YOU ARE A BADASS AT MAKING MONEY

You Are A Badass at Making Money by Jen Sincero   269 pages


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Reviewed by Rae C.

This is straight up motivation for pursuing your dream.  It's 269 pages of hilarious, well-written, and concise cheer-leading.

I think women that want to start their own businesses (or write or paint, etc) will love this book, whether they are new to manifestation and prosperity thought, or solidly schooled.  This book is fun to read!  And Sincero has lots of solid advice, outlines, and stories and testimonials from clients.

I enjoyed it so much I am going to read her other two books!

Tools of Titans

Tools of Titans: the tactics, routines, and habits of billionaires, icons, and world-class performers by Timothy Ferriss, 673 pages

Timothy Ferris is probably best known as the author of The 4-Hour Work Week. He has a podcast that includes interviews with entrepreneurs and other successful people. Some of the interviewees include Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jamie Foxx, Whitney Cummings, Rainn Wilson, Tony Robbins, Gabby Reece, Laird Hamilton, and Scott Adams. Most of the book is pulled from his interviews on the podcast. Some interviewees have more pages dedicated to them than others. It is broken down into three sections: Health, Wealthy and Wise.

This book is not a how to manual or in-depth description of how to be successful. As the subtitle indicates there are tactics, routines and habits. Some of the advice is contradictory or specific to certain professions like entertainment. Whether it is just true of his sample or a larger truth, he notes that 80% of the people he interviewed either meditate or practice mindfulness.

I found it to be a good read. There were many tidbits that provided me food for thought, things to try or ideas to explore further. Depending on the interest of the reader he or she may want to read just one or two sections or information from specific people.

Trump and Me

Trump and Me by Mark Singer, 108 pages

Donald Trump has been good to Mark Singer.  Certainly, he called the journalist's 1997 New Yorker profile "a new low".  True, he responded to the piece's reprint in a 2005 collection with the personal message, "Mark, you are a total loser!  And your book (and writings) sucks!", adding the inimitable Trumpian flourish "PS And I hear it is selling badly."  But the Donald's presidential campaign has now allowed Singer to triple-dip on the time that the two spent together as a result of editor Tina Brown's expert matchmaking.

To describe his subject, Singer likes a quote from an anonymous security analyst so well he uses it twice: "Deep down, he wants to be Madonna."  Yet Trump's own comments are just as revelatory: "... the show is 'Trump' and it is sold-out performances everywhere."  "It's always good to do things nice and complicated so that nobody can figure it out."  "Part of the beauty of me is that I am very rich."  Singer sees these, no doubt correctly, as expressions "of a single theme: Trump.  Me.  Look."

We Were Liars

We Were Liars by E. Lockhart                      225 pages

This was a wonderful, beautiful, sad, magical book.  Four teenagers, Cadence, Johnny, Mirren, and Gat, three of whom are privileged Sinclairs, and one who is not, have spent every summer together on their family’s island since they were eight years old.  They have the best summers together.  During the school year they don’t keep in touch well, but when summer begins they pick up right where they left off the previous summer.  The summer they are fifteen, after their grandmother, Tipper Sinclair, has died, something happens.  Cadence has some sort of accident and can’t remember most of the summer.  Her mother doesn’t allow her to come to the island the next summer.  Instead, Cadence goes to visit her father in Europe for the entire summer.  The summer after she turned seventeen, her mother wants her to go to her father again, but Cadence insists on returning to the island.  It is there that Cadence finally begins to regain some of her lost memories, and to understand why she may have chosen to block those memories for so long.  This is a coming-of-age story that a lot of teens would like.