false 84 732 634 true 5786607 read 1 true 2114851 currently-reading 97 true 2114850 to-read 15 false 7173841 fiction 14 false 5260508 social-issues 10 false 5562092 brain-science 6 false 5562098 science-fiction-fantasy 4 false 6695482 spirituality 4 false 5342509 future 4 false 5562093 philosophy 3 false 5260507 family 3 false 5553318 success 3 false 5342510 health 2 false 5562091 biology 2 false 7173886 poetry 2 false 7247447 business 2 false 6388629 politics 2 false 5260509 civil-rights 2 false 5260506 australia 1 false 5536596 mysteries 1 false 5260449 maybe-later 1 false 5542980 literary-criticism 1 false 5543121 biography 1 false 5543118 history 1 false 5553342 education 0 false 7436413 did-not-read http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78000433 to: The Abortion: An Historical Romance 1966 (hardback) by Richard Brautigan
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78000406 to: A Confederate General from Big Sur (Paperback) by Richard Brautigan
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18714635 to: The Passion of the Western Mind: Understanding the Ideas that Have Shaped Our World View (Paperback) by Richard Tarnas
bookshelves: currently-reading, philosophy
Profound overview, if that isn't an oxymoron, of the development of ideas within the context of Occidental history by a Jungian scholar. Highly recommended. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71059759 to: The Songbird In My Heart (Paperback) by Mark Steven Rhoads
bookshelves: spirituality
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76548207 The Trout Opera (Hardcover) by Matthew Condon
bookshelves: australia, to-read
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71866898 to: American Adulterer: A novel (Hardcover) by Jed Mercurio
bookshelves: fiction
Fairly conventional novel based on JFK's life and psychology, as known to the author. Good for passing the time. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71059402 to: A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future (Audio CD) by Daniel H. Pink
bookshelves: brain-science, business, success
An interesting and frustrating book. I listened to the CD version and felt like it was hours of infomercial for the right brain. Maybe the book would have gone down easier. His point that our culture is moving from the Information Age into a Conceptual Age makes sense, at least for parts of our culture, but his conclusion that the way to succeed in the Conceptual Age is to do work at the highest levels of creativity will undoubtedly be useless to most of us. Our brains simply do not work that way, and they won't work that way, regardless of how many classes we take to develop the right halves. Further, his assumption that India and other outsourcing provider countries will content themselves with absorbing off-shored left brain Information Age jobs as America, Japan and Western Europe rocket into the Conceptual Age probably won't play out. India is already producing some highly creative IT work and will no doubt continue to develop more creative workers, since that is the direction the global economy is driving all of us. Likewise for China. I think it more likely that, as with the divergence of Information Age from Industrial Age work paths, the Conceptual Age work will be done in countries all around the world, and even in the US we will have a large number of unemployed and underemployed Information Age workers subsisting on low wages as they compete with their Indian peers.

So, I would say that he raises some good points but that his conclusions do not follow from his evidence. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75764069 South of the Border, West of the Sun (Hardcover) by Haruki Murakami
bookshelves: to-read
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69466393 to: The Edison Gene: ADHD and the Gift of the Hunter Child (Paperback) by Thom Hartmann
bookshelves: brain-science, family, health
Insightful, historically-based view of the advantages of having a mind that won't stay still but rather moves rapidly, and powerfully, from task to task. I love the way Thom Hartmann can see the positive side, the opportunity, hidden in a way of being that is anathema to educators. ]]>