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My favorite books- Marked by Words
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items Books have a way of leaving fingerprints on our hearts — shaping how we see the world, the people in it, and even ourselves. This list is a collection of my favorites, the ones I return to when I need comfort, challenge, or simply the joy of a well-t...
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The Page-Turner That Stuck
People oriented-Shelf Life: My Top Reads
Comically the way to laughs
The Page-Turner That Stuck
Good book Darren Hardy’s The Compound Effect explains how the little choices we make every day—good or bad—accumulate into major outcomes. Whether it’s building wealth, improving health, or reaching personal goals, lasting success doesn’t come from s...
The Compound Effect - Hardy, Darren: Books
Good explanation in short term
📘 30-Second Theories – Summary
This book breaks down 50 of the most important scientific theories—from relativity to game theory—into bite-sized explanations you can grasp in 30 seconds or less. Each theory is presente...
30-Second Theories: 50 Thought-provoking Science Theories
How to grow food always a good idea
🌱 Grow Food for Free – Summary
In Grow Food for Free, Huw Richards shares how to start a thriving garden with zero money—just creativity, time, and resourcefulness. From composting kitchen scraps to building raise...
Grow Food For Free: Sustainable, Zero-Cost Way
Good advice for nonprofit organizations
📘 The Networked Nonprofit – Summary
This book shows how nonprofits can use social media to become more transparent, agile, and connected. Instead of controlling their message, “networked nonprofits” engage com...
The Networked Nonprofit: Social Media for Change
The Power of One is a sweeping, inspirational coming-of-age novel by Bryce Courtenay that follows the journey of Peekay, a young English boy growing up in South Africa during the 1930s and 1940s. Amid racial tension and political unrest, Peekay endur...
The Power of One: A Novel by Bryce Courtenay
This is one of my favorite artists of the ’80s — and one of my favorite publishing finds, too.
There’s something about this era that still hits different: the storytelling, the sound, the style. I keep coming back to it for inspiration.
More thought...
Jean-Michel Basquiat - Books
It’s always good to journal the thoughts out — especially on lined paper.
Later, when you come back to them, you don’t just read your words… you see your patterns.
Patterns reveal growth.
Gaps show grace.
And the messes?
They usually make th...
Thoughts Journal
Favorite graphic novel
🎭 Kabuki by David Mack – Summary
Kabuki is a visually stunning, psychologically layered graphic novel series by David Mack. It follows Kabuki, a masked female assassin in a near-future Japan, working for a secret government a...
The Complete Kabuki: 30th Anniversary Ed.
People oriented-Shelf Life: My Top Reads
🧠✨ Good Memories Building the Memory Jogger
Some memories are loud. Others whisper. But all of them build us.
This little project — The Memory Jogger — started as a way to collect the small moments that shaped me:
• the smells I forgot I loved
• ...
The Memory Jogger: Pocket Guide for Improvement
📘 Humans by Brandon Stanton – Summary
In Humans, Brandon Stanton expands beyond New York to capture stories from people around the world. Through striking portraits and raw, honest interviews, the book offers a powerful reminder that every person—no...
Humans: 9781250114297: Stanton, Brandon: Books
Learning -savings - techniques
📘 Save More Tomorrow – Summary
Save More Tomorrow presents a behavioral approach to helping people save for retirement. Instead of asking people to save now, it asks them to commit to saving more later—like at their ...
Save More Tomorrow
📘 Book Concept:
This is not just a prompt book — it’s a visual language tool.
Each prompt is a core visual symbol (like ladder, key, flame, window) followed by multiple creative paths that treat it like a thesaurus entry, helping artists explore it...
Visual Thesaurus
📘 Reimagine Inclusion – Summary
In Reimagine Inclusion, Mita Mallick breaks down 13 common myths that hold back real progress in workplace diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). With clarity and candor, she challenges well-meaning but harmful assum...
Reimagine Inclusion: Debunking 13 Myths
Nobody by Marc Lamont Hill
A non-fiction work examining the systemic issues leading to the marginalization of certain groups in America. Hill discusses the historical and social developments around race, class, and the role of the state in creating ...
Nobody: Casualties of America's War on the Vulnerable
Helps teenagers with DIY business
📘 Business Model Generation – Summary
Business Model Generation is a practical guide for entrepreneurs and innovators to design, test, and implement effective business models. It introduces the Business Model Canvas...
Business Model Generation: Handbook for Visionaries
• Good for Culture: A Seven-Language Dictionary
• 7 Worlds
• Language of Light: A Mini Dictionary in Seven Tongues
• Good Words for a Good World
Seven Language Dictionary: Schumaker, David
Table Wisdom is where medicine meets soul.
In Kitchen Table Wisdom, Dr. Rachel Naomi Remen gathers moments of vulnerability, courage, and human connection. These simple stories—about patients, loved ones, and passing encounters—teach us that healing ...
Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal
Comically the way to laughs
One of the best
🌀 Dan Piraro – Summary
Dan Piraro is the creator of Bizarro, a surreal, smart, and offbeat single-panel comic that blends humor with social commentary, absurdity, and visual puns. First launched in 1985, Bizarro has become a cult fa...
Cartoons — Bizarro | Naked Cartoonist
This is my favorite
A curious girl named Alice falls down a rabbit hole into a whimsical world of talking animals, mad tea parties, and nonsensical logic—on a journey of wonder, identity, and imagination before waking up to find it was all a dream.
Watch Alice in Wonderland | Disney+
The onion
The A.V. Club is a separate publication that was originally founded as a sister outlet of The Onion, the well-known satirical news site. While The Onion publishes fake, comedic news stories, The A.V. Club is a legitimate pop culture and en...
AV Club
In Heart and Brain: Gut Instincts, Heart and Brain—and occasionally other organs like Stomach, Bowels, and Tongue—interact in humorous and often relatable comic strips.
These characters literally represent emotional impulses versus rational thinkin...
Heart and Brain: Gut Instincts Vol 2