Back after a LONG break :)

So it seems that I decided to take the summer off of this little blogging idea :) One might think that I took the summer off from my ambitious reading goal as well, but I can assure you that is not the case!

I took a lovely 3 week vacation to the Cook Islands, Australia, and New Zealand, and that gave me some much needed reading time. Made it through Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose by Tony Hsieh, Business Stripped Bare by Richard Branson, and Say You're One of Them by Uwem Akpan in my three short weeksglobe trotting. Hard to not be inspired with a surrounding like this:I aso read two books by Tom Peters over the summer. One of his newest - The Little Big Things - and a classic (his first book I think) - In Search of Excellence. I stumbled across Excellence in a used book store and was so glad I picked it up. Some of the case studies are a bit outdated now (it was first published before I was BORN!), but the content is tried and true and amazing how relevant is remains almost 30 years after it first hit the shelves.
The only other two that made up my summer reading were Blink by Malcolm Gladwell and Grande Expectations by Karen Blumenthal. Gladwell is (in my opinion) one of the great authors of this century, so I always love getting my hands on anything he writes. Then what could be more inspirin than reading about how Howard Schultz took starbucks from a dream and a tiny cofefe house into a global powerhouse?

The goal is to get "back on the horse" and start blogging again as I make my way towards my 2010 goal of 50 books. My schedule seems to get the best of me far too often, so I guess we'll see how it goes...

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