I am taking a short break from blogging/tweeting/facebooking/texting and email. Just finished and liked The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo by Steig Larson. I am looking forward to reading non work books – a bio of FDR, a memoir by keynoter and coach, Shirley Garrett – A Tap Water Girl in a Bottled Water World and Sara Gruen’s Water for Elephants.
I also plan on checking out Daniel Pink’s top 10 books from this year. Any other suggestions are welcome! What book have you not been able to put down?
Happy Holidays to All!
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“Much of my work as a virtual assistant involves social media these
days. Initially, this was much easier for me to handle as an
(extreme) introvert. Strangely enough, I find that as friend counts
climb and the volume of online communication grows, I react with the
same sense of overwhelm, stress and exhaustion as I do to live or
phone communications. Have you heard this from others?”, she asks. Continue reading the rest of this article...
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Have a great break and enjoy all that introverted reading! I’ve just discovered your work via the Forbes online article that Beth Quick quoted last week. I’ve ordered your book from Amazon UK and am looking forward to that, the material here and the email updates from About You.
Just discovered your blog (also from the Forbes article), I’ll use your break to catch-up
I loved Water for Elephants, got lost in it and couldn’t put it down. My most recent read was Maus. Another book that I was surprised to find myself unable to put down.