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What Are You Reading Right Now?
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This is a group where you can tell us what you're reading and what you think of it to give others some ideas. Your choices can be fiction, non-fiction, articles, books, blogs, whatever. Tell us what it is and your opinion of it!
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Comment by Lillian Gaffney on June 23, 2010 at 10:20pm
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One of the books I'm reading right now is, The Success Principles: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be by Jack Canfield cocreator of Chicken Soup for the Soul with Janet Switzer
I've been reading self-development books for twenty years and never tire of them. I find most of the books I read inspirational and motivational. This one is no exception. Jack Canfield was one of my trainer's so I have a special kinship to his work. He shares practical and inspiring principles to get any one who aspires to move from where they are to where they want to be. He shares his basic knowledge of how to obtain success. Easy read.
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Comment by wiffledust on June 12, 2010 at 12:36am
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you hadn't seen The Notebook before, elle? oh wow. i loved it. i love the first half more than the second half, but the ending is so good. i think the young folks in that movie are such good actors. james garner is just..just..just...oh sigh. no words!!! ;-))) when i get into a novel, i read it all at once too!
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Comment by Elle MacNeil on June 12, 2010 at 12:14am
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As I've said before, I'm a mystery or forensics reader, but I'm fortunate that I have a few classy friends that keep trying to elevate me. Sheree sent me a couple of books and I read Precious in a 24 hour period! Absolutely LOVED it. Not sure if it's becaus eit hit so very close to home - I was a special ed classroom assistant for 20 plus years. Most of my students were inner city kids, very much like Precious. Now I can't wait to see the movie!
And I saw most of The Notebook the other night. I was surprised - I liked it! Well, all except the fact that it was so very sad. James Garner - they just don't make 'em like that anymore!!!
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Comment by Carissa Galow on June 2, 2010 at 9:40pm
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Yeah, I want to both see and read The Notebook. I have heard a lot of good things about the storyline. And haha, nice...Procrastination, I should read that. :P
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nicholas sparks is fun, carissa. the notebook is a great movie. if you like that stuff, and i do. i'm reading a non fiction book about procrastination called....shockingly..."procrastination" by burka and yuen. and i'm not putting it off or anything! ;-)
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I just started reading stuff by Nicholas Sparks, finished The Last Song & The Guardian....now Dear John.
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Comment by Helen on May 25, 2010 at 11:08am
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I've just started to read The Zen of Seeing by Frederick Franck. It discusses the idea of seeing and drawing as one, and the way that this helps you to 'rediscover' the world, partly in a meditative way. I want to encourage my drawing skills and thought that this was a really interesting, inspiring and creative way to approach it.
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oh i'm so glad you commented on this, shannon. i love dorraine and her blogs but haven't had any time to read a novel yet. i want to read hers. yes, if anyone on here doesn't know, dorraine darden is a novelist who blogs on here and has published novels. DO check her out. river jordan also has some good published novels in the southern woman's voice as well that everyone should try!
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oh i think that's crap. there, i said it. not what YOU said, but what gladwell says. tons of people like my furniture i've painted, and i just started that. the fellow artist i sell ..the magnets and cards...she started relatively late. we are constantly evolving and growing beings. EVERYTHING IS POSSIBLE. ok, figure skating might be hard. the really physical things involving muscle memory MAYBE. but please. he's wrong about alot!
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Comment by Maura C. Ciccarelli on May 15, 2010 at 1:54pm
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I liked "Outliers," but I had one negative emotional reaction. It presents case after case of successful people who share several "specs": the luck to be born at a certain time, to have the resources early on to develop their art (10,000 hours is minimum to achieve mastery, according to research), and to have someone take an interest in mentoring them. The Beatles probably wouldn't have made it if they hadn't gone to Hamburg, Germany to play music around the clock. Software giants like Microsoft's Bill Gates and others were born at the right time and had unlimited access to programming hours at a university computer lab. THAT SAID, these folks wouldn't have made it if they hadn't focused and committed themselves to the pursuit. Do read the book and be amazed at how much of we call "talent" is really good old-fashioned hard work. I'm working through my feeling of "I'll never be a true master if I don't meet the specs listed above." Problem is, it's hard not to feel a bit discouraged by it all. (BTW, I'm NOT a negative person when it comes to encouraging others to pursue their dream. When I turn the mirror back onto myself, I don't give myself the same support. Again, I'm working on it...)
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