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Minjin Choi minjinchoi — This book had potential but failed miserably.

Louis Winyard-sears _aws_i_lustrations — I have this book on audio CD read by the author. He is both a wonderful writer and an excellent narrator. I'm sure we'll hear a lot more from him. He's seems to be fairly bursting with fresh ideas, and a new, and uniquely insightful point of view. In this book, Gladwell, a masterful synthesist, skillfully draws from a wide range of fields to support his characteristically intriguing conclusions. He reveals and provides insight into the mostly unconscious mental process by which we actually make most of our important decisions, for which he uses the term "thin-slicing", a skill that can be developed, and at which certain individuals demonstrate exceptionally keen natural acumen, applying it in a wide variety of dissimilar fields. The term thin-slicing was coined by psychologists (led by people like Robert Rosenthal and Nalina Ambady) who were interested in the human tendency to draw conclusions about situations and people based on very "thin slices" of experience. He's also written another book called "The Tipping Point" about how ideas are disseminated through social groups, and populations in general. Here he provides a fascinating explanation of sudden social changes and the development of the fast chains of information that effect a variety of vastly disparate trend patterns. He postulates that they spread in a manner similar to the way in which viruses spread, with implications as to both the controlling and spreading of ideas. This makes sense when you realize that virus cells are made up almost entirely of information in the form of DNA. He's got another book called "Spreading the Idea Virus" which is on my list to read soon.

Ola Afifi oafifi9261f06 — Oh, Anderson, how do I love thee. And I love you even more after reading this book. This is not a straight memoir, but weaves pieces of Cooper's life in with accounts of big stories he covered in 2005: the tsunami, Iraq, hurricane Katrina... Well written and a quick read, very honest about what drives Cooper to cover stories all over the globe and what his reactions are to events that we all see on tv.

Emaad Shaikh chaosfists — I'm generally not a huge fan of collected stories. I'm always disappointed by their length---I'm too greedy a reader and always want more. For Jhumpa Lahiri's collection, which I read more than a decade after it was first published and won the Pulitzer prize in 2000, I'll make an exception. What a talent this YOUNG writer has. She was less than 40 years old when this came out. My favorites were: The Third and Final Continent, in which an Indian man moves to America in 1969 to work at the MIT library. He boards with a woman, who, unbeknownst to him, is 103 years old and senile. The story of their relationship and those of his new arranged-marriage bride were utterly endearing. I suppose that living abroad has made the ex-pat stories in this collection especially compelling for me. When Mr. Pirzada Comes to Dine is the sweet tale of a newly exiled man from Dacca, also working at an American university, who comes to the child narrator's house for dinner each evening, bearing sweets for her as he discusses the fate of his wife and children back in his homeland during the Pakistan civil war of 1971 with her parents. Another story, Mrs. Sen's, involves 11-year old Eliot's afternoons spent with his babysitter Mrs. Sen, the wife of an Indian college professor teaching in America. It underlines, like the others, the loneliness of a new exile and his or her adaptation to a new country and the surprising or not surprising people who make connections with them.

Patti Fick patsky134df3 — Oh, how I love this series! There were some very sad moments in this one, but overall it was much happier than the previous book. I did not want this book to end, but it did, and the author ended it quite perfectly. Keir of the Cat is most definitely in my best heroes ever list, but Lara is a pretty awesome heroine, too.