By mattr on September 6, 2009
I’ve invested some time in reading some highly recommended business/excellence books recently, and whilst I don’t suggest that you go away and read all of these, just one of the following 3 in your next Amazon order will reap maximum benefits.
Nicholas Bate – Instant MBA- 52 great ways to think like a top MBA [...]
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By mattr on January 12, 2009
I picked this up in my favourite second hand bookshop before Christmas to fuel my addiction to travel related literature, especially about inhospitable places.
True North documents the writers travels around the countries of Arctic Europe, including Iceland, Greenland, Lapland and Svalbard – and throws some interesting light on these cold and unforgiving countries.
Weaving historical [...]
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By mattr on September 28, 2008
I read this during my recent trip to Seattle, an impulse buy as I was waiting in Terminal 4. As always, a tough book to read, with hardcore subject matter.
Welsh creates some good characters as he develops the story of a Scottish cop, holidaying in Florida with his fiancée as he tries to [...]
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By mattr on July 23, 2008
Get yourself over to ‘Blog a Holiday Read’ courtesy of Penguin and register yourself smartish. You can receive a free book, on the provision that you blog a review of it.
I got ‘The Great Gatsby’ – and I’m looking forward to reading it this summer!
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By mattr on July 13, 2008
One of my favourite books of recent years has made it to the big screen – with the impending release of Choke by Chuck Palahniuk.
The (NSFW) trailer is good enough to keep me going, but I can’t wait to see this.
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By mattr on July 2, 2008
I’m not a big reader of crime fiction – especially those murder mystery type affairs where an enigmatic cop find his way through a labyrinth of information to arrest the psychopath – that’s too much like my day job.
However – someone bought my a hardback of Broken Skin for my birthday last year, and [...]
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By mattr on July 1, 2008
Whilst I was looking at information about the new James Bond film, I noticed that Daniel Craig is due to play the devil (alongside Ewan McGregor as the main character – Declan Gunn) in a movie based on one of my favourite books of recent years.
I, Lucifer by Glen Duncan tells the story of [...]
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By mattr on June 23, 2008
Interesting article in the Guardian by Mark Lawson this morning about publicists trying to release movies, books and TV shows without critics even seeing them – to save potential bad reviews.
It seems that increasingly the press are only getting to see movies at the very first public screenings (Friday afternoon on the day of release), [...]
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By mattr on June 20, 2008
After finishing Devil May Care, I decided that I needed to read more of Sebastian Faulks work, so I plumped for ‘Engleby’ first. After finishing it late last night, I’m glad I did – it is an absolute corker of a book.
Engleby is the story of a man who wins scholarships to first a [...]
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By mattr on May 31, 2008
I picked up a copy of the new James Bond book on Wednesday evening, after unfruitful trips to a couple of bookshops where it had sold out I had given up trying to find one and thought I would wait until I could get one from Amazon, but just as I walked through the train [...]
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