The band Blink 182 does not get mentioned in Blink

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I just finished Malcolm Gladwell’s Blink. I’ve read The Tipping Point, which was great, and I was at the Annette Street Library (my new home branch) and read the first page and got sucked in. That’s Gladwell’s way, he gets you in with stories of mysterious phenomenon and you have to keep reading to get the explanation, which adds to his central idea. It also makes you think the book has changed the way you look at life – but does it?

The idea of this one is that your unconscious mind makes a lot more decisions, and more quickly, than we might think. This jives with my personal strategy lately to try and not fight my instincts, and to do what I want to do. Not in the sense of playing video games and eating ice cream all the time, but to actually work towards the goals I want to accomplish, instead of doing what I think I should be doing.

Anyway, Blink is a super fast read and I’ll probably get Outliers from the library, and learn to be extremely successful. Next we have 3 candidates for book five:

1,2 = North = Topdog/Underdog by Suzan-Lori Parks, Pulitzer Prize for Drama 2002

3,4 = East = The In-Between World of Vikram Lall by M.G. Vassanji, Giller Prize 2003

5,6 = South = I Am My Own Wife by Doug Wright, Pulitzer Prize for Drama 2004

I rolled a 4 (again!), and so it’s into the world of Canadian Fiction with M.G. Vassanji