2020-8 How to Age by Anne Karpf (2014) Two reasons for picking this book up: Its compact size that fits into my small shoulder bag, and that it was a prescriptive nonfiction. I found it at the library. It turned out not so much about HOW exactly to age, but how to resist the stereotype […]
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2020-7 The Soloist: A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music (2008) by Steve Lopez Steve Lopez started writing about a Nathaniel Ayers in a series of LA Times column. Nathaniel was homeless, playing a violin that only had two strings – but the music drew Steve to Nathaniel and this
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2020-6 “Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother’s Will to Survive” by Stephanie Lane (2019) I “read” this book as an audio book in my car over the course of a week. I read “Maid” because, it was one of the recent bestsellers by an unknown female author around my age, along with “Educated”
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2020-6: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change by Stephen R. Covey (1989) Read as an audio book in the car over the course of a week. It’s been at least a week since I finished reading (listening to) this book. This morning, as I flipped through the pages of
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2020-5 “How to Win Friends and Influence People(1936)” by Dale Carnegie I listened to this book on Audible. I’ve vaguely known about this book since I was in high school. There are several reasons that compelled me to “read it” now, at this point in my life. I’ve been reading a lot of prescriptive nonfiction
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