The Cutting Season by Attica Locke
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
This story is dark and thick like a swamp at night - very haunting and creepy! The characters have depth and the emotions portrayed the true conflicting attitudes present in the south regarding its tumultuous history. The ending contained a surprise that I didn't see coming! When a book starts off with a corpse in the first chapter it can either be really good or really bad. This was really good!
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Building the Learning Organization: Achieving Strategic Advantage Through a Commitment to Learning by Michael J. Marquardt
My rating: 2 of 5 stars
This was a required reading in one of the courses I took while obtaining my Master's degree. While I liked that it wanted to cover best practices in some of the most successful companies in the world, I think that it just plain dragged along and was incredibly dry and boring. It could have easily been gleaned down to fewer pages, and have been reorganized to read a little more interestingly. While I agree that every organization should strive toward being a more flexible, learning-based organization, I don't necessarily recommend reading this book because it is so uninteresting.
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The Character of Organizations: Using Personality Type in Organization Development by William Bridges
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
This was a required textbook for a course that I took while obtaining my Master's degree. I enjoyed how it compared individuals to organizations and was well laid out with a steady flow. It would be a recommended read for any manager or person in charge of an organization in order to tap into the potential of all employees, thus utilizing the most important part of an organization. There were still many boring parts, as with any book utilized in a university classroom, but this was one of the better books I've read.
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The Bellmaker by Brian Jacques
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Join the brave creatures of Redwall as they venture out into the world in another great adventure! This novel had a lot of great firsts in it - a mole that didn't speak with a "rustic" accent, a rat that was actually one of the "good guys," and wolves. But it also had that same wonderful familiarity of all the other books in the series - some recurring characters, wonderful feasts, and dangerous adventures. Brian Jacques and his Redwall series should be added to any reading list for children for their fun, whimsical tales filled with important lessons - and quite a bit of poetry, so they can develop a love for poetry as well as prose!
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