I Don’t Post Bad ARC Reviews. I Send the Author a Note.
If I can't give an advance copy five stars, I don't post a review. I send the author a note so they can fix the book, because a book can be corrected and a review is forever.
Tag: Book Reviews
Handling reviews as an author: getting them, reading them, surviving the bad ones, and what criticism versus critique actually means.
Book ReviewsThe Little Red Book of Stuff That Works!
An early Larry Winget book from 1995: a pocket collection of advice, ideas, principles and witticisms, published by his own Win Publications before the Pitbull years.
Book ReviewsYour Kids Are Your Own Fault
Larry Winget on parenting: not a fix-your-kid book but a fix-the-way-you-parent book. Decide what adult you want to raise, then parent with a plan.
Book ReviewsGrow a Pair
Larry Winget against victimhood: entitlement culture, the self-help industry and political correctness, and a blunt case for standing up for yourself and taking responsibility.
Book ReviewsYou’re Broke Because You Want to Be
Larry Winget's money book: debt is a behavior problem, and the fix starts with facing exactly what you owe. Built on his own story of losing a fortune and rebuilding it.
Book ReviewsIt’s Called Work for a Reason!
Larry Winget on the job: success at work is simple, results are everything, and your career is your own damn fault. Blunt advice for employees, managers and owners.
Book ReviewsNo Time for Tact
Larry Winget's page-a-day book: 365 short thoughts drawn from all of his earlier books, which he calls a true Best of Larry. The quickest way to sample his voice.
Book ReviewsShut Up, Stop Whining, and Get a Life
Larry Winget's breakout book: your life is your own fault, and everything gets better when you get better. No affirmations, no parables, just responsibility placed where it belongs.
Book ReviewsOpen: An Autobiography
Andre Agassi's 2009 memoir, written with Pulitzer-winning journalist J.R. Moehringer, in which he admits he hated tennis for much of his career. It's my favorite answer to anyone who asks what a ghostwriter is for.
Book ReviewsLife
Keith Richards's memoir of the Rolling Stones, written with journalist James Fox after years of interviews. It debuted at number one on the New York Times list and won the Norman Mailer Prize for biography.
Book ReviewsDid I Ever Tell You This?: A Memoir
Sam Neill's memoir, written in a burst in 2022 while he was being treated for blood cancer. It's funny, gossipy and self-deprecating, and it's how he told the world he was ill.
Book ReviewsLove’s Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy
Irvin Yalom's 1989 collection of ten case stories from his psychotherapy practice. It reads like short fiction, it's unusually honest about the therapist's own mistakes, and it's the book I point clinicians to when they ask how to write about…