In keeping with the can-do spirit of the New Year--and in light of Netflix’s recent launch of the reality show “Tidying Up With Marie Kondo”--I’ve decided to take this opportunity to list five things I love about Kondo’s 2011 mega-bestseller, “The Life-changing Magic of Tidying up.” It teaches you to tidy by category, not by…
A Book with the Power to Shift a Paradigm
Every once in a great while, you encounter a book that has the power to change everything—both in your personal life, and in the world at large. Michael Pollan’s latest, “How to Change your Mind,” is one such book. Ever since it was published in May 2018, “How to Change Your Mind” has almost single-handedly…
The Evolution of a Reader
When I was in college, I was so confused about what I truly wanted to read that not even Paul Ingram, legendary bookseller at Prairie Lights, could steer me in the right direction. Poor Paul couldn’t have known that I was making reading choices based on what I thought I should like (literary fiction) instead…
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