book reviews
-
#BIT15Reads: Spin by Clive Veroni
Spin: How Politics Has the Power to Turn Marketing on Its Head by Clive Veroni My rating: 5 of 5 stars Clive Veroni is a masterful writer and this is a timely book. Not until most of the way through this book does he reveal that his degree in English literature has served him well…
-
#BIT15Reads: Google Hangout with Heather and Deb
Tonight at 7:30 pm I will go live with Heather Durnin and Deb McCallum about their reading and experience in the BIT15Reads bookclub so far. Deb is reading Motivating and Retaining Online Students by Rosemary Lehman, and Heather is reading This is Not a a Test by Jose Vilson. Both authors have agreed to be interviewed…
-
#BIT15Reads: The Glass Cage by Nicholas Carr
The Glass Cage: Automation and Us by Nicholas Carr My rating: 3 of 5 stars Like most people with an urban mindset, Nicholas Carr’s point of view focuses on being able to purchase goods and services at his fingertips. This is why, once again, his writing alienates people like me…people who live in a rural…
-
#BIT15Reads: Passionate disagreement
“….ideas that inspire passionate disagreement can lead to success” (Clive Veroni, Spin, p. 27) At last I’ve found a common thread between three #BIT15Reads books (two books is easy). Veroni says that modern marketing has finally understood that being really disagreeable, can also make you memorable and he goes on to say that politicians have…
-
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins My rating: 5 of 5 stars An instant classic, The Girl on the Train is delicious from start to finish. With multiple narrators involved in the same crime, readers are sure to enjoy the twists and turns of reliability and complete dysfuntion that each voice brings to…
threadbare beauty 