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Review of Hunting Discomfort

13 Feb 2024 1 minute read 0 comments powersjo

Hunting is Discomfort is written by Sterling Hawkins and is all about pushing through hardship while embracing the experience of your situation. Discomfort is necessary and you must go through it to come out on the other side. One of his first challe...

What children’s book author do you enjoy?

26 Jan 2024 1 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei

My vote goes to Andrew Clements. I stand ready for your recommendations.   Would like to share my review of one of his books.   Andrew Clements may be a children’s book author, but I never feel that reading his books are a waste of time. I think “...

How do you show yourself love?

22 Jan 2024 1 minute read 2 comments cryotosensei

No, you didn’t read the title wrong. I meant it as a personal finance musing.   My reflection began when I read this Japanese finance management book. In essence, 100 Japanese homemakers share one tip each about how they scrimp and save their house...

Book Review: “Help Me!”

21 Jan 2024 1 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei

I wasn’t too keen to read this book initially because the cover just screams chick lit even though it’s about a British journalist writing about how she applied the lessons found in 12 self-help books. But towards the end, I was reading this book du...

Book Review: Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site

17 Jan 2024 1 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei

I freely admit that I’m a book snob because I picked up this book from the book exchange corner on virtue of the fact that it’s a New York Times Bestseller. What’s more, it has been translated into Chinese. Enrapturing vehicle fans with colourful il...

The Witcher Saga - The Lady of the Lake - Part VI

16 Jan 2024 15 minute read 0 comments cryptogod-1

Good day everyone, I hope you are all having a good day, welcome to CryptoGod-1's blog on all things gaming and literature. Today I will be doing an analysis and review of the seventh book from The Witcher series, and the fifth book of The Witcher Sa...

Book Review: Coping with Learning Disability

16 Jan 2024 1 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei

  I teach English at a school, where students have failed the Primary School Leaving Examination. Bottom 200 children of the cohort. Where 12-year-old kids come to me, not knowing how to spell words like family, friend and nervous. It’s a testament...

Book Review: Help Me!

14 Jan 2024 1 minute read 1 comment cryotosensei

“Help Me!” details the journey of Marianne Power, a British freelance journalist who resolved to read one self-help book every month and apply its principles to whip her topsy-turvy life into shape. I enjoyed her second chapter so much that I am doi...

The Mystery of Capital

8 Jan 2024 3 minute read 3 comments fmiren

Introduction “The Mystery of Capital” by Hernando de Soto is an amazing book. It seeks to answer the question, “Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else”, which is also its subtitle. The question, as you can imagine, is too compl...

Book Review: “Jake Drake Teacher’s Pet”

28 Nov 2023 1 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei

I taught English at a primary school for 3 years. It was long enough for me to realise that when parents asked me for book recommendations, what they were really asking for were books that would help their kids ace their composition exams. If I were...