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Books completed 2009

photo by Ember Rilleau

1. Learned Optimism-Martin Seligman
2. Everything is Illuminated-Jonathan Safran Foer
3. Song Man-Will Hodgkinson
4. The Optimistic Child- Martin Seligman
5. The Art of Possibility- Rosamund Stone Zander, Benjamin Zander
6. Getting things done (reread)- David Allen
7. So long, See you tomorrow (reread)-William Maxwell
8. Down at the Docks-Rory Gallagher
9. Not Just Anywhere-Marsha McCabe
10. Happiness-Mathieu Ricard
11. Wind, sand and stars-St. Exupery
12. Peace is Every Step-Thich Nhat Hanh
13. Finding Flow-Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
14. The money book for the Young Fabulous and Broke-Suze Orman
15. The Sweet LIfe in Paris-David Lebovitz
16. Siddhartha-Herman Hesse
17. Never eat alone-Keith Ferrazzi
18. 4 Hour Work Week (reread)-Tim Ferriss

My reviews in brief:
completely worth your time: 1, 2, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 16
eh: 3, 4, 15
nah: 13, 17
grain of salt/open mind+eyes: 5, 18

There were 3 or 4 books I started and did not finish. A couple sucked and a couple I recognize as good, but not currently appropriate.

Fiction/Literature-5
NonFiction-13
Ratio 2.6/1

2010 is the year of Fiction.

Fairhaven Mills Exhibit, Oct 3-4, New Bedford

As part of New Bedford Open Studios, October 3-4, EM lettepress is showing photos by 4 artists on the final days of Fairhaven Mills An historic building recently demolished. I am one of those artists.

The Health Care "Debate"

Thanks to Toby Everett, who is not so much against it, as bemused by it.

Showtime

Nice.
but jugglers hate that guy.
So they do things like this:

Kodachrome

William (Buckles) Woodcock has a circus history blog with tons of images. He's an old-time circus man with a long history (at least his Dad was an elephant man, maybe further back, I don't know).

With the demise of Kodachrome, and my recent circus visiting binge, I thought these images would be nice to look at.