This week in Five Books UK. Election week

As the dust (volcanic and otherwise) settles on yesterday’s election, Labour MP and former Environment, International Development and Foreign Office Minister Chris Mullin gives tips to Britain’s new Prime Minister, saying that perhaps the Churchillian leadership style of dining at one’s club when there was a war on might have led to better government. ‘I don’t know. I mean all this racing around doesn’t necessarily do,’ he says. He chooses the best five political diaries.....

Finished reading : The second bounce of the ball. Turning risk into opportunity. An interesting book from Ronald Cohen.
It is a lifetime experience of someone who made billions out of calculated risk in investment opportunities.

I just finished Kathy Reich's 206 bones

Related


He was Argentina’s favorite son, one of the great South American writers of the last century (along with Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Carlos Fuentes, and Mario Vargas Llosa), and the winner of 46 national and international literary prizes. We’re talking about Jorge Luis Borges, the master of the postmodern short story. Borges was born in 1899, and to celebrate his 100th birthday (though he died in 1986), Philippe Molins directed the documentary, Jorge Luis Borges: The Mirror Man. The film’s major strength (as one reviewer put it) is that it’s a “bit of everything – part biography, part literary criticism, part hero-worship, part book reading, and part psychology.” It runs 47 minutes and includes a fair amount of archival footage

You can watch it in a larger format on Vimeo here

Thanks JP!!! Very interesting indeed!!
.