First off, sorry for the hiatus in posting. Hopefully nobody did what I do, which is get pissed off if I check someone's blog more than once and discover it has not been updated. Silly, I realize. I do this even if it's only been two days. I should clarify: I don't really get pissed off, but I do find myself thinking, "what the hell, I've read this already. Come on people, it's been...like....2 days."I have read three books lately that are worth recommending. If you are looking for something to read, check one of them out.
The first book is Mark Tewksbury's Inside Out: Straight Talk from a Gay Jock
. Despite the cheesy title, I really enjoyed this book. It's basically his life's story, from growing up gay in Calgary to winning a gold medal at the Olympics in 1992. After his swimming career is over, he goes on to an interesting career in public speaking, television, and remains very involved with different aspects of the Olympics. Mark Tewksbury is a really interested and inspiring guy, and I'd recommend his book to everyone, even if it does speak to you quite the same as it did me.
. Despite the cheesy title, I really enjoyed this book. It's basically his life's story, from growing up gay in Calgary to winning a gold medal at the Olympics in 1992. After his swimming career is over, he goes on to an interesting career in public speaking, television, and remains very involved with different aspects of the Olympics. Mark Tewksbury is a really interested and inspiring guy, and I'd recommend his book to everyone, even if it does speak to you quite the same as it did me.
After that, I read A Bed of Red Flowers: In Search of My Afghanistan
by Canadian-Afghani author/film maker Nelofer Pazira. She is also telling the story of her life, with focus on the contrast between her life, having escaped Afghanistan after the Soviet occupation, and the life of her close friend who stays in Kandahar. Nelofer returns to Afghanistan to try and film a movie and to find her friend. The movie is a fictionalized version of the story of her and the friend, who's only contact with Nelofer has been through a series of letters that mysteriously end one day.
by Canadian-Afghani author/film maker Nelofer Pazira. She is also telling the story of her life, with focus on the contrast between her life, having escaped Afghanistan after the Soviet occupation, and the life of her close friend who stays in Kandahar. Nelofer returns to Afghanistan to try and film a movie and to find her friend. The movie is a fictionalized version of the story of her and the friend, who's only contact with Nelofer has been through a series of letters that mysteriously end one day.
Now I am reading Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
by Malcolm Gladwell. If you've read The Tipping Point
, you will like Blink. Blink is about thin-slicing, which is essentialy making quick conclusions with only tiny amount of information to go on. He talks about conscious decisions versus unconscious decisions, reference some interesting social science experiments and historical cases. This is everything from the case of police officers in New York who's thin-sliding-gone-horribly-wrong ending in the shooting of an innocent man to the Pepsi Challenge.
by Malcolm Gladwell. If you've read The Tipping Point
, you will like Blink. Blink is about thin-slicing, which is essentialy making quick conclusions with only tiny amount of information to go on. He talks about conscious decisions versus unconscious decisions, reference some interesting social science experiments and historical cases. This is everything from the case of police officers in New York who's thin-sliding-gone-horribly-wrong ending in the shooting of an innocent man to the Pepsi Challenge.
Check any of them out if you get the chance.
ps. The picture may also shed some light on why it's taken me so long to post. Tartan would prefer to nap, and that makes it really hard to type.
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