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How to Murder your Life Book Review

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How to murder your life Book Review If ever there was a book I couldn’t put down, How to Murder your Life takes the cake. I heard about this book when doing some research online, in search of memoirs with grit and glamour. While writing my own memoir, I was in search of writers with wit and Cat Marnell soon came to the top of that list. Cat’s recount of her life as a “blonde media dahling with an out of control drug habit” is the kind of book you won’t be able to stop reading. At times shocking and at times heartbreaking, this story is the kind of real and raw answer to The Devil Wears Prada . It is a more fascinating tale of how a young Cat moves to New York in an effort to make a life for herself, which she does, and then some! Cat works her way up in the publishing world, back in the day of print magazines in their prime. She reluctantly makes the move toward online, accepting a position at (now defunct) xoJane as Beauty Editor. All of...

Outliers Book Review

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Outliers Book Review by Malcolm Gladwell Buy the book here Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell Subjects: Entrepreneurship; Self-Improvement Welcome back to the first book club feature of 2020. We’ll begin our book club with an absolute banger: Outliers Book Review by Malcolm Gladwell . This book is a great opener for a few reasons but namely because it dissects common misperceptions around success and what makes a person successful. If you asked me what makes a person successful before reading this book, I might have responded “talent, hard work and perseverance”. All of these qualities indeed make a person successful, but my theory misses one major feature: circumstance. Timing plays a huge role in one’s success, as does their geographic location, cultural norms, and who they are outside of their talents. “Who we are cannot be separated from where we’re from” – Malcolm Gladwell Summary Notes: If you put...