![]() Fortress of Solitude and Motherless Brooklyn.If you haven’t read this book yet, please please do! ![]() You won’t believe this woman’s childhood - at the same time unbelievable, sad, funny, inspiring, unconventional, brave. Such great stories, and overall it’s a moving and superbly written book. I don’t know why I never read this before - maybe it sounded too depressing or something, but boy was I wrong! This was an amazing memoir, and usually I don’t like memoirs at all. Not really a novel, and not particularly new, it’s still a really gripping tale. I can’t believe I hadn’t read this or even heard of it until recently. I’d read Steve Martin’s Shopgirl and enjoyed both the book and the movie, but The Pleasure of My Company is even better. I don’t think of Steve Martin as a writer, but in this tiny little book, he’s created a wonderful, wonderful read. The Pleasure of My Company: A Novella by Steve Martin.I could give a long list of a couple hundred excellent novels I’d recommend, but I’m going to limit myself to a handful that I read or re-read this year, and absolutely loved. The novel has an unquestionably magical power to transport the reader into new worlds, and that is both necessary and unmatched in today’s world of technology. You can’t go wrong by giving a novel as a gift. Essential Motivation Handbook, a joint ebook with Eric Hamm, designed to be a motivation resource when you need it most.ģ.The Zen Habits Handbook for Life, basically the core articles of Zen Habits, showing you how to live a simpler, happier, motivated life.The Simple Guide to a Minimalist Life, my latest, a series of articles on minimalism in many facets of your daily life.Zen To Done, the best-selling productivity ebook, a book that simplifies productivity.Ebooks are great because they aren’t printed on dead trees, and if you buy one of mine, you can buy them once and give copies to many. And who isn’t, these days? The Power of Less will help your loved one to take control of a life that’s become too much, to simplify information streams and to-do lists, to form good habits in the face of previous failures, to declutter a home and workspace filled with junk.īuy it at Barnes & Noble, Amazon, Borders, or an independent bookseller near you.Ģ. I would be remiss not to mention my print book, The Power of Less, partly because it helps me to pay the bills around here, but also because I think it’s a good gift for anyone who is looking for some simplicity in their life. ![]() Enjoy, in the spirit of reading and knowledge and love.ġ. That said, here’s a list of stuff you can spend your money on, many of them published by corporations. Remember, giving doesn’t have to cost a ton of money, and you don’t need to fall for the corporate propaganda. ![]() I cheerfully call bullshit on that great tradition. I’m listing some of my recommendations below, but this is not an endorsement to go consumerist crazy and get into deep debt. Or give ebooks, which I personally love, and they’re usually cheaper and use far less resources than print books. This is exclusively on books, because, hey, books are one of the best gifts you can give, and you can even find them used sometimes if you’re trying to be frugal and green. So here’s my third attempt at a post on gifts. But the post took too much research and I got lazy. Then I revised the post to show ways to avoid consumerism - to give no gifts, or to give experiences instead of crap that will clutter people’s lives, to give consumables and hand-made things. I intended to do a “Zen Habits Gift Guide”, full of frugal and green gifts that I like, typical of the gift guides you see everywhere at this time of year.
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