Book Reviews
Kid Stuff
I’ve been working more often with children again, something I’ve done with great delight since early in my career. It often comes about that I work with children in the course of partnering with the parents: first the parents, then the youngster(s). My youngest one-on-one client ever was five. My record number of children on-site…
Read MoreSeeing What Others Cannot See by Thomas G. West
Seeing What Others Cannot See: The Hidden Advantages of Visual Thinkers and Differently Wired Brains is Thomas G. West‘s third book. I am sooooooooo torn about this work. It is a powerfully reasoned defense of a world-wide, critical movement to recognize the needs and astonishing abilities of people who are visual/spatial/dyslexic/neurodiverse thinkers. Visual/spatial learners may have…
Read MoreLife Skills Advocate’s Real Life Executive Functioning Workbook
Chris Hanson, BS of Life Skills Advocate, partnered with Amy Sippl, MS, BCBA, has produced a thoughtful, far-reaching tool kit, The Real Life Executive Functioning Workbook: A Handbook of Exercises to Help Unique Learners for supporting neurodiverse young people as they attempt to master difficult skills and concepts such as emotion regulation and time management.…
Read MoreAtomic Habits: An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones – James Clear
Atomic Habits: An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones is James Clear‘s compilation of the heroically-earned insights he’s accumulated in a lifetime of learning how to build effective habits after being hit in the face with a baseball bat the last day of his high school sophomore year. His…
Read MoreIndistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life by Nir Eyal
In Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life, Nir Eyal has assembled very easy-to-read, realistic explanations of the external and internal prompts which compel human behavior. Those analyses include tools for his readers to break unproductive habits and build healthy habits. Not everyone is going to agree with his definitions of “unproductive”…
Read MoreStuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things by Randy O. Frost & Gail Steketee
I wish I’d read Stuff by Randy Frost and Gail Steketee a long long time ago. Because it’s the first book I would have always recommended, and it is now the first book I will always recommend, to anyone who thinks s/he/they may have hoarding challenges, or to anyone who has suffered the impact of…
Read MoreThe Organized Mind by Daniel J Levitin
The Organized Mind by Daniel J. Levitin was required reading for my Level II Time Management and Productivity Specialist Certificate from the Institute for Challenging Disorganization. The book is amusing, challenging and ever-so-slightly intimidating. Levitin walks his readers through progressively more challenging elements of our lives: first teaching us how our minds process information, then…
Read MoreADHD 2.0 by Edward Hallowell and John Ratey
ADHD 2.0 is Drs. Hallowell’s and Ratey’s latest collaboratively-written book. It’s the simplest of their books that I’ve read, with a focus on updating and explaining concepts Hallowell and Ratey first introduced in their fundamental Distraction series, and a second focus on providing detailed, easy-to-try tools for managing ADHD symptoms when those symptoms interfere with…
Read MoreJunkyard Planet : Travels in the Billion-Dollar Trash Trade by Adam Minter
Junkyard Planet: Travels in the Billion-Dollar Trash Trade by Adam Minter is amusing, terrifying, inspiring, infuriating and depressing. Not the book itself, which is wonderful: Minter is an accomplished journalist with a unique understanding of his subject matter – junkyards, scrapyards, recycling, reuse, landfills, trash and garbage, secondhand throughout the world – because he grew…
Read MoreSecondhand: Travels in the New Global Garage Sale by Adam Minter
I’m recycling some of my review of Minter’s first book: Junkyard Planet: Travels in the Billion-Dollar Trash Trade to write this review ♥. Secondhand: Travels in the New Global Garage Sale by Adam Minter is amusing, terrifying, inspiring, infuriating and depressing. Not the book itself, which is wonderful: Minter is an accomplished journalist with a…
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