Blink!

Recently I read another good book, 'Blink' by Malcolm Gladwell. The book is all about snap decisions that we all make at some time or the other. It talks about what might be going inside our brains at both the conscious and the sub-conscious levels at exactly the moments when we take those spur-of-the-moment desicions. And unwittingly, sometimes how crucial those desicions can be! It is certainly a very good read and I thoroughly enjoyed reading the book.

From now on, every book I will read I will rate it on a scale of 1-5, with 1 implying that you can throw it in a dustbin without even caring to find out its name and 5 implying that it's an amazing read and thoroughly enjoyable. You will love to buy this book for your personal collection. A rating of 4 will suggest that it's certainly an interesting book worth investing your time into. And I think my readers are intelligent enough to work out the meanings of the intervening ratings 2 & 3 .

I will christen these ratings as Solitary Meanderer's Book Rating or SMBR.

With this I am going to give SMBR to the last five books I read.

Blink - SMBR: 4
Author: Malcolm Gladwell
Category: Non-fiction

Fooled By Randomness - SMBR: 5
Author: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Category: Non-fiction

Understanding Power - SMBR: 4.5
Author: Noam Chomsky
Category: Non-fiction (you can read its review here)

Light In August - SMBR: 3
Author: William Faulkner
Category: Fiction (you can read its review here)

Living To Tell The Tale - SMBR: 5
Author: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Category: Non-fiction (you can read its review here)

SM's Note: All the ratings are reflective of my personal opinions.

Au revoir