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I just finished Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking. The CEO at Brian's last company gave them out to everyone (I guess he had distributed The Tipping Point a year or so before that, prior to Brian worked there) and its been on our shelf since then. In making an effort to work through the books we already own or to utilize the library, I've been finding a lot of gems on our shelves.
The book is a bit repetitive (probably the author's way of reinforcing his points) but it does draw a bit on fundamentals of perception and psychology, and it was neat to revisit some of the stuff I haven't thought much about since undergraduate Psych at Simmons. The overall suggestion that our mind works very quick and behind the scenes (sometimes to our benefit and sometimes not) is a reasonable one, though he doesn't give many tips on how to perfect this art beyond practice, practice, practice.
Before picking up Blink I quickly got through Tea with Miss Rose, which the Tiggerette gave me for a birthday in the past. Its a nice picture of the Boston Brahmin 'Teacup Society' and was very reminiscent of a book I read at some point about Alba Vanderbilt (wrong time frame) and her efforts at political influence through entertainment. The book is part history, part personal memoir, part recipe book and reviews a bit of the practices followed in the tea culture of that time. Ironically enough, they mention a tea company that Miss Rose used to purchase hers from that's still in business today out in Concord, MA http://www.marktwendell.com/ (who I found some tins of in the Moody Street tea shop http://www.thetealeaf.us/ this past Saturday). This book definitely brings a lot of inspiration for both cooking and spending time with friends.
Other recent additions included http://walthamcookbook.org/Home_Page.html (which has some recipes submitted by my Aunt, though they spelled "Scafidi" incorrectly) and Tales of the Beedle Bard, which we picked up on Saturday at http://www.backpagesbooks.com/NASApp/store/IndexJsp . The first I've read already and the second will be a quick one. I'm thinking one of my New Year's projects will be to go through my bookshelves to conduct some more weeding out, and put aside the ones I have yet to read on a particular shelf.
The book is a bit repetitive (probably the author's way of reinforcing his points) but it does draw a bit on fundamentals of perception and psychology, and it was neat to revisit some of the stuff I haven't thought much about since undergraduate Psych at Simmons. The overall suggestion that our mind works very quick and behind the scenes (sometimes to our benefit and sometimes not) is a reasonable one, though he doesn't give many tips on how to perfect this art beyond practice, practice, practice.
Before picking up Blink I quickly got through Tea with Miss Rose, which the Tiggerette gave me for a birthday in the past. Its a nice picture of the Boston Brahmin 'Teacup Society' and was very reminiscent of a book I read at some point about Alba Vanderbilt (wrong time frame) and her efforts at political influence through entertainment. The book is part history, part personal memoir, part recipe book and reviews a bit of the practices followed in the tea culture of that time. Ironically enough, they mention a tea company that Miss Rose used to purchase hers from that's still in business today out in Concord, MA http://www.marktwendell.com/ (who I found some tins of in the Moody Street tea shop http://www.thetealeaf.us/ this past Saturday). This book definitely brings a lot of inspiration for both cooking and spending time with friends.
Other recent additions included http://walthamcookbook.org/Home_Page.html (which has some recipes submitted by my Aunt, though they spelled "Scafidi" incorrectly) and Tales of the Beedle Bard, which we picked up on Saturday at http://www.backpagesbooks.com/NASApp/store/IndexJsp . The first I've read already and the second will be a quick one. I'm thinking one of my New Year's projects will be to go through my bookshelves to conduct some more weeding out, and put aside the ones I have yet to read on a particular shelf.
