My Book Party

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...

I read about this book from one of the magazines that I just read , it looks like a thrilling book to read for the summer, if only I don't have too many books to read already. If you are reading this book now, please feel free to post your opinion in the comment area below and share your reading joy with me.

I learnt about the book from the People Magazine I just read.  I love chalk art, not that I can do it.  I just find the book cover lovely.  If you are reading this book, please feel free to share your opinion with me in the following comment area.

This is one of my impulse purchases at the airport.  I just can't resist any magazine that has a mouth watering food photo as a cover.  The following article is the only thing I had read so far though.  I'm not a newspaper reader or subscriber, but somehow I find it fascinating to read about the problems & troubles within the L.A. Times.   Link to article: What's the Matter with the L.A. Times   I feel such a strong resonance when I read the comment of a staffer at L.A. Times regarding the brain drain, "You don't quit the Los Angeles Times to go to Kaiser Health News or Reuters. These people are not quitting the Times. They're quitting to leave their bosses."

My moving box that I cast away to the corner of my living room few years ago is like a time capsule that is telling the present me what type of person I used to be.  This book that I recently fished out from that box told me that my current anxiety has been an old problem.  But when I thought my anxiety needed help to be dealt with back then, I didn't know fast forwarding few years into the future, I'm actually more anxious now. At least I learn that anxiety doesn't get better with age.  It actually gets worse. I didn't read this book back then when I bought it brand new. May be if I did, I would've been in a better place by now.  Have you read this book? Does it help you?  Please feel free to share with me your opinion in the comment area below.