Currently being Read by KjO
Current Reads
The Olsen Library
or what we fill our minds with.
Below is a list of the books that we are currently reading or have completed in 2008.
One new addition for this year is a direct link to Amazon.com. If you see something you like, just click the book and make a purchase from Amazon. Not only will this make you happy but it will make us happy as we get a little something, something from Amazon each time someone purchases a book from our list. Happy, happy, joy, joy!
Ok...let's get to the list...wait one last thing. KjO = Kristian and EbO= Emily.
Now, onto the library.
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Currently being read by EbO
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Finished by KjO Aug
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Finished by KjO March '08
Quick read on sitiuational leadership.
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Finished by KjO on Feb. 20th.
This is a quick short pop leadership book. There were a few golden nuggets. But I am going to let you discover those on your own. :)
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Finished by KjO on 2/13. This was a fascinating read. Cicero (106bc - 43bc) was one of Romes greatest citizens around the time Caesar rose to power [he opposed the dictatorship of Caesar]. On the good life talks about how to be happy, patriotism, being an orator, and the divinity of the soul. What is fascinating is the issues Cicero deals with are just as relevant today as they were over 2000 years ago. Here are a few quotes out of many that I really love.
- Good men are always happy
- Moral goodness is in itself sufficient for a happy life
- Everything that is good is desirable.
- The whole point of morality is its independence.
- Folly, even after it has attained what it was seeking for, is still never satisfied. But wisdom is invariably contented with what it has got. It never has anything to feel sorry about.
- Bounty is a bottomless pit. For how can it be anything else, when those who have got accustomed to being subsidized are bound to want more, and persons who have never been at the receiving end want to go there?
- Good deeds if badly placed become bad deeds
- It is also incumbent on everyone who holds a high governmental office to make absolutely sure that the private property of all citizens is safeguarded, and that the state does not encroach on these rights in any way whatever.
- The human soul is divine. When it leaves the body...it has the power to take the road back to heaven; and the better and more decently it has behaved in this life, the easier the road will be.
- Friendship...is the noblest and most delightful of all the gifts the gods have given to mankind.
- There is nothing more insufferable than a fool whom fortune has blessed.
- Nevertheless, nobody can reach any objective at all, however hard he tries, without first mapping out the path which will lead him to his goal.
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Finished by KjO Nov
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Completed by KjO Oct.
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Completed by KjO Nov
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Finished by KjO April
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![Freakonomics [Revised and Expanded]: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Z1scnqz1L._SL75_.jpg)
Finsihed by KjO and Ebo May
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