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Current Non-Fiction reads

The Now Habit: A Strategic Program for Overcoming Procrastination and Enjoying Guilt-Free Play by Neil A. Fiore

Offers you great strategies for attacking overwhelming large tasks, or smaller tasks that you detest to start.
 
mmyap said:
I recently read Rachel's Children by Jonathon Kozol. Written in the 1980's so the information was dated but it also seems like the more things change the more they stay the same. It's about homeless people living in shelters and homeless hotels, how they got there and what is keeping them there.

Next on my list is All You Can Eat. Poverty and hunger in the USA.

Both are subject that often come along with the phrase "There but for the grace of God go I." My usual response is No Way! Not Me. That only happens to other people.

We'll see.
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Read Rachel's children. I can see people losing jobs, losing health benefits, then losing their homes so easily. Especially in current economic times.

While reading Rachel's children, someone also recommended to me: A Framework for Understanding Poverty by Ruby K. Payne
 
I'm enjoying The Commanders by Bob Woodward. It highlights how Dick Cheney, Brent Scowcroft, Colin Powell, George W. Bush, and other leaders made the decisions that they did during the Bush 41 administration. It was interesting to find out why certain decisions were made, especially when it came to taking out Manuel Noriega in Panama. If anything, the book makes you appreciate Cheney's acumen for foreign policy decisions decision making.
 
I'm doubling up on The Library At Night by Alberto Manguel and A Brief History Of Time by Stephen Hawking. They're oddly compatible. Sort of like an ever-expanding library with a few black holes strewn in.
 
"Kurt Cobain" by Christopher Sandford

Pretty good so far. Heard that Charles Cross's "Heavier Than Heaven" is a lot better of an account of Cobain's life, but I haven't read it yet.
 
I'm reading "The Routes of Man: How Roads are changing the World and how we live today" by Ted Conover. It's really good so far, showing the impact that roads have on mankind and how we live. I'd also highly recommend any of his earlier work. My only complaint about him is that he isn't prolific enough to keep up with my reading. :)

Kristopher
 
I have four new to start, and who knows when to finish:

Postwar, A History of Europe Since 1945 - Tony Judt

Reappraisals - Tony Judt

Ill Fares the Land - Tony Judt

Complexity, a Guided Tour - Melanie Mitchell
 
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