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Screw it, Let’s do it!

Last year one resolution which I tried to fulfill to a large extent was getting back to my reading habit again. Once a voracious reader, my reading habit has almost gone to nil since the day I started working. With other priorities and absolute paucity of time, I hardly managed to read much book in last 3-4 years. So, in 2008 one of my resolutions was to get back to reading books. I knew I couldn’t get back to my old count of reading which was almost a book every week, so I thought of setting a reasonable target of 1 book every month :-). Well, I didn’t accomplish it fully but still I’m happy as I managed to read 10 books – 7 fiction & 3 business in 2008 as against only 2 books in 2007 :-(. And the good thing was whatever I read turned out to be good or you can say that I only went for popular and positive review books. I just thought to share my views on some of those books and recommend it to my blog readers as these are really good reads as per me.


One of the books which I read last year and really liked was “Screw it, Let’s do it” by Sir Richard Branson. Though I am not much of a motivational or gyaan book loving person but still I liked it. In fact I liked it a lot! It’s a quick read, engaging from start to end and very-very positive. It stirs your mind & leaves a very different kind of impact on you. You just keep on thinking, “oh all this happened to Richard Branson before he became Sir Branson??? Though I was very much aware of the story of his life but still reading it again in this book was a very nice experience. I got so impressed with this book that I gifted it to two of my close friends who are into entrepreneurial ventures. I think this book is a must for all those who are working in some start-ups, or are entrepreneurs or are planning to start something on their own. And yeah number of pages are quite less, so you can finish it off quickly. I have already rated this book 5/5 on many book sites :-)

7 comments :

Waterfox said...

I have been planning to start my start-up ever since I could start planning :)
So when are you gifting me this book :D

Kanupriya said...

@ Abhishek: So, stop planning and start now :D. I think if u r one of those who keeps on planning for long then this book is all the more must for u.

Prasad said...

hav read this and yes loved it!

i would recomend this one 'who moved my cheese' by spence johnson

Smita said...

I have never liked Motivational books...but may be will get this one :-)

Nice blog :)

Anonymous said...

Kanupriya,

I plead guilty. It is my misfortune to have missed out so much. Anyway, as they say " Better Late than Never ". Good, you got back to reading. I feel lucky if I can finish my paper on the same day ( what with grandchildren who demand time whenever they are there and 2 dogs who do not want to be left unattended ). Thanks for nice words you put in. I write in this space too now under he same id though most of my posts are in o3.

Take care

Shayari said...

Wow that's nice, Sindhu. Will pick it soon:)

Reading tops in my resolution list too..it took a serious beating last year though:(

Anonymous said...

I havent read any book till-end till-date but Yes, I am currently reading "The Story of my experiments with truth"
:)

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