Cool. Hoping to get out there next year. Will try reach Bosnia as well
General Discussion: what are you reading?
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15 Sep 2012 13:56
23 Sep 2012 16:42
i can get a lot of the popular ones for the kindle if you mention anything
2 entrepreneur style books i really recommend.. 4 hour work week and millionaire fastlane
Ah just seen this mate.
Don't have a kindle but I'll track down the ones mentioned.
24 Sep 2012 09:07
22 Apr 2013 12:45
mostar is a great little place to spend a few days, went from dubrovnik by bus and then a bus from mostar to split (early morning buses)
stayed here
http://www.muslibegovichouse.com
stayed here
http://www.muslibegovichouse.com
Anyone know of any decent books on small businesses/design/branding?
i can get a lot of the popular ones for the kindle if you mention anything
2 entrepreneur style books i really recommend.. 4 hour work week and millionaire fastlane
Ah just seen this mate.
Don't have a kindle but I'll track down the ones mentioned.
just read Turning Pro by Steven Pressfield..
it's about making the change from amateur to professional if you're an entrepreneur or create something. short read finished it in a few hours
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Turning-Pro-ebook/dp/B0087TUM54
and half way through Mark Cuban - The Sport of Business
pretty good.. about him going from sofa to computer company to owning a basketball team. quite inspirational. full of strong, but a bit boring, advice
http://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Win-Sport-Business-ebook/dp/B006AX6ONI
it's about making the change from amateur to professional if you're an entrepreneur or create something. short read finished it in a few hours
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Turning-Pro-ebook/dp/B0087TUM54
and half way through Mark Cuban - The Sport of Business
pretty good.. about him going from sofa to computer company to owning a basketball team. quite inspirational. full of strong, but a bit boring, advice
http://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Win-Sport-Business-ebook/dp/B006AX6ONI
finished the new Granta Best Young British Novelists anthology over the weekend
very hit and miss imo
I read a review that called it a 'relentlessly globalised' collection and noted that "many of 2013's 'best British novelists' are immigrants, writing about Britain from a recent arrival's perspective, or not writing about Britain at all"
it definitely felt like the the majority of stories were set abroad (army camps in Somalia, building sites in Dubai, a Chinese refugee centre in Lausanne, a sheep station in the Australian outback and so on) and/or narrated from the perspective of migrant workers/some other displaced people
it would have been nice for at least some of the writers to engage more with modern-day Britian imo
I'd read eight of those on the list previously (Zadie Smith, Adam Thirlwell, Adam Foulds, Ned Beauman, David Szalay—who has the best piece in this collection, Sarah hall, Helen Oyeyemi and Ross Raisin). The only new name I'll be seeking out from the other twelve collected here is Sunjeev Sahota.
Some of the inclusion are just baffling (Naomi Alderman, Jenni Fagan. Xiaolu Guo), especially given some of the more notable omissions: Jon McGregor, Joe Dunthorne, Nick Laird.
very hit and miss imo
I read a review that called it a 'relentlessly globalised' collection and noted that "many of 2013's 'best British novelists' are immigrants, writing about Britain from a recent arrival's perspective, or not writing about Britain at all"
it definitely felt like the the majority of stories were set abroad (army camps in Somalia, building sites in Dubai, a Chinese refugee centre in Lausanne, a sheep station in the Australian outback and so on) and/or narrated from the perspective of migrant workers/some other displaced people
it would have been nice for at least some of the writers to engage more with modern-day Britian imo
I'd read eight of those on the list previously (Zadie Smith, Adam Thirlwell, Adam Foulds, Ned Beauman, David Szalay—who has the best piece in this collection, Sarah hall, Helen Oyeyemi and Ross Raisin). The only new name I'll be seeking out from the other twelve collected here is Sunjeev Sahota.
Some of the inclusion are just baffling (Naomi Alderman, Jenni Fagan. Xiaolu Guo), especially given some of the more notable omissions: Jon McGregor, Joe Dunthorne, Nick Laird.
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