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LOOKING FOR AUTHORS!! : Next Wednesday’s Book Review

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I’m going to start writing weekly book reviews next Wednesday.

If you are an author and would like to submit a book, please email: arvell at me.com.

I read 30-50 books a year. Normally the audio version via Audible.com, but I also peep a few Kindles every now and then. Even more rare, I’ll purchase a brick and mortar hardcover book. 🙂

I love to learn but even more I love to teach or share what is inspiring or impactful to me. My goal will be to just give a summary of book as well as the most impactful points or takeaways. 

To me a great book is one that gives simple ideas that can remain permanently apart of your beliefs or habits.

Here’s a tentative list of my first 8 books:

1. I Will Teach You To Be Rich
2. Necessary Endings
3. Networking with the Affluent
4. Choose Yourself
5. Beautiful Ruins Love Does
6. The Icarus Deception
7. Hanson’s Marathon Method God in Business
8. Divergent

Yes, the scope spans multiple genres. Surprisingly I don’t have any Christian books… Hmm I wonder why… (thus if you have a Christian book to recommend, that you LOVE, preferably within 2 years old, please let me know!!) I did find two Christian books to review. #’s 5 & 7. 🙂

My goal is not to be long winded, but to be very specific regarding what I go from it. For example, in James Altucher’s Choose Yourself, he gives a lot of principles, but only idea… really just a phrase that I will likely remember and use for the rest of my life!!

But in Thomas Stanley’s Network with the Affluent (author of the Millionaire Next Door), this was the first time I ever bought multiple copies of a book and gave it away to people who I thought would benefit from it!!

There are other books like The Pastor by Eugene Peterson and The Ragamuffin Gospel that I haven’t bought for others, but I plan to re-read them every year for at least the next 10 years. 

So that’s that.

I’m going to first try this for maybe 20 consecutive weeks, and then take a break and determine when and if I’ll do it again. I’m sure I’ll learn lot from teaching/sharing.

I hope you’ll learn from it as well.  

Please contact any authors you know, or comment below with your own highly prized books. 

Thanks!

Arvell —  Aspiring, Perspiring, Inspiring

P.S. Let me leave you with this quote. A friend of mine, Jean Kelly, sent me this message last week: “Your life will be similar to the way it is today EXCEPT FOR the books you read and the people you meet.”