{"id":132,"date":"2005-08-27T18:08:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-28T01:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shinnphoto.com\/andrewandlisa.org\/?p=132"},"modified":"2006-05-06T15:35:38","modified_gmt":"2006-05-06T22:35:38","slug":"my-book-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewandlisa.org\/?p=132","title":{"rendered":"My Book List"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hey, Shinnfans. I’ve been meaning for a while to post some recent books have captured my fancy. I intend to read these soon. Some of them I’ll read very soon (like as soon as I finish this blog post). Ok, here they are in no discernable order:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Blink(new window)<\/a> by Malcolm Gladwell<\/em>This book is about the power of immediate
    \ndecision-making and assessment. I started reading it
    \ntoday, and it’s every bit as good as I decided it would
    \nbe when I picked it up. Why that is I may have to read
    \nfurther in the book to find out.<\/li>\n
  2. The Tipping Point (new window)<\/a> also by Malcolm Gladwell<\/em>By the same author, this book explores change,
    \nepidemics, and what drives these things today in many
    \ndifferent spheres. I don’t know much about it, and I
    \ndon’t have the book yet. Anyone else read this? I
    \nthink I may be the last person in America to read it.
    \nTalk about being behind the change curve.<\/li>\n
  3. Good Business (new window)<\/a> by Giles Gibbons and Steve Hilton<\/em>I started reading this book a few years ago and never
    \nfinished it. It’s haunted me ever since, because the
    \nvery little I read changed my life. It really did. It
    \nradically altered my view of business, it’s purposes,
    \nand its global impacts. The authors say
    \nthat if you want to change the world, you should
    \nuse business. And if you want to do good for your
    \nbusiness, you should try to change the world.
    \nProfound? Yes. Obvious? Maybe to most. It wasn’t to
    \nme. Worth Reading? Definitely. I checked out a
    \nversion of this from a school library, but I want to
    \nown a copy to finish, keep, refer to, and share.
    \nProbably my favorite book of the past several years.<\/li>\n
  4. The World is Flat(new window)<\/a> by Thomas Friedman<\/em>I think God wants me to read this book. It’s alarming
    \nthe frequency with which this book (and recommendations
    \nto read it) cross my path. In the space of four days,
    \nI’ve been referred to it by a good friend (thanks,
    \nAlex!), recommended to read it and ordered to read it
    \nfor one of my classes, and saw it mentioned in the
    \nletters to the editor of the Lodi News Sentinel. I
    \nwalked into Borders last night with Lisa, and it was
    \nthe first book I saw. Knowing that fate would sooner
    \nor later clobber me with this book, I beat the bugger
    \nto the punch and purchased it (but on my terms: at 30%
    \noff the cover price). I’ll let you know how it is. If
    \nyou ever want to borrow it, it’ll be on my shelf.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Well, that’s the short list for now. Has anyone read any of these books? Can you tell me what to expect? Any comments?<\/p>\n

    Cheers,<\/p>\n

    Andrew<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Hey, Shinnfans. I’ve been meaning for a while to post some recent books have captured my fancy. I intend to read these soon. Some of them I’ll read very soon (like as soon as I finish this blog post). Ok, here they are in no discernable order: Blink(new window) by Malcolm GladwellThis book is about … Continue reading My Book List<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-report"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdZlL-28","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewandlisa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewandlisa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewandlisa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewandlisa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewandlisa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewandlisa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewandlisa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewandlisa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewandlisa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}