Book Club gathering - Sun 26 July 2009

We had a book club session, there were 8 of us and we shared the following books:
Business Cycles: History, Theory and Investment Reality - Lars Tvede
The four-hour workweek - Timothy Ferriss
A pale view of Hill - Kazuo Ishiguro
中國大歷史 - 黃仁宇
Screen play - Syd Field
0-1 - 澤田尚美
香港社會企業妙點子 - 謝家駒
關於跑步，我說的其實是… - 村上春樹
Wonderful event, always fun to hear about what other people are reading and why they like the book.

Book Club 15 March 2008

9 people turned up (7 in the photos) at our book club gathering and we talked about many things and we talked about 6 books

La sagesse des contes (buy from Amazon) by Alexandro Jodorowsky

The God Delusion (buy from Amazon) by Richard Dawkins
"I think therefore I am" - A collection of short article by a Hong Kong writer - Chan Wan
"Il Decamerone", written by the Italian humanist writer Giovanni Boccaccio almost 650 years ago, Il Decamerone contains a hundred tales supposedly told in ten days. 
Visualizing Boccaccio: Studies on Illustrations of the Decameron, from Giotto to Pasolini (Cambridge Studies in New Art History and Criticism) (buy from Amazon) by Jill M. Ricketts
"All kind of gods in ancient China"

Margin of Safety: Risk-Averse Value Investing Strategies for the Thoughtful Investor (buy from Amazon) by Seth A. Klarman

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Leglessbird Book Gathering 1 Dec 2007

7 people turned up for a nice group discussion on books, life, polities and else. We discussed 3 very interesting books. They are:

Wolf Totem: A Novel (buy from Amazon) by Jiang Rong

Asian Godfathers: Money and Power in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia (buy from Amazon) by Joe Studwell

Freakonomics [Revised and Expanded]: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (buy from Amazon) by Stephen J. Dubner

Book Club Gathering - 27 Oct 2007

We shared 4 books together and had great chat

Confessions of an Economic Hit Man (buy from Amazon)by John Perkins

The Starbucks Experience: 5 Principles for Turning Ordinary Into Extraordinary (buy from Amazon) by Joseph Michelli

Fooled by Randomness Revision (Not Available in US): The Hidden Role of Chance in the Markets and Life (buy from Amazon) by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
And a book on back problem, what exercise can help.