Regine's Reviews: Books

2020

1. January 2020 Flashman, George McDonald Fraser :/
2. February 2020 The Compound Effect, Darren Hardy :D
3. March 2020 The Richest Man in Babylon, George. S. Clason
4. March 2020 The Small Business COVID-19 Survival Guide, Marnus Broodryk
5. April 2020 Jack, What I've learned leading a great company and great people, Jack Welch, CEO General Electric
6. April 2020 Your reputation matters, 40 tips and tricks during lockdown, Reputation Matters Team
7. April 2020 Royal Flashman, George McDonald Fraser :)
8. May 2020 Tough Choices, Carly Fionrina :)

9. June 2020 Predictably Irrational, Dan Ariely :D

10. June 2020 Audiobook: Think and Grow Rich, Napoleon Hill, :D :D

11. June 2020 Mother Teresa, Her life, her work, her message, José Luis González

12. July 2020 Audiobook: How to Talk to Anyone, Leil Lowndes, :D

13. July 2020 How to Know God, The Soul's, The Soul's Journey into the Mystery of Mysteries, Deepak Chopra :)

14. July2020 Audiobook: Your First 100 Million, Dan Peña :)

15. August 2020: Leaving Before the Rains Come, Alexander Fuller :/

16. August 2020: The Monk Who Sold His Ferari, Robin Sharma :D

17. August 2020: The Transformed Mind, Reflections on truth, love and happiness, His Holiness The Dalai Lama :)

18. September 2020: Oros vir die Siel, Die verhaal van Kyle, Susan Coetzer :)

19. September 2020: Audiobook: Shoe Dog, A Memoir by the Creator of Nike, Phil Knight :)

20. September 2020: Coco Chanel, The Legend and the Life, Justine Picardie :/

21. October 2020: Audiobook: The Subtle Art of Not Giving A F*ck, Mark Manson :)

22. November 2020: Audiobook: Everything is F*cked, A book about hope, Mark Manson :/

23. November 2020: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain :/

24. November 2020: When the Lion Feeds, Wilbur Smith :D

25. December 2020: Perfume, Patrick Süskind :/

26. December 2020: Audiobook: Tao Te Ching, Lao Tzu :)

DNF

A Treasury of Kahlil Gibran
The Book of Heroic Failure, Stephen Pile

2019

January 2019 The Google Story, David A Vise :)
January 2019 Op die agterpaaie, Dana Snyman :)
February 2019 Adrian Mole: The Wilderness Years, Sue Townsend :|
February 2019 Lost and Founder, Rand Fishkin :)
February 2019 Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years, Sue Townsend :)
February 2019 Where Angels Fear to Tread, E.M. Forster :|
March 2019 Disgrace, J.M. Coetzee :D (very good, but disturbing)
March 2019 The Black Swan, Nassim Nicholas Taleb :(
March 2019 Five Quarters of the Orange, Joanne Harris :(
March 2019 Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus, John Gray PhD :D
March 2019 Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, Alexander Fuller, :)
April 2019 Gilead, Marilynne Robinson :|
April 2019 Ons is nie almal so nie, Jeanne Goosen :)
May 2019 How to think bigger, Martin Meadows (ebook) :)
May 2019 Pillars of the Earth, 10th Anniversary Edition, Ken Follett :D
May 2019 Leonardo da Vinci, The Biography, Walter Isaacson :)
May 2019 Left to Tell, Immaculée Ilibagiza :D (brilliant read)
June 2019 The Pressure Cooker, Nkiru Olumide-Ojo :)
June 2019 Good to Great, Jim Collins :D
June 2019 Eats, Shoots & Leaves, Lynne Truss :)
July 2019 Mind Power, John Kehoe :D
July 2019 Mister God, This is Anna, Papas Fynn :)
July 2019 The Goldfinch, Donna Tartt :D
July 2019 Gangster State, Pieter-Louis Myburgh :)
July 2019 Orion, Deon Meyer :D
August 2019 Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller :/
August 2019 Barry Sheene 1950 - 2003, Stuart Barker :)
August 2019 Die Snydokter van Stalingrad, Konsalik :D
September 2019 Stoked!, Chris Bertish :D
October 2019 McAuslan in the Rough, George MacDonald Fraser :/
October 2019 The Little Pot Boiler, Spike Milligan :)
October 2019, Adrian Mole, The Prostrate Years, Sue Townsend, :/
October 2019 Public Speaking & Influencing Men in Business by Dale Carnegie :D
October 2019 Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction, Sue Townsend :)
November 2019 103 Disempowering Beliefs About Money and Success and How to Eliminate them in Minutes, Nick Ortner :)
November 2019 Mastering the Rockefeller Habits, Verne Harnish :D
November 2019 The Stellenbosch, Inside the Billionaire's Club, Pieter du Toit

DNF:

~~All over the place: Adventures in Travel, True Love, and Petty Theft, Geraldine DeRuiter~~ ~ :( DNF

The Bridge: the Life and Rise of Barack Obama, David Remnick

2018 Books

My favourites this year were: The State of Africa, Around Africa On My Bicycle and I thoroughly enjoyed Stoner as well.

