The biggest challenge for me is that these are all paper books on my actual bookshelves -- I have been reading only e-books since you, yourself, made a convert out of me in May 2009. The books I grabbed for this challenge had a thick layer of dust on them and cracking them open is going to be... interesting.
So what are you going to start with? I am going to go for The Richest Man in Babylon. One, because it is the shortest and two, because I suspect it may also be the most useful.
Interesting side note: I've owned this book for over 20 years. Wow. That's a lot of traveling for a slim book to never be read. It was recommended to me in high school by one of my favorite teachers, a guy you also know: Michael Pollack. He swore by its sound financial advice.
Probably should have read it back then when I was young and still impressionable, but hey! It's never too late to learn, right?
So what's your first book?
love,
kelly
I left a comment for this a few days ago? Did it drop down the Memory Hole?
ReplyDeleteI don't see any lurking as an "Unpublished Comment," so it must have gotten lost in space. What was it?
ReplyDeleteI don't even remember. Perhaps, I think, my amazement that you'd kept this book for 20 years. I'm sure it's the Michael Pollack effect. He was a good guy.
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