Book title: Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home
Author: Rupert Sheldrake
Category: Non-fiction, animals
Number of pages: 352
What it's about: The alleged telepathic connection between animals and their humans.
What I liked best: Rupert Sheldrake provides enough examples of anecdotal as well as controlled and monitored evidence to convince the reader that there really is a telepathic connection between humans and their pets.
What I think: I've been a dog person my entire life, so I really appreciated this book. I've always believed that the animal-human bond goes deeper than companionship and mutual benefit. If you spend enough time around animals, you can get an uncanny feeling that they know more than is immediately obvious. This book examines and analyzes animal response to humans in a way that suggests there is more to patterns of anticipatory behaviour than just coincidence, routine, or heightened sensory ability (i.e. keen hearing).
After reading Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home, I couldn't help but notice how our Shepherd Husky cross always moves to the top of the front stairs about thirty minutes or so before my husband gets home...
My rating: 4 stars
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1.25.2010
Outliers - Malcolm Gladwell
Book title: Outliers
Author: Malcolm Gladwell
Category: Non-fiction, Self Help
Number of pages: 309
What it's about: The author examines the stories of some of the most successful people in history and reveals some surprising insight behind their success.
What I liked best: The fact that Malcom Gladwell brings a realistic perspective to success made this book interesting: all of the "outliers" featured didn't succeed on their own - they had help, and they also didn't succeed overnight - they worked hard.
What I think: This is a good book to read in the early years of one's adult life, because one of the key common threads in all of the success stories featured is amount of time put towards one's goals (as in, there is no such thing as an overnight success). There seems to be an average time frame of about ten years of effort before big rewards begin to surface.
My rating: 4 stars
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Author: Malcolm Gladwell
Category: Non-fiction, Self Help
Number of pages: 309
What it's about: The author examines the stories of some of the most successful people in history and reveals some surprising insight behind their success.
What I liked best: The fact that Malcom Gladwell brings a realistic perspective to success made this book interesting: all of the "outliers" featured didn't succeed on their own - they had help, and they also didn't succeed overnight - they worked hard.
What I think: This is a good book to read in the early years of one's adult life, because one of the key common threads in all of the success stories featured is amount of time put towards one's goals (as in, there is no such thing as an overnight success). There seems to be an average time frame of about ten years of effort before big rewards begin to surface.
My rating: 4 stars
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