An engaging, if sometimes muddled, guide to finding the right life coach.
A highly personal motivational manual focuses on life coaches.
“What do I want to do?” Kelly asks early on in this debut work of nonfiction. “What would I like to do? What would I like to do that gives life meaning?” The author knows that these and other key fundamental questions beset her readers, and she offers a wide range of thoughts on the kinds of coaches people might consult in order to help them navigate the complicated field of possible answers. “Working with a coach is admitting that the coach has knowledge you don't have,” she writes. While this isn’t exactly true (coaches in everything from sports to executive management are typically used for their clarity and motivation, not for secret knowledge), Kelly’s book seeks to be a guide to discovering the right kind of coach for whatever a person feels is lacking in life. In a fast-paced overview of the assorted sources where people over the centuries have gone in search of direction, the author quickly checks in with such widely varied topics and figures as the Myers-Briggs personality test, Mary Baker Eddy, Dr. Spock, the collective wisdom, war brides, the GI Bill, and Weight Watchers, among many others. In clearly written short chapters, she helps readers assess not only the nature of their problems (Money troubles? Lack of discipline? Introvert living among extrovert expectations?), but also the best ways to test the virtues and shortcomings of the great range of potential coaches available in just a single internet search. Whether it’s one-day seminars, weeklong retreats, or online webinars, she advocates a “trust, but verify” initial wariness. Some of the book’s breakdowns of how to gauge problems are usefully straightforward, but the wide range of subjects works against any feeling of narrative focus. And the author’s penchant for truisms—success is always in your hands; life takes many twists and turns; even “Know Thyself”—likewise blunts the manual’s more original content.
An engaging, if sometimes muddled, guide to finding the right life coach.Pub Date: Aug. 3, 2018
ISBN: N/A
Page Count: 145
Publisher: Kurti Publishing
Review Posted Online: Nov. 9, 2018
Review Program: Kirkus Indie
Dogged original research and superb narrative skills come together in this gripping account of pitiless evil.
Greed, depravity, and serial murder in 1920s Oklahoma.
During that time, enrolled members of the Osage Indian nation were among the wealthiest people per capita in the world. The rich oil fields beneath their reservation brought millions of dollars into the tribe annually, distributed to tribal members holding "headrights" that could not be bought or sold but only inherited. This vast wealth attracted the attention of unscrupulous whites who found ways to divert it to themselves by marrying Osage women or by having Osage declared legally incompetent so the whites could fleece them through the administration of their estates. For some, however, these deceptive tactics were not enough, and a plague of violent death—by shooting, poison, orchestrated automobile accident, and bombing—began to decimate the Osage in what they came to call the "Reign of Terror." Corrupt and incompetent law enforcement and judicial systems ensured that the perpetrators were never found or punished until the young J. Edgar Hoover saw cracking these cases as a means of burnishing the reputation of the newly professionalized FBI. Bestselling New Yorkerstaff writer Grann (The Devil and Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness, and Obsession, 2010, etc.) follows Special Agent Tom White and his assistants as they track the killers of one extended Osage family through a closed local culture of greed, bigotry, and lies in pursuit of protection for the survivors and justice for the dead. But he doesn't stop there; relying almost entirely on primary and unpublished sources, the author goes on to expose a web of conspiracy and corruption that extended far wider than even the FBI ever suspected. This page-turner surges forward with the pacing of a true-crime thriller, elevated by Grann's crisp and evocative prose and enhanced by dozens of period photographs.
Dogged original research and superb narrative skills come together in this gripping account of pitiless evil.Pub Date: April 18, 2017
ISBN: 978-0-385-53424-6
Page Count: 352
Publisher: Doubleday
Review Posted Online: Feb. 1, 2017
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Feb. 15, 2017
BOOK TO SCREEN
BOOK TO SCREEN
BOOK TO SCREEN
The author's youthfulness helps to assure the inevitable comparison with the Anne Frank diary although over and above the...
Elie Wiesel spent his early years in a small Transylvanian town as one of four children.
He was the only one of the family to survive what Francois Maurois, in his introduction, calls the "human holocaust" of the persecution of the Jews, which began with the restrictions, the singularization of the yellow star, the enclosure within the ghetto, and went on to the mass deportations to the ovens of Auschwitz and Buchenwald. There are unforgettable and horrifying scenes here in this spare and sombre memoir of this experience of the hanging of a child, of his first farewell with his father who leaves him an inheritance of a knife and a spoon, and of his last goodbye at Buchenwald his father's corpse is already cold let alone the long months of survival under unconscionable conditions.
Pub Date: Jan. 16, 2006
ISBN: 0374500010
Page Count: 120
Publisher: Hill & Wang
Review Posted Online: Oct. 7, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Jan. 15, 2006
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