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I've had Starbucks on my virtual TBR for a couple of years (I'll get it from the library) so I'll be interested to know how you like it. Shall I look for the review around Thanksgiving? :-D
Take heart--the "beginning of the school year" only happens once a year! Of course, I find going ... ... going on. Writers love this stuff; readers tend to throw the book out the window. I'll suck it up and drive on.
14. How Starbucks Saved My Life
I HAD to take a break from Joyce and read this harmless, fluffy, short, simply-written memoir about an affluent ad executive turned poor, but ... Earlier after work (I work overnight :) at Borders I bought How Starbucks Saved My Life: A Son of Privilege Learns to Live Like Everyone Else by Michael Gates Gill, because, it being a memoir, seems too implausible, I just had it buy it. The second book I bought is the continuation of Star Tre ... Book #40 - How Starbucks Saved My Life - Michael Gates Gill - Finished May 1, 2009
I listened to this book on audio. Gill is an executive at a prestigious advertising firm in NYC. He joined the firm after graduating from Yale, and gradually worked his way up. However, when he is in his 50's ... Ok now that I am on vacation, I can catch up on reviews:
#36 How Starbucks Saved My Life - Michael Gates Gill
Synopsis: Michael Gates Gill had it all - he grew up in a brownstone in New York, the son of New Yorker writer Brendon Gill. He graduated from Yale and was offered a job ... # 36 - How Starbucks Saved My Life - Michael Gates Gill -- good book
Gates, a powerful boss at an ad agency is laid off, he tries to build his own firm but does not get anywhere. By chance, he is offered a job at Starbucks and his pompous view on life changes.
#37 - Jitterbug Perfume - Tom ... 6. How Starbucks Saved My Life
This was a book club read for March, 2009. Once again, a book I certainly would not have read, had it not been for book club.
It was a quick read, and I appreciated that the author spent as much time reflecting on his life, as he did talking about his ... ... Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler. Another one is The Undercover Economist by Tim Harford or, and that's a very obvious one, How Starbucks Saved my Life by Michael Gates Gill.
What I recently discovered was that Shakespeare goes very good with wine. =) ... of Lead - Anne Morrow Lindbergh 340 pages
April:
35. The Book Thief - Markus Zusak 552 pages
36. How Starbucks Saved My Life - Michael Gates Gill 265 pages
37. Jitterbug Perfume - Tom Robbins - 342 pages
38. The Killer Angels - Michael Shaar ... ... some other LT-ers and getting ideas from everyone for things to read outside of my usual comfort zone.
I just finished How Starbucks Saved My Life earlier today. It was interesting, but not particularly well-written. I'm definitely glad I found it on sale and only paid $3.99 for it as ... 1. How Starbucks Saved My Life by Michael Gates Gill (New)
This book was okay, I guess. It was a little too schmaltzy and heavy on what felt like Starbucks propaganda a lot of the time. The name-dropping from the author's pre-Starbucks life was annoying at times and some of the flashbacks ... ... all; 'A Work of Art' made me laugh out loud and 'Grief' made me want to cry; on my list of top books for the year
461. How Starbucks Saved My Life by Michael Gates Gill - nonfiction; a big 'Thank You' goes out to glassreader for the recommendation on this one; I enjoyed it more than I ... I am so glad you enjoyed it!
On that note, let me thank you for your recommendation of How Starbucks Saved My Life. I finished it in the wee hours of this morning and was inspired by it. I was worried that it was going to be one long commercial for Starbucks (and I do not even like coffee!) ... ... never read it and I wanted it for my Africa category in 999.)
alcottacre--I'll be interested to hear how you like How Starbucks Saved My Life. I've been thinking about reading that one--it sounds intriguing. On the agenda for the next few days, King Stephen 1135-1154, The Incredible Mrs. Chadwick, and How Starbucks Saved My Life.
ETA: The Touchstone for the book King Stephen will not work. The list includes all kinds of Stephen King books, which for me, are so obviously wrong! ... 319 pages. Intriguing mystery of scams in the rare wine world. I learned so much about the wine industry!
#118 - How Starbucks Saved My Life by Michael Gates Gill, 265 pages. The cover of this book explains it best - "A son of privelege learns to live like everyone else." Interes ... ... White Teeth - Zadie Smith (448)
136. A New Earth - Eckhart Tolle (315)
137. Free For All - Don Borchert (223)
138. How Starbucks Saved My Life - Michael Gates Gill (265)
139. It’s All Too Much - Peter Walsh (230)
140. Starbucked - Taylor Clark (297)
141. Water for Elephants - Sa ... Non-Fiction I want to read
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Dawn of the Dumb: Dispatches from the Idiotic Fron ... I just finished readingHow Starbucks Saved My Life by Michael Gates Gill a wunderful quick heartwarming read Currently reading The Incredible War of 1812 by J. Mackay Hitsman.
How Starbucks Saved My Life sounds good. I will have to look out for it. Thanks for the recommendation, glassreader. Hello all! I just finished How Starbucks Saved My Life by Michael Gates Gill. It's a memoir about a man who lost his job, a job he had given his life to, because he was to "old". 10 years later after a failed attempt on running his own company and his life coming unraveled, he is sitting at a S ... 22. How Starbucks Saved My Life by Michael Gates Gill
Very uplifting! Finished another nonfiction book: How Starbucks Saved My Life. This was a quick read and rather inspiring. He learned a lot of lessons about what values are important. Also read another Hess mystery, A Diet to Die For.
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3. Ghosts - Sylvia Booth Hubbard
4. A World Turned Over - Lorian Hemingway
5. How Starbucks Saved My Life - Michael Gates Gill
6. Deep South - Nevada Barr
7. Hunting Season - Nevada Barr
8. On Writing - Stephen King
9. The Third Transla ... How Starbucks Saved My Life: A Son Of Privilege Learns To Live Like Everyone Else - Michael Gates Gill How Starbucks Saved My Life: A Son Of Privilege Learns To Live Like Everyone Else - Michael Gates Gill
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