Elisabeth Gilbert: Stern Men
Before I set off for Croatia and then Drummond Island, I’d like to leave you with another reading tip. “Stern Men” is a first novel by Elisabeth Gilbert. Her heroine is an independent, smart and plucky 19 year-old girl called Ruth who fritters away the summer on a remote island populated by oddball lobstermen who are feuding with the lobstermen on a second island. Ruth is back after four years of boarding school, and in fact the island of her childhood is too small for her. She needs a job, and a lover would be nice, too.
Khaled Hosseini: A Thousand Splendid Suns
When I first opened this book and started reading in the middle, there was so much brutality that I thought, no, there is no way I’m going to read this. But then I started properly at the beginning, and I fell in love with it from page to page.
Blue Ocean
“Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant”
Margaret Atwood: Moral Disorder
Since it’s summertime, I thought maybe you’re looking for something to read. I’m going to read you a selection from a book that I’ve been reading and thought might help you make a choice on your summer reading list.
Zoning in
while it does feel as if I’ve read the whole novel, it’s been a messy, haphazard process
