The Hidden Beauty of Everyday Life7 reviews Kent Nerburn New World Library, 2006 Poignant, Thought-provoking, and moving... + Hidden Beauty Everyday Life + Seeing the world with fresh eyes + Inspiration at it's best + Inspiring & Serene!!             The Rhythm of Life: Living Every Day with Passion and Purpose33 reviews Matthew Kelly Fireside, 2005 Balance + The Rythm of Life: Living Every Day with Passion and Purpose + Super + An Excellent Book + Great Fundamentals/Perspective             The Discomfort Zone: A Personal History25 reviews Jonathan Franzen Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006 Discomfort and Revelation These autobiographical essays teeter between personal revelation and keeping the reader at arm's length and the discussion at an intellectual level. Franzen describes in unforgiving detail how he chose the wrong realtor to sell his mother's house. We see him fall for the flirtatious sales pitch ...             A Long Way Down224 reviews Nick Hornby Riverhead Trade, 2006 Classic Hornby -- brilliantly funny + Very different from his early work + Good read. + Funny and an all around good book             The Secret2274 reviews Rhonda Byrne Atria Books/Beyond Words, 2006 Authentic Self + Life changing! + Food for thought. Great reading material filled with wisdom and inspiration. I couldn't have read a more appropriate book for this time in my life. I would encourage anyone who is in the process of redefining their life's journey to read The Secret. Through my personal efforts and the written words from The ...             The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom, A Toltec Wisdom Book670 reviews Don Miguel Ruiz Amber-Allen Publishing, 2001 Simple and Wonderful + Excellent + Exciting Read!! UltimateGBGVitamins.com,UltimateMarketers.info This book can be read over and over. I pick it up and read it again and again and always get something new. It is simple and practical and about taking personal responsiblity for self! Love this book and the information in it!             Ready for Anything: 52 Productivity Principles for Work and Life44 reviews David Allen Penguin (Non-Classics), 2004 Productivity and Self Discovery + A Fire Burns After a Storm + The reiteration of "Getting Things Done" David Allen's "Ready for Everything: 52 Productivity Principles for Work & Life" is excellent! As the companion book following his widely popular "Getting Things Done", it is a great addition to enhance personal productivity. I found myself revisiting the book time and again to get back on track ...             The Last of the Savages30 reviews Jay Mcinerney Vintage, 1997 Underrated + May be last, but definitely not least... + More good stuff from a master + Redeemed by its good qualities             The Prophet262 reviews Kahlil Gibran Alfred A. Knopf, 1923 The Best Book Ever Written? + Eight Decades Later: Still Relevant, Insightful and Eloquent + The Greatest! I keep a copy of this book nearby at all times for quick reference, my personal copy home to numerous marks and marginal notes. Every line reads as the most delicate of poetry, honed and refined to the purest and most undeniable words of truth and wisdom. This may be the height of human ...             King Dork77 reviews Frank Portman Delacorte Books for Young Readers, 2006 Brilliantly subversive + Thoroughly enjoyable + Must Read! King Dork is far superior to most of what passes for literary fiction today, and it perfectly captures the voice of a boy in early adolescence and the high school milieu. What makes it particularly satisfying, however, is the way it absolutely skewers the pieties of the baby-boom generation, albeit ...             Thirteen Moons: A Novel176 reviews Charles Frazier Random House, 2006 An enlightening read + A story that invites you in told in rich language. + An Immersive Historical Fiction I had read Cold Mountain and when Frazier did another book I had to get it. Like Cold Mountain, it is sad. I suppose that what happened to the Indians being routed out of their homes and moved west was just a story until you read this heart breaking tale of what happened. Frazier makes all the ...             The Dream Manager35 reviews Matthew Kelly Hyperion, 2007 The dream manager changed my life + This WORKS! + An inspirational book + Remarkable book + Excellent Motivation             Reservation Road (Vintage Contemporaries) (Vintage Contemporaries)65 reviews John Burnham Schwartz Vintage, 2007 Deeply emotional novel of life's greatest pain + The literary side of crime fiction + Reservation Road The world shatters in a single instant. One moment ten-year-old Josh Learner is standing beside the road, the next moment he's dead, the victim of a hit and run driver. His father Ethan observes the devastating accident. Ethan's wife Grace and daughter Emma are in the restroom of the rural gas ...             Thunderstruck152 reviews Erik Larson Crown, 2006 An Artful Reconstruction of History + "More than a saga of violence" A wonderful, exciting, and vivid look at what life may have been like for and in the time of Guglielmo Marconi, (often cited as the inventor of but, more accurately, the first to successfully commercialize wireless communication). The author painstakingly reconstructs many events in Marconi's life ...             100 Bullshit Jobs...And How to Get Them16 reviews Stanley Bing Collins Business, 2006 Great + Good Idea I saw this in an airport and noticed my job(quantum physicist) was one of the BS jobs. Let me tell you that this is the only business book I could ever stand to read. Nothing in this book is serious of course. Tahts what makes it good. Its all a big joke. Even the formula the author uses to ...             Saturday294 reviews Ian McEwan Anchor, 2006 Excellent + Pretty good. Suspenseful, descriptive. + Well worth the effort. + Fantastic!             Slow Man42 reviews J. M. Coetzee Penguin (Non-Classics), 2006 Getting rid of Ms. Costello + Fairly enjoyable, rather confusing; maybe don't start here? - 3 3/4 What it puzzles me is that the professional reviewers - like the links from http://www.complete-review.com/reviews/coetzeej/slowman.htm - did not get the essence of the book. They just tell the plot, when there is no plot. They are upset - everyone is upset - by the artificial introduction in the ...             Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values528 reviews Robert M. Pirsig HarperTorch, 2006 Couldn't put it down. + Neat + About this book + A book about overcoming intellectualism and becoming whole             Perfectly Yourself: 9 Lessons for Enduring Happiness8 reviews Matthew Kelly Ballantine Books, 2006 I love Matthew Kelly's books and Audio's + Better than Dr.Phil + Perfectly yourself + 100% recommended + Another Hit!!             A Dangerous Man: A Novel28 reviews Charlie Huston Ballantine Books, 2006 OH HENRY! + Henry Has Come Back to His Beginnings + Our Beloved Hank Thompson.... + Wow!