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This Week I are mostly reading (contd)

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    #8132
    Callan57
    Registered Users Posts: 4,160 ✭✭✭Callan57


    Started Why I'm No Longer Talking About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge


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    #8133
    pinking
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    Does anyone have any good autobiographies from successful people? I'm nearly finished reading An Independent Man by F1 legend Eddie Jordan. I'd like a good list, or to be pointed to a good list of books I can work my way through by the end of the year. I'm about half way through this list too and I would highly recommend Shoe Dog about the founder of Nike!


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    #8134
    otnomart
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    pinking wrote: »
    Does anyone have any good autobiographies from successful people? I'm nearly finished reading An Independent Man by F1 legend Eddie Jordan. I'd like a good list, or to be pointed to a good list of books I can work my way through by the end of the year. I'm about half way through this list too and I would highly recommend Shoe Dog about the founder of Nike!


    They usually use ghost writers anyway; I prefer the proper biographies.

    I enjoyed War Paint: Madame Helena Rubinstein and Miss Elizabeth Arden: Their Lives, Their Times, Their Rivalry


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    #8135
    The White Feather
    Registered Users Posts: 5,425 ✭✭✭The White Feather


    pinking wrote: »
    Does anyone have any good autobiographies from successful people?


    Here is a list of ones that I have read. Some are better than others. The links are to the reviews I did in my reading log here. They are all successful people

    1. It's time by Bruce Buffer
    2. Win or Learn by John Kavanagh
    3. Never grow up by Jackie Chan
    4. Back from the Brink by Paul McGrath
    5. Fighter by Andy Lee
    6. Hooligan by Paddy Holohan
    7. The Art of Learning by Josh Waitzkin
    8. Believe me by Eddie Izzard
    9. The 10x Rule by Grant Cardone
    10. The Big Fight by Sugar Ray Leonard
    11. Total Recall by Arnold Schwarzenegger

    The best one is Total Recall. An brilliant autobiography mixed with motivation.
    After that probably Grant Cardone, Josh Waitzkin, Jackie Chan and Sugar Ray Leonard. But either read my review or look them up online to see if they interest you.


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    #8136
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    Total Recall has been put to the top of my list.

    While we're touching on non-fiction, I'm currently reading Ireland in 250 Episodes. It's a history of Ireland that had originally been written for 250 5-minute radio segments for BBC N Ireland and it starts at ice age and goes right up to modern history. So it's a whole bunch of very readable and concise tellings of Irish history, but seems to be well researched. I've learned a lot :-)


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    #8137
    Callan57
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    Finishing Fifty Fifty by Steve Cavanagh ... bit disappointed in it to be honest, didn't really deliver on the hype.

    Listening to Tidelands by Phillipa Gregory on Borrowbox


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    #8138
    jive
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    Found a blog ranking the top 100 novels. Said I’d read the top 50 so to kick off with a bang I decided to bite the bullet and start with a challenging one.

    Currently half way through Ulysses...christ it is long


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    #8139
    Wyldwood
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    Finished John Boyne's A Traveller at the Gates of Wisdom. A bit underwhelmed by it. It's quite confusing for the first few chapters and then the story keeps repeating through the years while referencing many major historic events but is slow. Doesn't live up to some of Boyne's other books.


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    #8140
    Callan57
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    Going to bed with Here is the Beehive by Sarah Crossan


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    #8141
    eire4
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    Finished Kelley Armstrong's Bitten the first book in her werewolf series and enjoyed it a fun read.


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    #8142
    eire4
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    Finished Michael Moynihan's GAAconomics. Basically an in depth look at money in the GAA given that Gaelic games are amateur sports. Thought it was very interesting and a good behind the scenes look at how the GAA works from a financial perspective at all angles.


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    #8143
    Callan57
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    Strange Flowers by Donal Ryan & The Gift by Edith Eger lined up next


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    #8144
    Xofpod
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    Really enjoying Last Ones Left Alive, Sarah Davis-Goff, Irish post-apocalyptic zombie type stuff.


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    #8145
    Callan57
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    The Survivors by Jane Harper and on audio The Hand that first held mine by Maggie O'Farrell


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    #8146
    eire4
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    Finished Kelley Armstrong's Stolen the second book in her werewolf series and enjoyed it. A fun read.


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    #8147
    Ixanthink
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    I’m reading American Dirt. Is anyone else reading this mind-blowing book??


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    #8148
    Sinister Kid
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    Started It takes Blood & Guts, Skin form Skink Anansie's Biography.
    I'm listning to it on audio, Skin reads it herself - I just love her voice!


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    #8149
    Busi_Girl08
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    On Midnight Library now, really enjoying it so far.


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    #8150
    Callan57
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    Sarah's Key by Gilles Paquet-Brenner & on audio The Darkest Evening by Ann Cleeves


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    #8151
    Daisies
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    Currently reading Rodham and Black and British.


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    #8152
    Xofpod
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    Started Ragtime, E.L.Doctorow. Don't know much about his writing except that he wrote Billy Bathgate, the movie of which I remember being hugely disappointed by years ago...
    The book is good so far.


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    #8153
    Wyldwood
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    Finished The Mercies by Kiran Millwood Hargrave. Highly recommend it.

    Next up Wild by Kristin Hannah.


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    #8154
    otnomart
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    Callan57 wrote: »
    Sarah's Key by Gilles Paquet-Brenner & on audio The Darkest Evening by Ann Cleeves



    I watched the movie from Sarah's Key and loved it.


    Big fan of Shetland and Vera here, but haven't read anything by Ann Cleeves, yet. I have recently bought The Long Call and will get to it soon.


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    #8155
    Boulevardier
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    I have just finished The Searcher by Tana French.

    I am a big fan of this writer, but I found this book deeply unsatisfying.

    The plot resolution is disappointing. French's novels often have a sense of tragic loss, but they usually also have some sort of acceptable closure. This one does not.

    Also, the writer's normally good knowledge of Irish dialogue and terminology has let her down, for example the untypical use of the term "townland", and a tendency towards paddywhackery on the part of some of the local characters.


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    #8156
    eire4
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    Finished a re read of Herge's Adventures of Tintin Book 5 which featured The Land of Black Gold and the 2 part Destination Moon and Explorers on the Moon. Always fun to have a re read of my favourite graphic novels growing up.


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    #8157
    Wyldwood
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    Finished Kristen Hannah's Wild, didn't live up to the premise. I think Hannah peaked with The Nightingale.

    Next up 10 Minutes 38 seconds in This Strange World by Elif Shafak.


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    #8158
    Callan57
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    A Traveller at the Gates of Wisdom by John Boyne


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    #8159
    Xofpod
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    Life, Keith Richards.


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    #8160
    eire4
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    Finished book 3 of Kelley Armstrong's otherworld series. This one focusing on the witches introduced in the previous book and another fun read.


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    #8161
    TICKLE_ME_ELMO
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    Started reading The Psychology of Time Travel this afternoon. Got through nearly 100 pages in one sitting. I already think it's going to be one of the best of the year for me.


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