Tag: nonfiction
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Book Review: Better Than Before
Author: Gretchen Rubin Rating: 3 stars Book Blurb: Most of us have a habit we’d like to change, and there’s no shortage of expert advice. But as we all know from tough experience, no magic, one-size-fits-all solution exists. It takes work to make a habit, but once that habit is set, we can harness the […]
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Book Review: The Year Of Less
Author: Cait Flanders Rating: 4 Stars Book Blurb: In her late twenties, Cait Flanders found herself stuck in the consumerism cycle that grips so many of us: earn more, buy more, want more, rinse, repeat. Even after she worked her way out of nearly $30,000 of consumer debt, her old habits took hold again. When […]
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Nonfiction November DNF: Primates of Park Avenue
Author: Wednesday Martin Book Blurb: When Wednesday Martin first arrives on New York City’s Upper East Side, she’s clueless about the right addresses, the right wardrobe, and the right schools, and she’s taken aback by the glamorous, sharp-elbowed mommies around her. She feels hazed and unwelcome until she begins to look at her new niche […]
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Nonfiction November Book Review: American Sherlock
Author: Kate Winkler Dawson Rating: 3/5 stars Book Blurb: Berkeley, California, 1933. In a lab filled with curiosities–beakers, microscopes, Bunsen burners, and hundreds upon hundreds of books–sat an investigator who would go on to crack at least two thousand cases in his forty-year career. Known as the “American Sherlock Holmes,” Edward Oscar Heinrich was one […]
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Nonfiction November Book Review: Stolen Focus
Author: Johann Hari Rating: 4/5 stars Book Blurb: In the United States, teenagers can focus on one task for only sixty-five seconds at a time, and office workers average only three minutes. Like so many of us, Johann Hari was finding that constantly switching from device to device and tab to tab was a diminishing and […]
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Nonfiction November Book Review: The Now Habit
Author: Neil Fiore, PhD Rating: 3/5 stars Book Blurb: Featuring a new introduction and a new section providing strategies to understand and deal with the role technology plays in procrastination today, THE NOW HABIT offers a comprehensive plan to help readers lower their stress and increase their time to enjoy guilt-free play. Dr. Fiore’s techniques will help any […]
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