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1. Phillipa Mitchell Says:
   July 28th, 2009 at 7:19 PM

   I’m reading How the Mighty Fall: And Why Some Companies Never Give up, by Jim Collins

2. glinstergogga Says:
   July 29th, 2009 at 5:35 PM

   The Blue Nowhere by Jeffrey Deaver.

3. toxic apple Says:
   August 4th, 2009 at 9:44 AM

   I got my grubby hands on “Visual Basic 2005 Database Programming”. Roger Jennings shares his pearls with the little people so that the software developing masses can be of a happier countenance.

   Boy, I can’t wait for the movie!

4. Judi Says:
   August 4th, 2009 at 10:54 AM

   The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle (This one seems to be my repeat reading agenda) How quickly we forget…

5. DaveSoane Says:
   August 4th, 2009 at 12:10 PM

   Half-way through the biography of PierLuigi Collina, the Italian football referee with the piercing eyes. Not particularly well-written, jumps about a lot, and I always have reservations about translated books (why I can’t get excited about anything by Umberto Eco), but it’s interesting for someone who has a football-mad teenage son.

   Looking forward to my next one : Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell.

6. Addie Says:
   August 4th, 2009 at 6:34 PM

   I just finished Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert. My next read is The Five Love Languages of Children by Chapman and Campbell

7. Phillipa Mitchell Says:
   August 24th, 2009 at 7:56 PM

   I’m reading (well, I’m listening to) “Blink” by Malcolm Gladwell – fascinating!! Work this one out: A father and son are in a car accident. The father dies and the son is rushed to hospital. The attending doctor looks at the boy and cries out, “That’s my son!”. Who is the doctor?

   If you can’t get the answer within a few seconds, you had better read the book and learn about the implications of thinking at the speed of a blink – where first impressions can either aid us or fail us.

   Thrilled to find out that Gladwell has a new book coming out in October entitled “What the Dog Saw: And other Adventures” where he brings together, for the first time, the best of his writing from The New Yorker over the same period.

   PS – A clue to the answer to the question above – Who says doctors are always male?

8. glinstergogga Says:
   August 28th, 2009 at 10:27 PM

   Seaswept by Nora Roberts

   Part one of a trilogy…

9. DaveSoane Says:
   August 31st, 2009 at 6:19 PM

   Just finished Outliers by Gladwell. I found the first third riveting, but then I felt he rather ran out of interesting case studies and the chapter about the Korean Air problems just wouldn’t finish. But a lot of the stuff was very good and the book as a whole was still worth while.

   At least it wasn’t like many non-fiction books that have a very thin basic premise, which could be introduced, explained, and summarised in 10 pages, but which then go and fill 300 pages with padding. Been there too many times to count.

10. Phillipa Mitchell Says:
    September 1st, 2009 at 12:00 PM

    Loved the audio version of Outliers - Malcolm Gladwell is an excellent author AND narrator! His new book “What the Dog Saw” will be out in October in paperback, hardback and audio – cannot wait!

11. Phillipa Mitchell Says:
    September 17th, 2009 at 9:08 AM

    I am currently listening to “Rich Brother, Rich Sister” by Robert and Emmi Kiyosaki – finding this book really inspiring as it delves into the past of this brother and sister, each of whom found their riches in different ways: Robert through material wealth, and Emmi through spiritual wealth. It goes on to describe how each of them was able to help the other grow. Well worth the read – or the listen!

12. glinstergogga Says:
    October 9th, 2009 at 1:44 PM

    The Cave by Kate Mosse

    A QUICK READ – part of the WORLD BOOK DAY 2009 literacy initiative for emergent readers. March 1928. Freddie Smith is on a motoring holiday in the mountains of south west France.

    He is caught in a violent storm and his car crashes. He is forced to seek shelter in a boarding house in the nearby village of Axat. There he meets another guest in the tiny hotel, a pale and beautiful young woman called Marie.

    As the storm rages outside, she explains how the region was ripped apart by wars of religion in the 14th century. She tells how, one terrible night in March 1328, all the inhabitants of Axat were forced to flee from the soldiers into the mountains. The villagers took refuge in a cave, but when the fighting was over, no one came back.

    Their bodies were never found. Axat itself became a ghost town. When Freddie wakes the following morning, Marie has gone.

    Worse still, his car will take several days to repair and he has to stay at the boarding house for a few days more. To pass the time, he explores the mountains. Then he realises it is almost 600 years to the day since the villagers disappeared.

    He decides to go and look for the cave himself. Perhaps, he thinks, he might even find Marie? It is a decision he will live to regret..

13. glinstergogga Says:
    October 15th, 2009 at 10:55 AM

    The Friday Night Knitting Club by Kate Jacobs

    Casting on … It starts almost by accident: the women who buy their knitting needles and wool from Georgia’s store linger for advice, for a coffee, for a chat and before they know it, every Friday night is knitting night. Finding a pattern … And as the needles clack, and the garments grow, the conversation moves on from patterns and yarn to life, love and everything. These women are of different ages, from different backgrounds and facing different problems, but they are drawn together by threads of affection that prove as durable as the sweaters they knit. The Friday Night Knitting Club – don’t you want to join?