I wanted to continue the ‘one-person Book Club’ theme of last month. Here’s what I’ve read in July 2022. I don’t know about you, but I seem to have books coming out my ears at the moment! There’s one on my bedside table, one in the lounge, one on the tablet and plenty waiting to be read. I’m enjoying keeping up with my challenge of averaging one book a week. I started writing this on 23rd and realised that I only had 2 books to put up so far; better get reading!
The Kindness Method
Shahroo Izadi
If you’re looking to change habits and stick to them, then this book lays the foundation to do that. Shahroo advocates being kind to yourself and provides a series of exercises to produce mind maps to which you can refer when the whole habit shifting thing gets tricky. This is a book I’d like to go back to to try out the method. I’ll give it a 4/5.
Killing State
Judith O’Reilly
An enjoyable book that I felt was a bit slow going to begin with. I thought the characters were interesting. Judith uses a style of what I would call ‘thought writing’ where thoughts are interspersed with speech. It was an interesting writing style and one I found tricky to follow at times. Nevertheless, this was a good page turner and I’d give it a 3.5/5.
101 Business Ideas That Will Change the Way You Work
Antonio E. Weiss
I really enjoyed this book. It was so good at communicating research into no nonsense language that I wrote a separate blog post
on it. So I’d give this one a 4/5.
Strong Female Lead – Lessons From Women in Power
Arwa Mahdawi
Definitely a book to read. Highlights how we need to change leadership styles to those that are traditionally seen from women in power. Evidence backed up by lots of examples, though I would liked to have seen even more so it felt slightly less cherry picked. 4/5
The Highly Sensitive Person
Elaine N. Aron
This is the first book that I haven’t finished with these Book Club posts. I liked the idea, but I found it too repetitive and just couldn’t get into the flow of it. The concept of highly sensitive people is a valid one and makes sense, so it’s worth a read on that basis. However, not for me. 1.5/5.