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19 billets, du plus récent au plus ancien.
This book is about making your ideas hit your audience and being remembered. The authors state that there are 5 aspects that need to be considered, making up the acronym SUCCESs. S: Simple - Find the core of your message. Express the core message simply.…
Lire le billet « Made to Stick, Chip and Dan Heath » →This is a great book. The author is Chinese-American. She spent a few years in Dongguan, China, following the life of a few factory girls. These girls moved from a rural area to city life in search of wealth, adventure, meaning, … I like the author’s positive approach.…
Lire le billet « Factory girls: Voices from the heart of China, by Leslie T. Chang » →This book illustrates the large difference in wealth as well as the corruption in India. It relates the story of an Indian boy from a poor rural area that goes up the ladder. The main character appears to be smart and naive at the same time.…
Lire le billet « The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga » →This is a very easy plane read. The book gets you hooked from the start on the intrigue of a disappeared college student. However, there is nothing to learn from this book.
Lire le billet « Deal Breaker, Harlan Coben » →It is the story of a schizophrenic teenager that escapes from a mental institution. Lowboy is convinced that his aim is to save the world from global warming. He thinks he can achieve his goal by cooling down his own body through sexual intercourse. It is also the story of a mother and a detective in search of a missing schizophrenic.…
Lire le billet « Lowboy, John Wray » →Thanks to a friend, I discovered a place where to buy second-hand books in English and French, in the Tokyo area. The shop is named “Book-off”. It is located in Shirokanedai. There are many shops from this chain in Tokyo. However, till now, I know of only one that has a rather large variety of second-hand books that are not in Japanese.…
Lire le billet « Second-hand books » →This is a short book by a famous female Japanese author. Her main character feels secure and finds comfort in kitchens after the death of her grandmother. It is a story about the loss of loved ones, orphanage, sadness and hope. I enjoyed reading this book because of its touch of hope.…
Lire le billet « Kitchen, Banana Yoshimoto » →This book deals with our inability to expect events that may have a great impact. This is due to our inability of seeing the global picture. Our brain is made such that events are summarized, categorized according to patterns, causality, … The author highlights some common reasoning errors.…
Lire le billet « The black swan, Nassim Nicholas Taleb » →I enjoyed this book a lot. It is much better than Norwegian Wood by the same author. The story is very strange. A group of kids collapse in a clearing. A man can talk to cats. A teenager believes to have killed his father remotely. Bit by bit, all the pieces fit together.…
Lire le billet « Kafka on the shore, Haruki Murakami » →