Book Reviews

Posted on August 24, 2009 - By Sharon Lindenburger
Wise book - Start Where You Are by Chris Gardner
My 5***** ratings

You may recognize the name Chris Gardner if you saw the movie, “The Pursuit of Happyness”. Will Smith starred as Chris Gardner, a man who literally lived homeless on the street for over a year, along with his young son, while he tried to make his life better and to fulfill the promise that he [...]

Posted on June 17, 2009 - By Sharon Lindenburger
Wise book - This is Water, by David Foster Wallace
My 5***** ratings

The book, This is Water by David Foster Wallace is such a small book, you can literally read it in 10 minutes. Yet it contains priceless wisdom and is a literary gem. Wallace was well-known as a novelist, university professor, and philosopher.
Throughout his life, he was plagued by clinical depression, and in 2008 committed [...]