My Book Party

This is one of the magazines that I used to subscribe.  I cancelled my subscription because I have no space for magazines that I don't really read.  This magazine always has  a very attractive cover photo which is what enticed me into subscribing. Among the stacks of the old issues, I had only recently read one article so far in the "Life Lessons" section.  It was simply a waste of my 10 minutes.  I read it because I felt curious while I was unboxing my moving box full of Real Simple Magazines.  I hear that the magazine pays $2.00 for every word.  But is "Life Lessons" a section that pays writers for the essay or it's a vanity section that lets writers  provide free essays in exchange for a by-line? Does anyone know?  I'm asking because I feel that I can write more interesting life lesson than the one that I just read. If you are interested in reading the essay that bored me, please click here . Why did the essay bore me?  I...

For years, I had let this book buried in one of my moving boxes. Tonight, I finally have a chance to read the first few pages, only to discover that this book isn't a fictional thriller that I thought it was when I bought it.  Yes, I remember buying this book from the bookstore while waiting to meet my date there.... This book is actually a non-fiction about a real fraud case that inflicted billions of dollars of losses on a lot of pension funds, (government's included), charities, individual investors, etc. etc. A few pages in, I had  read that for 9 years, the author had been working with a team to bring the Madoff investment ponzi scheme to the attention of the SEC's attention (a government's wall-street) but failed... So, the old adage that my grandparents always chanted: "Don't depend on the government!" is true. I have a feeling that this book is going to be very interesting and a better page-turner than the so-called literature fiction ...

I enjoyed reading this single issue magazine that is dedicated to container gardening.  I love that this magazine has no ads.  I never took an interest in gardening because I grew up in tiny condo in the city.  I have no idea why I bought this magazine.  I think I bought this gardening magazine while waiting at the grocery store's checkout line.  It was just one of those impulsive purchases.  The beautiful photos inside the magazine are quite inspiring and they make me want to  have some pots of flowers in my apartment.  But after flipping through the beautiful magazine, I still hadn't had the motivation to actually plant anything.  I guess it's because I didn't bother to read the text?  I didn't read the text because I couldn't focus on reading text on magazines. The photos are always too distracting.  Like other magazines I read, I put it away and forgot about it until recently when I want more space for my bookshelf.  A...

I don't live in a house. I never lived in a house.  I have no idea why I even bought gardening books when I don't have a yard, particularly when I bought the same book twice.  Now I end up having 2 of the exact same big gardening book.   So I'm now selling one of them at a deep discount , to make space in my little apartment.  It's brand new and never read. I just got it out of one of my moving boxes that I finally decided to open after years of moving into my current place.  The above photo is from pg. 314 of the book.  What a lovely rose field.  If you have read this book, please feel free to leave a comment in the comment area below.  If you'd like to buy this book from me, please click here to shop at my Bookshelf Clearance Page .

I saw this book all the time when I shopped at grocery stores and drug stores.  I had to fight to resist the temptation of the beautiful book cover to refrain from buying another book that my bookshelf currently has no space to keep .  As soon as I thought I forgot about this book, I read about it on one of my magazines .  This book really has powerful marketing to make itself visible to me, tempting me... If you have read this book, please feel free to share your opinion about it in the following comment area.

I always hear people say, "Just when you think you know someone, you actually don't."  In my case, I I realize that while I think I know everything about myself, I actually don't.  Just look at this book that I just fished out from my moving box from years ago!  I don't remember why I bought this book. I didn't major Marketing in college, and I'm not working in the marketing field. I don't even remember where I bought this book. It's in brand new condition, a hardcover.  So obviously,  I had never read it, but I own it.   Should I list this for sale on my Bookshelf Clearance page or should I hang onto it for a while? After reading a few pages of this book, all I know about Google is it hires tens of thousands of its employees largely using one baseline criteria, which is a college GPA of  3.0 or higher.  I'm surprised that being an innovative tech company, Google is having such an old school paradigm on hiring talents.. As a very minor...