By Jon Krakauer on Chris McCandless (1968-92), an Emory University graduate who ventured into the wild and died in Stampede Trail, Alaska. He wrote for school’s…
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By Jon Krakauer on Chris McCandless (1968-92), an Emory University graduate who ventured into the wild and died in Stampede Trail, Alaska. He wrote for school’s…
Krakauer is an American writer and mountain climber. I first noticed him was reading his book Into Thin Air, on the disastrous 1996 Mount Everest…
Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town, is one of Jon Krakauer‘s books, published in 2015, with 1,633 ratings on Amazon at this…
Waking up to flowers and sweet wishes from my family, and reading friends’ postings about their Mother’s Day experiences (treatments and gifts …) but as…
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol S. Dweck published in 2007 (2,089 rating on Amazon at this writing), and The Talent Code: Greatness Isn’t Born. It’s…
Today’s bookclub is on Becoming, former First Lady Michelle Obama‘s memoir published in 2018, which, at this moment, has generated 109,127 ratings on Amazon – a…
Own It: The Power of Women at Work, by Sallie Krawcheck. A road map for women to navigate at work and at home as well.…
Park Avenue Summer by Reneé Rosen (2019) The Vanity Fair Diaries 1983-92, by Tina Brown (2018) A Woman Makes A Plan, by Maye Musk (2020)…
The Matriarch: Barbara Bush and the Making of an American Dynasty by Susan Page was published in 2019. I enjoyed it very much, learnt a…
Indian Summers was a two-season, 20-episode tv series made in UK, about a few Brits (government official and traders) spending their summers at Simla. It…