Wish in One Hand and Shit in The Other-See Which One Gets Full First. -one my Mom’s favorite sayings. Noelle Oxenhandler had never heard that saying and was greatly shocked by it. Kind of explains why my Mom never got to many wishes granted though. I like The Wishing Year as it was not quite what I was expecting. This is not a self help book which has a lot of tests to take and a lot of decisions to make. It’s an inspirational story of someone who wants three things-a house, a man, and a soul-and how she goes…
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Yes! 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to Be Persuasive
Yes! 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to Be Persuasive is the kind of book that makes you want to go out and conquer the world, or at least talk it into doing what you want it to do. I think calling it 50 ways to be persuasive is a bit of a stretch. Many of the techniques are just variations of previously mentioned techniques. But 10 Proven ways and 40 Spins on those Ways is not nearly as sexy a title. These are simple things like asking someone to do something-the success all depends on How you ask them. The first…
Thirteen by Richard K. Morgan
In the future, after another world war or two and after the United States have split into several parts-Genetic Variates are as common as different dog breeds. There are women who are genetically engineered to be great lovers, men who are engineered to do a lot of thinking, and men who are engineered to do a lot of killing. Our hero, such as he is, is a Variant 13-a Superman who is a recreated Human from twenty thousand years ago. Th1rte3n is a long and surprisingly deep book. The idea that bad things happen when you genetically engineer people is…
Geoff Dyer-Yoga For People Who Can’t Be Bothered
One of the stores in Geoff Dyer’s Yoga for people who can’t be bothered to do it is about a trip to Cambodia. I have read this story several times, and yet, each time I read it, it is shocking in its details and how pointless it all seems. Geoff Dyer is a dead brilliant writer-reading him makes me both want to write, and to give up writing as I will never be as good at it as he is. He sprinkles his writing with quotations and speaks as if he was there when Auden decided to say that Sunsets…
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
I couldn’t help being reminded of Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn while reading The Secret Life of Bees. It is the story of a poor, ignorant white girl and how her world view is changed by her black companion. Our hero is young and ignorant, which may be why this is The Secret Life of Bees instead of The Secret Lives of Bees. Set in the South in the early 1960s the story is about race, ignorance, hatred, and features the usual cast of bigoted white redneck men and noble well-educated black women. As in Dances With Wolves, our…