Seth Godin has written many books on marketing, and recently I’ve decided to read at least one of them. This is Marketing is his most recent title. It’s very readable, and I devoured it in one afternoon. It’s not really intended as an introduction to the subject, despite its encouraging title. However, for those who have had some experience of marketing, this is a very … Continue reading Seth Godin “This is Marketing” – book review
Professor Edward Bullmore is Head of the Department of Psychiatry and the Director of the Wolfson Brain Imaging Centre in the Department of Clinical Neurosciences at the University of Cambridge and a part-time consultant for GlaxoSmithKline. His book is a summary of the most recent research linking depression to physical inflammation. Here’s a link to an article summarizing his theory. I found this book absolutely … Continue reading Edward Bullmore’s “The Inflamed Mind” – book review
“Poor little monkey!” (…) the words were an epitaph for the tomb of Maisie’s childhood. She was abandoned to her fate. What was clear to any spectator was that the only link binding her to either parent was this lamentable fact of her being a ready vessel of bitterness, a deep little porcelain cup in which biting acids could be mixed. They had wanted her … Continue reading Henry James’s “What Maisie Knew” – book review
Yara Rodrigues Fowler’s The Stubborn Archivist is not strictly speaking a novel. It has much more in common with a piece of poetic prose – and in fact, the first few pages seem almost to be toying with the idea of straightforward poetry – with bold headings and lots of white space surrounding many line breaks. But it manages to engage one’s attention much as … Continue reading Yara Rodrigues Fowler “The Stubborn Archivist” – book review
I came across The Last Brother by coincidence and I read it in one breathless sitting. Continue reading Nathacha Appanah’s “The Last Brother” – book review
A synthesis of the most important positive psychology insights out there Continue reading Caroline Webb’s “How to Have a Good Day” –– book review
This is the first Malcolm Gladwell book that I’ve read Continue reading Malcolm Gladwell’s “Outliers” – book review
Three of my additions are the result of a blip in my New Year’s resolution of buying fewer books… Oops Continue reading Top Ten Tuesday: The Ten Most Recent Additions to My To-Read List
This week’s poem is a sonnet about sonnets (a meta-sonnet, if you like) Continue reading Poem of the Week: John Keats “On the Sonnet”
I have a highly subjective view of this book: and I liked it a lot. Continue reading Dr. Adrian Owen “Into the Grey Zone” – book review
