The Book Meme - Starbucker Edition

November 12th, 2007 • Click to view Related Articles
Filed Under: Fellow Half-Fullers • Half-Full Book Review • Link Love

My buddy Phil over at Make it Great! tagged me for the “book meme” (he was tagged by Matthew ,who had been tagged by Karen, who was tagged by Lisa, who was tagged by Liz, who was tagged by Flowerpot, and that’s as far as I could go - great blogs everyone!).

Here goes:

Total Number of Books Owned: I’d say around 50; I really didn’t come around to a lot of book reading until the past few years

Last Book Read: “The Three Signs of a Miserable Job” by Patrick Lencioni. Pretty good- I’m actually going to buy a bunch of these for my teammates.

Last Book Bought: “This is Your Brain on Music” by Daniel Levitin. If you like music at all, buy this book. A wonderful read - in a previous post I wryly noted some of the cool facts that were revealed in it.

Five Meaningful Books:

  1. “Einstein“, by Walter Isaacson. I now look at the Universe in a totally different (and magical) way
  2. “Good to Great“, by Jim Collins. Provides an essential understanding of what it takes to be a long-term business success.
  3. “Citizen Soldiers” by Stephen Ambrose. I could have picked three books by Ambrose, but this one left the most lasting mark on me about the courage and bravery of these men during WWII.
  4. “Pour Your Heart Into It” by Howard Schultz. As I said in my review, “The book serves as an excellent case study in “leadership with heart”. Schultz is an undying “inclusive optimist”.”
  5. “1776” by David McCullough. A real and gripping profile in courage (and great leadership).

I tag:

Rick
Mary
Joe
Karen
Dave

And a 11/16 special tag: Derrick

There Are 9 Responses So Far. »

  1. Comment by Anonymous on 13 November 2007:

    I found this site which gives book reviews on video A very fresh and new way to BOOK REVIEWS

  2. Comment by Karen on 13 November 2007:

    I have seen recommendations for “Good to Great” so many times. I guess I’ll need to pick that up on the next trip to the library!

  3. Comment by liz fenwick on 13 November 2007:

    Interesting book list :-)

  4. Comment by Rick Cockrum on 14 November 2007:

    Hi Terry,

    Thank you for tagging me for this meme. I put up my post in Can You Spell Bibliophile?

    Just so you know, it led to a chore for me. My wife saw me counting books. It reminded her she wanted a bookcase moved out of the living room. I got to do the moving last night. :)

  5. Comment by Terry Starbucker on 15 November 2007:

    Hi Karen, Liz and Rick - thanks for stopping by!

    Karen, yes indeed, buy that book. It really “clicked” with me.

    Liz, you certainly picked the right word to describe my book list!

    Rick, my humble apologies for creating housework for you because of this meme. :-)
    Thanks for responding to the tag.

    All the best to you all!

  6. Comment by derrick on 15 November 2007:

    I love Book memes! Can someone tag me???

    Derrick and Michael

  7. Comment by Terry Starbucker on 16 November 2007:

    You got it Derrick! Look forward to your lists. Hope all is well with the both of you, and all the best.

  8. Comment by Phil Gerbyshak on 25 November 2007:

    Very well done Terry. Thanks for playing along!

    I’m looking forward to completing the new Lencioni book too. I’m about 45 minutes in on audio. So far, so good.

  9. Comment by Terry Starbucker on 25 November 2007:

    Hi Phil! I think you’ll like the Lencioni book - the three signs make a heck of a lot of sense. Talk to you soon!

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