Category: Books
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Why I rarely read fiction
When people ask me about my love of books and daily reading habit they are sometimes surprised when I say I don’t read fiction. Well, that last statement is not completely true as I occasionally read fiction but I’m very choosy.
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More wisdom
This is another article in my series of comments on Life’s Little Instruction Book (Volume 2) by H. Jackson Brown. I have selected ten more pieces of advice and added my comments.
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More of Life’s Little Instructions
I have been reading the second volume of Life’s Little Instruction Book (by H. Jackson Brown) and wanted to share ten instructions with my comments. I wrote about the first volume in an earlier article.
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Life’s Little Instruction Book
In 1991 this little book became a publishing sensation. It was widely read and became a popular present – I had two copies. It was written by H. Jackson Brown initially as a gift to his son who was starting as a college freshman. The book offers short pieces of advice in a series of…
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Smart Reading
Would you like to read faster? How about read smarter? You are probably like me and have a lot of material to read but limited time to read and absorb the information. In this article I describe a method for reading non-fiction material – Smart Reading.
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2012 Reading Challenge – 25 books in 6 months
I track the books I read using the Goodreads web site. In January I signed up to the challenge of reading 50 books in 2012. This image shows the covers of books I have recently read. Follow this link to view the covers of all 25 books and access more information about the books and…
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Taking a break from library borrowing
I love my local library. I have been regularly borrowing books, CDs and DVDs for the last 7 years of my working life here in North Sydney. I also have a growing collection of books which I have purchased from AbeBooks, Amazon or local book fairs. I decided to have a break from library borrowing…
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Three great online bookshops
When I heard the news last year that many Borders bookshops were closing, I was not surprised. I have been buying books from overseas for several years for the simple reason that the books are much cheaper and the range is much wider. I love reading and have a lot of books in my collection.…
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The Checklist Manifesto (How to Get Things Right)
The Checklist Manifesto How to Get Things Right Atul Gawande Ths is a book about the humble checklist and its surprising power to ensure complex tasks are done effectively, especially in high stress or critical situations. Atul Gawande is a general and endocrine surgeon at Brigham and Women’s Hopsital in Boston as well as a…
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The Australian Book of Great Trials
The Australian Book of Great Trials contains twelve of the most extraordinary cases to have been heard in a courtoom, stories from 1788 to 2008 that have helped shape how we live our lives. The book was written by Jeremy Stoljar – a barrister in a commercial law practice in Sydney and colleague of Ian,…
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