Tongue-Fu

Finished Tongue-Fu by Sam Horn – a book I added to my list because it was highly recommended by so many sources – even a glowing review by Tony Robbins himself.  Here’s a quote from Library Journal:
“According to professional speaker and consultant Horn, the purpose of Tongue Fu, a spoken form of self-defense, is [...]

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On Method Acting

My reading has really fallen behind lately with everything going on, but I finally finished On Method Acting by Ed Easty.  It was a good read and helped me get a little more insight into the renowned Stanislavsky technique.  I didn’t really spend a lot of time with the exercises as it was more [...]

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Reading: Several…

Today was Renee’s surgery to implant her chemo port. She came through fine and is home now, but it means I got a lot of reading done.

Not Now, I’m Having a No Hair Day was the first on the roster. It attempts to be a humorous look at cancer treatment, but it just [...]

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Reading: On Method Acting

 
Finished On Method Acting by Edward Dwight Easty.  A good overview of the technique and exercises, although it was a pretty dry read.  This was actually a book I bought for Renee after we got started in community theater.  I’m really more of an amateur actor, but this book gave me a lot of great [...]

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Reading: The Dead Sea Scrolls Revisited

Around the holidays I usually ask for books.  Sometimes this bulk of material gets stuck away on a shelf and I don’t get to it like I planned.  I found this book on my shelf, completely unread since I received it this Christmas.  And since Amazon has been delaying my last shipment, I completely devoured [...]

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Reading: Who’s Afraid of a Large Black Man?

Tuesday we stopped by the bookstore and having a shipment of books already in-route from Amazon, I grabbed a magazine.  On the way out, I saw this in the bargain book bin and since this ~250 page book was cheaper than my magazine, I got this instead.  I have Charles’ other book and enjoyed it, [...]

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Reading: The Reluctant Parting

 
Just finished “The Reluctant Parting”, a wonderful book on the New Testament from the perspective of a former-Christian, currently-Jewish author.
It was a good overview of all 27 books, including authorship details, cultural practices and the Jewish perspective on a book written exclusively by Jews and read by almost none today.  The most stimulating bit of [...]

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Reading: Man’s Search for Meaning

I read again “Man’s Search for Meaning”, an incredibly moving book from Holocaust survivor and therapist Viktor Frankl. The autobiographical part of the book is stirring. The details of Logotherapy wore a bit thin on me this time around, since much of it was old news.
I don’t really relate to the [...]

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Reading: Unlimited Power

I just finished “Unlimited Power” by Tony Robbins, and I’m reading it again immediately.
This was a great, great book. I have resisted reading his stuff for quite a while because his ventures are so commercialized and he still has a bit of that infomercial stigma in my head – but I was completely wrong.  This [...]

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Reading: Watchmen

Re-read “Watchmen” while waiting for a new book shipment, because it’s an easy and quick read.  This makes about the 10th time I’ve been through this series.  It really was an amazing turning point for comics.  I caught it a few years late, but the impact was no less effective.  The shifts between current and [...]

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