1. The World Is Flat by Thomas L. Friedman
2. Classic Rachael Ray 30 Minute Meals by Rachael Ray (really? i mean food is important, but really?)
3. Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin (love this book!)
4. Tiffany’s Table Manners for Teenagers by Walter Hoving
5. Getting From College to Career by Lindsay Pollack
6. How To Be A Hepburn in a Hilton World: The Art of Living with Style, Class, and Grace by Jordan Christy (want to read)
7. Women & Money: Owning the Power to Control Your Destiny by Suze Orman (meh, i can skip this one)
8. Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, A Young Man, and Life’s Greatest Lesson by Mitch Albom (great book, should read it again!)
9. Oh! The Places You’ll Go by Dr. Seuss
and they asked for reader comments to get #10.
So my #10 would be a Malcolm Gladwell book, either Blink or the Tipping Point or What the Dog Saw, all good quality books.
My list of books to read keeps getting longer and longer, and the stack beside my bed keeps getting larger and larger. And it probably doesn't help that I read 3-4 books at the same time.
But thinking about Three Cups of Tea made me think about how many philanthropies there are in the world that I want to support (and some which I do suppport) such as 1. Doctors Without Borders, 2. Partners in Health, 3. American Cancer Society, 4. St. Jude, 5. Theta Foundation, 6. JMU, 7. ODK, 8. KDP, 9. the local NPR station, 10. JMU ATEP, 11. Greg Mortensen's foundation, 12. Congo Leadership Initiative (run by my brother's little) and there are more! Are there really a hundred foundations that all support similar things? Would problems actually get solved if the multitude of foundations worked together better? Or would that make things worse?
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