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Clearly, I would rather read than clean my French doors.
Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much – I read this book in 24 hours. I could hardly put it down. The topics of scarcity, abundance, and poverty mentality have long fascinated me. I definitely recognized patterns in my own life. Scarcity literally makes us do stupid things. Not only when it comes to money, but time and relationships too: being busy (time poor) makes us dumb procrastinators (a good reason not to fill the margins), being lonely makes us push people away. I felt the same way about this book that I’ve felt after other books on behavioral economics: hungry for a bullet list of takeaway points. This is one I’ll continue to meditate on for a long time. And the themes are mulling around in my head for a forthcoming blog post.
The Emotional Calendar: Understanding Seasonal Influences and Milestones to Become Happier, More Fulfilled, and in Control of Your Life – Weather has always had a powerful effect on my mood, so I was hoping for some good advice from this book. It ended up skimming most of it. I should have read the Amazon reviews, because they are correct. #Psych lite. #Common sense.
The Anti-Romantic Child: A Memoir of Unexpected Joy – This book initially turned me off. I am a pragmatist and was so irritated by the author’s extreme sentimentality and unrealistic, romantic notion of motherhood (not to mention the unending Wordsworth references). Yet it drew me in and I kept reading. I drew to love Benjamin and his mother (the author). Wonderful lesson in unconditional love and accepting what is.
What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast: And Two Other Short Guides to Achieving More at Work and at Home
I have already reviewed portions of this book, which first appeared as 3 separate ebooks. As a huge fan of Laura’s, I wanted the real thing to hold in my hand. This book also contains a nice appendix and a bit more content. Inspired me to do another weekly time log, which I blogged about over at Laura’s site.
The Scarcity book sounds good! I love economic geekery type books. And I’d heard a little about the Anti-Romantic Child but I wasn’t sure if I would like it. Is it a book you would recommend to a friend?
“The topics of scarcity, abundance, and poverty mentality have long fascinated me.”
Ditto. But literature about these all together? That’s new as a subject to me, and I’m not sure whether I’m excited or afraid to dive in; either way, this one’s going on my to-read list, and we’ll see how it goes.
Hi Sarah,
For some silly reason your comment was in my blog spam filter. 🙁 Thanks for stopping by!
Yes, I might recommend the book to someone – a certain someone likely. Perhaps a friend who had a child with special needs, or a friend who had a very romantic outlook 🙂
Carrie