reading notes

Trusting your own deepest experience
by Sharon Salzberg
ISBN: 1573223409
First, there are two things this book isn’t: dogmatic or proselytizing. I want to be clear about that, because I think there might be a tendency to assume any book about faith must be. It isn’t particularly New Agey, either. (Or maybe that’s just me, revealing my [...]

Are you indispensable?
by Seth Godin
ISBN: 9781591843160
Is this a business book? Marketing? Should it be in the (cringe) self help section? It’s tempting to say all of the above. I wrote a blog post about this book last week, describing the main ideas with this venn diagram:

So the book is about asking yourself tough questions: [...]

The street art of Slinkachu
ISBN: 9780752226644
The tagline from Slinkachu’s blog may put it best: this is about “little handpainted people, left in London to fend for themselves”.
The book is a collection of photographs of these little people. They are models set up in urban locations, and the jarring quality of the images comes not [...]

by Aimee Bender
ISBN: 9780982525401
This is the first book in the first series put out by Madras Press (I just wrote about Sweet Tomb by Trinie Dalton, also part of the series). I really love these square little books. They clearly demonstrate a single short story can be worthy of a book all on its own. [...]

by Trinie Dalton
ISBN: 9780982525432
One of the first four single short story/novella books published by Madras Press in December, all I knew about this book was that it featured a sugar addicted witch named Candy.
Of course I put it on my Christmas list.
I figured it would be fun and weird and I was not [...]