier’s profile reads more like a character from Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake or The Year of the Flood, than someone who followed a more traditional path to becoming an influential...
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Review: The Art of Time in Fiction – Joan Silber
I really love these books from the “Art of” series published by Graywolf Press. In Joan Silber‘s The Art of Time in Fiction she explores how writers use and manipulate time in numerous novels and...
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Review: Made to Stick – Chip and Dan Heath
How do ideas stick in our minds? What is it about those ideas that makes them so hard to shake? In Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die, Chip and Dan Heath answer these questions and...
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Review: Moonwalking with Einstein – Joshua Foer
What’s the capacity of our memories? What does it mean to have outsourced our memory to technology? In Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything, Joshua Foer explores the...
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Review: The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business –...
Habits have a profound influence over our lives. Before reading The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg, I had never paused and reflected on the habits in my...
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Review: Man, Play, and Games by Roger Caillois
Foregoing my normal reviews. Man, Play, and Games is a must read for those interested in games and the role of play. Initially, the book starts out quite strong by defining games and investigating the...
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