Books 03 (Dec 09 - Dec 25)

[winston]

“Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.”
– Stephen King

[investar]

I am reading Give and Take by Adam Grant this summer and like it.

http://www.giveandtake.com/Home/Book

[winston]

10 Books That Might Change Your Life

By Mitch Horowitz

Source: Huffington Post

http://www.mindpowernews.com/BooksChangeYourLife.htm

[winston]

The Top 10 Books of 2010? By Craig Ballantyne

While going through some old newsletters I had written for my Internet Marketing Coaching business, I stumbled across a surprising list.

Turns out I read over 70 books in 2010. In 2014 I'm embarrassed to say that I barely made it through 25 books. I

'll share that list soon, but for now, there are a lot of great books from 2010 that you might be interested in reading. In fact, these are some of the most influential in my life. Here are the top 10 books I read in 2010.
1. Mastering the Rockefeller Habits – Verne Harnish
2. How to Read Faster in 10 Days – Abby Marks-Beale
3. Bringing Out the Best in People – Aubrey Daniels
4. Good to Great – Jim Collins
5. The Laws of Lifetime Growth: Always Make Your Future Bigger Than Your Past- Dan Sullivan
6. The Effective Executive – Peter Drucker
7. Drilling Down – Jim Novo
8. The Dan Sullivan Question – Dan Sullivan
9. Innovation Secrets of Steve Jobs & The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs - Carmine Gallo
10. Linchpin – Seth Godin (possibly his best book yet, definitely “meatier” than the rest)

Here’s a list of honorable mentions, re-reads, and eccentric books that were excellent.

- Man’s Search for Meaning – Viktor Frankl (It was a re-read, that’s why I didn’t make it a top 10)

- Counter-Insurgency Warfare – David Galula

- Acres of Diamonds – Richard Conwell

- Richest Man in Babylon – George Clason

- Getting Naked & Death of Meetings – by Pat Lencioni

- Exceptional Service, Exceptional Profit – Ingalleri & Solomon

- The Ultimate Sales Machine – Chet Holmes

- Work the System – Sam Carpenter

- The Golden ticket – Brendan Bouchard

- 7-Day Weekend – Richard Semco

- Walden – Thoreau

- Moby Dick- Melville

- On the Road – Kerouac


Source: ETR

[winston]

Mark Ford's Book Recommendations for 2015 By Craig Ballantyne

Mark read a book per week in 2014 and here are some of the books he read that I'm putting on my list for 2015.
Fiction
1. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
2. My Ántonia by Willa Cather
3. Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov
4. How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia by Mohsin Hamid
5. One More Thing by B. J. Novak

Nonfiction
1. Why Does the World Exist? by Jim Holt
2. Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov
3. Rethinking Aging by Nortin M. Hadler, MD
4. Motivation in the Real World by Saul W. Gellerman

Source: ETR

[winston]

"The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read."

- Abraham Lincoln

[winston]

Many people love reading. How should we select what to read and ensure the wisdom found therein is imbibed?

Books and facilities for mind-training are available in plenty, and at very cheap prices.

The heaps of books that lie around cannot succeed in penetrating the heavy binding and emerge as light in you.

For, just as the Divine is hidden by the mountain ranges of lust, anger, envy, and selfishness within, the sun of wisdom is also hidden in the books.

Though books and reading habits have spread to all corners of the earth, we can’t say that culture or wisdom has increased; the human is still not far from the ape.

An attractive binding, title and beautiful pictures are what the reader seeks; these are transitory pleasures which give momentary contentment.

Aimless reading of all and sundry books will confuse you and confer no peace. Hence discriminate, select and read books that contain life histories of saints and sages, and those that aid in the contemplation of the Divine.

Practice what you read. Then you will realise truth and enjoy everlasting bliss.

- Prema Vahini, Ch 1.

Becoming bookworms is not the sign of an educated person. It is more important to put into practice at least a fraction of what you have read

Source: radiosai.org

[winston]

"If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

[investar]

Recently: Flash Boys by Michael Lewis

Worst.Person.Ever by Douglas Coupland

re-read parts of Talebs Fooled By Randomness

[behappyalways]

Paris disappearing booksellers
http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/2015052 ... ooksellers