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Reading business books. LIVE!
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Been meaning to set a blog like this up for a while now. It’s basically a blog where I can share quotes and stuff from business books I’m currently reading.
Check it out and see what I’m reading right now.
There’s never been a better time to buy a Sony Reader in Ireland
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I’ve been keeping an eye on the price of the Sony Reader Touch and see that D.I.D. Electrical are offering it for €249.95 in store this weekend. Oddly, if you buy it direct on the website it will set you back €278.95.
The Power City price has been pegged at €249.95 for a couple of months now. Today I noticed that it’s now selling for €232.45, presumably in reaction to the D.I.D. offer.
If you’ve been thinking about investing in an electronic reader I don’t think you can go wrong with the Sony offering. At this price, I think I may upgrade my old PRS-505.
In praise of male chauvinism at Kennys.ie
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If you’re looking to buy any books this week, Kennys.ie have a special promotion running at the moment.
On orders over €25, you can select from a list of free books. One that caught my eye was this one – ‘In Praise of Male Chauvinism’. It is described by Kennys as follows :
“Paperback ~ 64pp. 8vo. An amusing volume, not to be taken too seriously”
I really don’t understand why praise for this subject is not to be taken seriously though.
Some other titles available in the promotion are :
‘The Bus and Coach Industry: Its Economics and Organization’. This 1975 publication is the one still in use at Dublin Bus and Bus Eireann, so get it while it’s hot. Don’t worry girls, there is a book on sewing for you as well entitled ‘Sew News Timesaving Tips’.
Kennys have free shipping on books too, so there’s never been a better time to give an Irish bookseller some of your business.
Back of fag box book review – As God Commands by Niccolo Ammaniti
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Text of review reads:
To think of Italy is to conjur up images of beautiful women, wonderful scenery and mouth watering food. The Italy portrayed in this book is very different. We follow the lives of a cast of characters in a small Italian village over a period of 6 days. They are a sorry bunch living desperate lives in an economically depressed area.
The introduction to 13 year old Cristiano and his alcoholic father, Rino, gives some measure of what is to come. The boy is woken from his sleep and ordered to shoot a dog to stop its incessant barking. Despite the boy living in terror of his father, he truly loves him.
Rino and his drinking buddies hatch a plan to rob an ATM believing it will lead to a better life. The story moves at a breathtaking pace leading up to the night of the robbery and the tragedy that unfolds. Violent, tragic, tender, melancholic, loving, brutal & humourous are all words that spring to mind as I try to sum up this stunning example of human emotions in raw form.
An absolute gem.
Rating 5 out of 5
Instead of a header here’s something about Oz
Posted by: | CommentsWasn’t in the mood for firing up the main computer today, scouring flickr for images and photoshopping a new header. Instead, I offer you this quote from Salman Rushdie’s account of the Wizard of Oz. Published by the British Film Institute, this book is a wonderful insight into the much loved classic.
“So Oz finally became home, the imagined world became the actual world, as it does for us all, because the truth is that once we have left our childhoold places and started out to make up our lives, armed only with what we have and are, we understand that the real secret of the ruby slippers is not that ‘there’s no place like home’, but rather that there is no longer any such place as home: except, of course, for the home we make, or the homes that are made for us, in Oz: which is anywhere, and everywhere, except the place from where we began.”
Now, I’m off to see the Wizard.
