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Books | A Trip to the Library

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

I decided long ago that library fines are my way of donating to the public library system. This policy allows me to continue the super-nerdy behaviour I displayed as a book-hungry youth. In grade six I left the Black Mountain, North Carolina, school library after our weekly class visits with a teetering pile of books [...]

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Book | The Secret of the Shadow

Friday, January 8, 2010

Debbie Ford’s book, The Secret of the Shadow: The Power of Owning Your Whole Story, packs a double-whammy of interest for me: empowerment + story, two of my favourite things.
I’m finding the book to be exactly what I need for excavating gems from the hard earth of my past so I can really move on [...]

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Book | Glimmer

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

My copy of Warren Berger’s book bristles with Post-It Notes. Its full title is Glimmer: How Design Can Transform Your Life, Your Business, and Maybe Even the World and it features the visionary ideas of Bruce Mau, along with other designers and thinkers on the topic. I’m forcing myself to stop at page 50 and [...]

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Make the Most of Your Public Library

Thursday, August 13, 2009

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
Jorge Luis Borges
For a vast selection of cheap thrills, head to … your local public library. But dig deep. Books are only the tip of the iceberg.
These days, with the Internet acting as connector and entire regions pooling their resources, even rural and off-the-beaten-path [...]

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Reading as a Way of Life

Thursday, July 16, 2009

“My heartfelt belief was that all meals should be eaten hunched over a desk with your nose in a book and everything you were eating chopped up and eaten out of a bowl with a spoon, the better to scoop it up without having to lift your eyes from the page.”
~ Polly Horvath, The Corps [...]

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