This was the first week of the school holidays here in Northern Ireland, which is always an enjoyable if distracting time. I still catch summer vacation fever even if I’m many decades out of school. The weather here as been warm and dry, adding to the light summery feel. It’s been hard to think of serious things.
Especially because — the great COVID God willing — I will be heading off next week on an epic road trip to Italy. Just me, my 12 year old son and my two extremely emotionally needy dogs who do not understand or accept the idea of personal space. For 3,500km.
I have not been off this island in 18 months. And being in possession of a gypsy soul, I have found this difficult. So we are off. Boats, car trains and a lot of open road.
So my newsletter schedule will be changing for the rest of July and possibly August. I will send out updates from the road, should any of you care to follow our trajectory. And then when I get settled into a routine, once I reach Italy I will start writing again.
I’m bringing the following books with me to read:
Gloria Steinem’s My Life on the Road:
I have never read anything by liberal America’s favourite feminist/CIA asset Gloria Steinem, and since I would very much like to criticise her I felt compelled to read something she actually wrote. Who knows, maybe she’ll win me over!
Anthony Sutton’s The Wall Street Trilogy:
An old friend turned me on to this book, and I read part of the trilogy about progressive hero FDR’s Wall Street cronies. It was so compelling I went and bought the whole trilogy, which describes “the role of the American corporate socialists, otherwise known as the Wall Street financial elite…in the 1917 Lenin-Trotsky Revolution in Russia, the 1933 election of Franklin D. Roosevelt in the United States, and the 1933 seizure of power by Adolf Hitler in Germany. Each of these events introduced some variant of socialism into a major country, i.e. Bolshevik socialism in Russia, New Deal socialism in the United States, and National socialism in Germany.” Yikes. I’m scared already.
Chris Voss’s Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if your life depended on it
Former FBI hostage negotiator Chris Voss has some really interesting things to say about emotional intelligence, how to listen to an adversary, and ultimately how to get what you want out of a negotiation. Since I spent the last week interviewing/talking to people,(more on this to come) I thought I could really get something out of this book.
I am also thinking of doing something I rarely do — read a novel. Any good beach read suggestions, friends? Please drop in the comments below. ⬇️⬇️⬇️
I hope you all are doing well this summer of uncertainty. As always, I greatly appreciate your presence on my email list. Be well!
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We're all going on a summer holiday - what novel should I read?
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Happy Friday! 🥳
This was the first week of the school holidays here in Northern Ireland, which is always an enjoyable if distracting time. I still catch summer vacation fever even if I’m many decades out of school. The weather here as been warm and dry, adding to the light summery feel. It’s been hard to think of serious things.
Especially because — the great COVID God willing — I will be heading off next week on an epic road trip to Italy. Just me, my 12 year old son and my two extremely emotionally needy dogs who do not understand or accept the idea of personal space. For 3,500km.
I have not been off this island in 18 months. And being in possession of a gypsy soul, I have found this difficult. So we are off. Boats, car trains and a lot of open road.
So my newsletter schedule will be changing for the rest of July and possibly August. I will send out updates from the road, should any of you care to follow our trajectory. And then when I get settled into a routine, once I reach Italy I will start writing again.
I’m bringing the following books with me to read:
Gloria Steinem’s My Life on the Road:
I have never read anything by liberal America’s favourite feminist/CIA asset Gloria Steinem, and since I would very much like to criticise her I felt compelled to read something she actually wrote. Who knows, maybe she’ll win me over!
Anthony Sutton’s The Wall Street Trilogy:
An old friend turned me on to this book, and I read part of the trilogy about progressive hero FDR’s Wall Street cronies. It was so compelling I went and bought the whole trilogy, which describes “the role of the American corporate socialists, otherwise known as the Wall Street financial elite…in the 1917 Lenin-Trotsky Revolution in Russia, the 1933 election of Franklin D. Roosevelt in the United States, and the 1933 seizure of power by Adolf Hitler in Germany. Each of these events introduced some variant of socialism into a major country, i.e. Bolshevik socialism in Russia, New Deal socialism in the United States, and National socialism in Germany.” Yikes. I’m scared already.
Chris Voss’s Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if your life depended on it
Former FBI hostage negotiator Chris Voss has some really interesting things to say about emotional intelligence, how to listen to an adversary, and ultimately how to get what you want out of a negotiation. Since I spent the last week interviewing/talking to people,(more on this to come) I thought I could really get something out of this book.
I am also thinking of doing something I rarely do — read a novel. Any good beach read suggestions, friends? Please drop in the comments below. ⬇️⬇️⬇️
I hope you all are doing well this summer of uncertainty. As always, I greatly appreciate your presence on my email list. Be well!
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