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Libby Page I read this book as part of another #WECAN book club. It was yet another book recommended by someone else, this time by a young and very talented colleague who read Page’s previous books (I didn’t) and thought it might be worth reading this one too. This recommendation was not one of those…
Glennon Doyle As part of the #WECAN book club, this month we read Glennon Doyle’s powerful book ‘Untamed: Stop pleasing, start living’. The title of the book initially reads like some book about grown-up women’s empowerment, which is not what I normally read. Therefore, I was not thrilled when this was proposed by one of…
Eva St John This is book 2 of the Quantum Curators series. I wrote about the first one here The second book starts with Julius going through training to become a Quantum Curator. When I started to read and realised what he is doing, I thought whether I would miss the Earth if dragged to…
Eva St. John Rating: 5/5 I just finished reading this book, as part of the #WECAN project book club I founded and boy, was this a good proposal for the book club. I stayed up last night until 3 am as I was unable to let it go and then I kept reading today until…
Last year, as part of the ‘Women Empowered through Coaching and Networking’, or shortly, the #WECAN project, I led a research study conducting a systematic literature review on women and networking. Other than the usual stuff of women facing barriers for not always being able to network and networks still functioning as boy’s clubs, with…
Get a book on Amazon I just finished reading the book by inspirational Kate Cousens, a PR practitioner who wrote an autobiographical book about her experience of rising up in ranks in what is still a man’s world. Unlike many books telling women what to do and how to succeed by concentrating on teaching them…
by Andrew Hastie Rating: 4/5 This is the second book in the Infinity Engines book series. I absolutely loved the first blog and I enjoyed this second book too. Get a book on Amazon The story in this book continues with an alternative timeline after it was abruptly changed at the end of book 1…
Author: Rona Jaffe This book gives a shocking account of what women faced when they first joined offices in the US as secretaries. Get a book on Amazon The author was a secretary herself and she wrote the book based on her experiences albeit in the form of a novel. The book has been initially…
Amazon delivered ‘An Education’ on Friday. I took it in my hands yesterday afternoon, and I did not go to sleep until I finished it. The book reads like a short history of British journalism as Lynn Barber worked in journalism since the 1970s, thus experiencing enormous changes in the industry and the British society…
Rating: 5/5 Authors: Mary M. Talbot, Kate Charlesworth and Bryan Talbot This is a very nice graphic novel outlining the life of a fictional suffragette Sally. While the character is fictional, the story is based on real suffragettes and an accurate historical narrative. There were indeed many working-class women who contributed towards the plight of…
Author: Andrew Hastie Rating: 5/5 Get a book on Amazon Do you know what is the best thing about this book? That is not only one book but a series of books. Therefore, now when I finished reading the Anachronist I don’t have to take a few days to decide which #timetravel book to read…
Author: Callie Langridge Rating: 5/5 If I could time travel, visiting suffragettes would be on the top of my list. I would absolutely love to meet some of those amazing women who fought for all of us, and because of whom I can be an academic today and have opportunities women of the past did…
# 5/5 Little Women by Louisa May Alcott has been labelled as a masterpiece with a very good reason. The book is captivating and memorable, and this is what every writer wants to accomplish with their work but not all writers do. I am giving this book a 5-star rating for the above reasons and…
Michelle Kenney, Harper Collins A few weeks ago, an email came through the Leeds Beckett’s University mailing list, one of many, announcing that our alumna has published a book and asking us to sign up for a raffle to get a free copy. Naturally, I once again thought how amazing our University is for always…
CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS Editors: Martina Topic, Leeds Business School, Leeds Beckett University, United Kingdom Sydney Heifler, The University of Oxford, United Kingdom Women in the Media: Who Creates the News? So far, the research has shown that women have less voice in the media than men do, both as the creators of news, the…
This is the final blog in the #SaveTheCulture series. The last book is a true story, “Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight”, published by Picador in 2002. The book is written by Alexandra Fuller and it is about her life and growing up in Africa. Thus, we get to follow her life from childhood…
New book by a group of European scholars discusses what constitutes excellent communication. Communication Excellence: How to Develop, Manage and Lead Exceptional Communication has been published by Palgrave (see here) recently, and the authors are Ralph Tench, Dejan Vercic, Ansgar Zerfass, Angeles Moreno, and Piet Verhoeven The book is a result of 10 years of the…
The next book I just finished from lovely “SaveTheCulture Initiative is Jane Smiley’s “Ordinary Love and Good Will”. I read edition from 1998 only entitled “Ordinary Love”. It is not a novel that has one story line, but a combination of two books in one, both with a similar theme: family and everyday life. You…
I read the second book I received in #SaveTheCulture Initiative. This one was more interesting than the first one, I have to say. This was also the first time I got hooked up with a book I did not enjoy. In other words, this book is so dark that you hate it, but you can’t…
I received the book from the #SaveTheCulture initiative I saw on Facebook. I wrote about it already in my previous blog post (see here). The first book came from Nairn, and this was my first stage of learning something new, because I never heard of Nairn before so I had to google it. As it…
In times when some people go to elections to choose hate over hope and collaboration, a beautiful initiative emerged on Facebook. The initiative is a chain where we send one book we love to a stranger, and get some sent to us by other strangers. In this initiative people from all over the world send…