vanessafox | Shared With: Everyone - Jan 15 2008 | books
A review that captures how I felt about the 4-hour workweek.
Quoted: To put it another way, The 4-Hour Workweek is one of the least mindful books I’ve ever read.
- vanessafox | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 18 2008 | books, food
Quoted: A guidebook and maps for eating oysters of North America. Covers oyster appellations, origin, flavor and appearance of a healthy, sustainable, farmed seafood.
- vanessafox | Shared With: Everyone - Feb 17 2008 | coffee, seattle, books
Interesting topic, but according to the review, not exactly well-written, sadly.
Apparently a nearby Starbucks helps local mom and pop coffee places, rather than hurts them.
And Starbucks only started making money when they started opening stores close to each other. Huh.
Quoted: . Is the fair trade movement ultimately good for the growers? Is it OK to peddle an addictive substance in such quantities? Is coffee beneficial ...
- vanessafox | Shared With: Everyone - Jan 26 2008 | books
We should all read Lolita to get smarter. Avoid the Bible.
ShareViewed: 6 Times - vanessafox | Shared With: Everyone - Jan 23 2008 | books, time, life, clutter
I'm so much better now with clutter than I was before, but I feel that I have to be vigilant so it doesn't creep back in.
- vanessafox | Shared With: Everyone - Jan 20 2008 | books
So loved reading as a child. And erm, now.
Quoted: Our mindset has to change. We have to stop proclaiming reading as a ladder to academic success. Treated simply as an educational commodity, some kind of pill to be taken to aid intellectual development, it is all too often counter-productive and ultimately alienating.
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