2011 Books for Mentoring

Reading gives me great pleasure, so I spend a lot of time indulging myself. I also find that I am mentored by the books that I read, even novels, and books often shape my thinking. I try to read many different genres in a quest to be more creative in my thinking. I recently discovered that the books that I read were not as diverse as I thought, if you look at where the authors originate from. Below is a list of some of the books that I have enjoyed this year, how many on the list have you read? This is a sampling because I have read over 150 books since the start of 2011. If I have reviewed the book, I have included the link to the review. … [Read more...]

The Invisible Mentor Week in Review

To make it easy for you in case you missed our posts this week, here is what we talked about on The invisible Mentor Blog. Mondays at the Salon The right books make excellent mentors. When was the last time you read a good book? And what made that book so memorable? The Book as Mentor. Booked on Tuesdays We reviewed Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D H Lawrence. The book was banned in the US and Britain for over 30 years. Publishers feared being charged for obscenity, but this was back in the 1920s. The book is about social class but it could also be considered vulgar with the sexual activity. Despite that, it’s a good book with … [Read more...]

Booked for Mentoring: Review – Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D. H. Lawrence

In a quest to understand how books relate to life and the subsequent lessons they teach, I have been working my way through the classics. The books in my reading pile are frequently on “lists” of must-read books. Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D. H. Lawrence is one of the 50 books mentioned in Books that Changed the World: The 50 Most Influential Book in Human History by Andrew Taylor. Lawrence completed Lady Chatterley’s Lover in 1926, and spent two years trying to get it published. He subsequently printed it privately in Florence in 1928 two years before his death. Lawrence was already an established writer having already written … [Read more...]