1. Breakthrough Rapid Reading - So that I can read faster and get more reading in. Ironically, I haven't touched this book in a couple weeks because I'm too busy reading other things.
2. The Eyewitness History of the Church - Volume 2 - If I had a book club I would recommend this one. To me history is much more real and interesting when you look at it from the perspective of the ones living it. This book goes through events in church history and gives correlating excerpts from people's journals and other written communications.
3. This I Believe - An essay collection from NPR where people (some famous and some just average americans) attempt to explain their personal philosophies on life. Suprisingly interesting.
4. Practical Idealists - Discusses how to focus your studies and your career so that you will be prepared to be able to make money helping people. Interersting so far, but I'm only in the second chapter.
5. The Art of Mingling - Do you feel awkward and out of place at large social functions, especially when you don't know anyone? If so, according to the author, you (along with 90% of America) have "minglephobia." This book is surprisingly fun and helpful to read, though you have to take it with a grain of salt, because most of the "tactics" discussed are geared towards having fun, sometimes at the expense of others, and not building relationships.
6. Crucial Conversations - This book keeps coming up in conversations - I swear it's the unofficial second bible for the Marriot School. So I decided to check it out. It teaches how to handle the difficult conversations in our life. I'm sure it's helpful, but when you're reading five other books at the same time, something this mundane is never at the top of the pile, and thus I'm still in chapter 2 after three weeks.
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Oh Geez does this happen to me a lot.
For example, I'm reading an introduction to Medieval History, at which point I shall read another, in addiotion to a lot of German wikipedia on the subject, and a German history of the Crusades. I also am learning Gothic and Anglo-Saxon at the same time, which is very difficult because they are extremely similiar and I mix them up constantly. And then there's Old Irish, which comes from Satan (mainly because it does not demonstrate obviously many of the features which one comes to expect in Indo-European. Oh God, and I've forgotten Greek and Latin!
Whatever, it's all a review by the time you get to your fourth IE language, and Gothic helps to bridge the differences between Latin/Greek and German.
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