A bookworm journalist blogs on literature and life
One Sentence Summary: Unable to afford school, 14-year-old Malawian William Kamkwamba pursued his education at his village library where his life was changed by a book called Using Energy.
One Sentence Review: William’s memoir was the perfect combination for me – compelling story, strong narrative voice, and connections to real life.
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Monday Tally is a weekly link round-up of some of my favorite posts discovered over the week. If you have suggestions for Monday Tally, please e-mail sophisticated [dot] dorkiness [at] gmail [dot] com. Enjoy!
Top Picks
If you only have a minute, here are my top picks for this week.
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Monday Tally is a weekly link round-up of some of my favorite posts discovered over the week. If you have suggestions for Monday Tally, please e-mail sophisticated [dot] dorkiness [at] gmail [dot] com. Enjoy!
Top Picks
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A few months ago I read and reviewed Sheena Iyengar’s recent book The Art of Choosing. It’s a great book, but if you don’t have the time to read it, you should at least take time to watch this 25 minute TED Talk, where Iyengar covers many of the points in the book.
The talk focuses mostly on the assumptions that we all have about choices and how those assumptions impact what we think.
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Monday Tally is a weekly link round-up of some of my favorite posts discovered over the week. If you have suggestions for Monday Tally, please e-mail sophisticated [dot] dorkiness [at] gmail [dot] com. Enjoy!
This week making vacations smarter, Diana Wynne Jones Week, and how gamers and mentors are building a better world.
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Monday Tally is a weekly link round-up of some of my favorite posts discovered over the week. If you have suggestions for Monday Tally, please e-mail sophisticated [dot] dorkiness [at] gmail [dot] com. Enjoy!
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One Sentence Summary: We identify ourselves by our choices, but how well do we know the process we use when choosing or what outside influences can impact what we think we want?
One Sentence Review: Iyengar’s book is full of relevant examples and quirky humor exploring the personal impacts of choice, which makes it both informative and engaging.
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Two Sentence Summary: Henrietta Lacks, a poor black woman, went to John Hopkins for treatment for cervical cancer. Doctors took some of her cancer cells without her knowledge, and those cells grew into the first line of immortal human cells that are still used in medical research today
One Sentence Review: Author Rebecca Skloot deftly weaves three stories together into a book that explores the development of medical ethics and evolution of how individuals and the medical establishment think about the human body and who has control of it.
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One Sentence Summary: Near the end of WWII, 36 young men volunteered to starve themselves as part of an experiment to understand the basics of human nutrition needs.
One Sentence Review: The book is at it’s strongest when focusing on the experiment and the experiences of the subjects, but loses some momentum when it tries to step out and address too many large issues.
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