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Reviews of energy and finance related books - a project that I started in 2000.
It takes roughly one hour to get anywhere in London, which gives me plenty of time to read. As I dislike waiting, especially at airports, paperbacks come in quite handy. These are called "personal book reviews" because they are more of a review and reflection than a critique.
I began writing personal book reviews to remember what I read and share the important points with others. At first it was an exercise in writing. Eventually it became a good way to get good books and provide a service for new authors. After editing my first book in 2003, I understand why book reviews are essential for publicity and sale of a new book, particularly for new authors.
If you have a book you'd like to get reviewed, please contact me. Please describe the book, which category it belongs to (fiction, nonfiction, self-help, romance, etc), yourself, why you wrote the book, and what kinds of readers you hope to reach.
I will only write and publish a book review on this website if it is worth my readers' time. In many cases, a book not worth reviewing or in danger of damaging a first author's future, I would prefer to give you personal feedback instead. In general, I have a backlog of requests for book reviews but I welcome e-mail solicitations all the same. My reviews usually creep up to the top ten in google rankings after a short period.
Although I like to read all kinds of books, at the moment I am looking for ones on Buddhism, music composition & performance, piano teaching, writing, cooking, humour, travel, self-help, and literary fiction particularly based on a person's own life story. I am particularly interested in fiction based on historical figures or periods to do with music.
updated 7 March 2009
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by Kevin Kelly
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1999 hb 254 pages
Being Digital
1995 pb 249 pages
The
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2000 pb 364 pages
Designing
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2000 pb 420 pages
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1998 pb 255 pages
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1999 pb 264 pages
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Colour Logic for Web Site Design
1998 e-book
The Complete Colour Reference Manual
1997 e-book
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Information Rules
1999 hb 352
Smart
Choices
1999 hb
The Revenge of Brand X
by Rob Frankel
New Rules for the New
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Kevin Kelly
1998 pb 179 pages
Energy
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by Benjamin F. HOBBS, Peter MEIER
House
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by Lynn Brewer,
2002,
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Change Thrivers: Your Resource Guide for Making Change Work
by Afsaneh Noori,
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by CJ Green
e-book 106 pages
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pb 195 pages
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by Myron D. Lewis, MSW
pb 216 pages
Family Secrets:
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1995 pb 297
Many
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1988 pb 220 pages
Transforming
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1996, pb 263 pages
Happy to be single: the
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1993 pb 176 pages
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by John Gray
1984, 1994 pb 218 pages
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Why
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1986 pb 240 pages
Let
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by Harriet Schechter
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1996 pb 354 pages
Life
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Everything Done and Still Have Time to Play
by Mark Forster
When
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by Pema Chodron, pb
147 pages
Your money or your life: transforming
your relationship with money and achieving financial independence,
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The Art of Happiness
by HH Dalai Lama &
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pb 186 pages
Cloud Atlas
by David Mitchell
pb 544 pages
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by Shirley Hazzard
pb 320 pages
The Pilot's Wife
by Anita Shreve,
1998 pb 304
Liar's
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La Cucina
by Lily Prior
Strange fits
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by Anita Shreve
pb 336 pages
Fortune's Rocks
by Anita Shreve
pb 453 pages
Tulip Fever
by Deborah Moggach
pb 259 pages
Disgrace
by J.M.Coetzee
pb 220 pages
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The
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by Bill Bryson
pb 293 pages
The
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by Deanna G. Wolff
pb 160 pages
True stories
The
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by Lucy Boutaleb
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pb 215 pages
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pb 96 pages
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pb 367 pages
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by T.E. Carhart, 242 pages
Grace Notes
by Bernard MacLaverty,
277 pages
An Equal Music
by Vikram Seth
pb 486 pages
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