What Are You Reading This Summer?
Across the state the last day of school is often met with whoops of delight as kids bound through the door, and throw their tattered backpacks on the floor. Of course buried under old art projects, crumpled quizzes, and homework assignments lies a crisp sheet with blank lines. Students are challenged to fill in as many of these blanks as possible with titles they read during summer vacation.
It’s all part of the 2011 Governor’s Summer Reading Challenge !
The challenge was actually launched on May 6, several weeks before summer solstice, but who's counting? During the ceremony unveiling the annual challenge, State Librarian Kendall Wiggin stressed the importance of reading during summer.
Schools compete based on student population and grade level. And the program identifies schools with the highest participation and the highest books-per-student count.
(Click here for information on the Public Library of Waterford's summer reading challenge, One World, Many Stories.)
With that in mind, Capitol DisPatch decided to put the question to lawmakers across the Nutmeg State: What’s on your summer reading list? Here are the answers.
State Rep. Diane Urban a Democrat representing Stonington and North Stonington in the 43
Personal reading challenge: Fawcett wants to reach one book on each president. She recently finished books about Martin van Buren and William Henry Harrison. “I’m relearning American history through the eyes of the presidents.”
John Hetherington a Republican representing New Canaan and Wilton in the 125th House District.
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Bob Duff, a Democrat representing Norwalk and Darien in the 25 th Senate District Reading: “For the summer, I am reading Truman by David McCullough and Tipping Point and Blink both by Malcolm Gladwell. State Rep. John Frey a Republican representing
In Blink, Malcolm Gladwell claims that first impressions are accurate. He argues most people have enough experience to make a correct decision quickly. Nancy Pearl, the author of Book Lust, uses the "Rule of Fifty.
On July 2 and July 9, the show released, in two parts, a talk given by Canadian-raised writer Malcolm Gladwell, author of several bestselling non-fiction books including Blink, The Tipping Point and Outliers, as part of The New Yorker at Luminato
Malcolm Gladwell says in Blink that most decisions are made quickly, and despite further analysis we rarely change our minds. Sometimes detailed review is appropriate, but not always. Sometimes mountains result from the misguided belief that being
In a nanosecond, which is faster then a Malcolm Gladwell Blink, visitors to your site are making stay, go, ask for more information or never return here again decisions. We have a rule: in 10 seconds your website visitor has to be engaged.
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Ever wondered how your intuition sometimes guides you to the right decision long before your “rational self” gets a chance to properly examine the situation ? Do you wonder what it is that happens when you make a decision that just “feels right” ?
Blink attempts to explain those “moments when we ‘know’ something without knowing why”.
In the brilliant story-telling style of Malcolm Gladwell, Blink tells the stories of an art expert that could recognize a fake sculpture after mere seconds of looking at it, a marriage counselor who could predict the longevity of a new marriage by thin-slicing through only the first three minutes of a marital argument, the tall men who tend to get elected more often to important positions, African-american students who are unconsciously racist against themselves, and the ER chief who dramatically improved his hospital’s heart attack diagnosis success rate by providing less information about the patients to the doctors. By revealing facts that seem highly counter-intuitive, Gladwell unlocks secrets of how we can learn to use our intuition for better decision-making, and warns of when our intuition can play against us.
Whether you’re interested in marketing, psychology, or simply curious about the way your own (and other people’s) heads work, Blink is the kind of book that you will read with fascination, then as soon as you’re done read again. Quoting the jacket of the book, “By trusting your instincts, you’ll never think about thinking in the same way again”
I highly recommend it.
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