January 2018 The Noticer, Andy Andrews
February 2018 Sh*t My Dad Says, Justin Halpern
March 2018 Star Wars, The Courtship of Princess Leia, Dave Wolverton
March 2018 The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole, Sue Townsend
April 2018 The Best Place To Work, Ron Friedman, PhD
April 2018 unedited, Jane Raphaely
April 2018 Number 10, Sue Townsend
May 2018 Die Tweede Lewe, Chris Barnard
May 2018 True Confessions of Adrian Albert Mole, Margaret Hilda Roberts and Susan Lilian Townsend, Sue Townsend
May 2018 Amelia Earhart, her last flight, Oliver Knaggs
June 2018 The 9 Steps To Financial Freedom ~ Practical & Spiritual Steps So You Can Stop Worrying, Suze Orman
June 2018 Botswana Time, Will Randall
July 2018 The State of Africa, Martin Meredith
August 2018 SynchroDestiny, Deepak Chopra
August 2018 King IV Report on Corporate Governance for South Africa 2016
September 2018 Banker to the poor, The Autobiography of Muhammad Yunus, founder of the Grameen Bank, Muhammad Yunus with Alan Jolis
September 2018 The Talking Parcel, Gerald Durrell
September 2018 Geldwolf. Carel van der Merwe
September 2018 Getting to YES, Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In, Roger Fisher and William Ury
September 2018 The Boer War Diary of Jan Leendert Moerdijk 1899 - 1902
October 2018 ~~Dear Genius, A memoir of my life with Truman Capote, Jack Dunphy~~ [DNF]
October 2018 The Leopard in the Luggage, Arthur Goldstuck
November 2018 Around Africa On My Bicycle, Riaan Manser
November 2018 Around Madagascar On My Kayak, Riaan Manser
December 2018 The 4-Hour Body, Timothy Ferriss
December 2018 Stoner, A Novel, John Williams
December 2018 How we made it in Africa, Jaco Maritz
December 2018 Shantaram, Gregory Davids Roberts
December 2018 Complete Kak! Tim Richman & Grant Schreiber
December 2018 Myths of Ancient Greece, Robert Graves
December 2018 The Woman Who Walked Into Doors, Roddy Doyle

2017 Books

It's been a wonderful year of reading and catching up on classics!

January 2017: Confessions of the Pricing Man, How Price Affects Everything: Hermann Simon
January 2017: Treasure Island
January 2017: The Book of Joy, Dalai Lama, Demond Tutu, Douglas Abrams
February 2017: The Boer War, Thomas Pakenham
March 2017: Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, J.M Barrie
March 2017: Real Magic, Creating Miracles in Everyday Life, Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
April 2017: Out of Africa, Karen Blixen
April 2017: The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13 3/4, Sue Townsend
April 2017: Murder On The Orient Express, Agatha Christie
April 2017: Lean In, Women, Work and the Will to Lead, Sheryl Sandberg
April 2017: Aesop's Fables, Aesop
May 2017: Franklin's Autobiography, Benjamin Franklin
May 2017: What the Dog saw and other adventures, Malcolm Gladwell
May 2017: How to Win Friends and Influence People, Dale Carnegie
June 2017: The Republic of Gutpas, Pieter-Louis Myburgh
June 2017: Reputation Matters, Regine le Roux
June 2017: Ek is maar ene, Dot Serfontein
July 2017: The Way I See It, Alan Sugar
July 2017: French Women Don't Get Fat, Mireille Guiliano
August 2017: Superwoman, Everything you need to know about running a home in South Africa today, Shirley Conran
August 2017 Winnie Mandela, a life Anné Mariè du Preez Bezdrob
August 2017 Between the Devil and the Deep, A memoir of Acting and reacting, Pieter-Dirk Uys
August 2017 Own Your Space, The Toolkit for the Working Woman, Nadia Bilchick & Lori Milner
September 2017 Everest Untold, Diaries from the first South African Everest Expedition, Patrick Conroy
September 2017 Die Plesierboom, Audrey Blignaut
September 2017 The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
October 2017 Frankenstein, Mary W. Shelly
October 2017 Smartwoman, Sylvia Walker
November 2017 Howard Hughes, The Untold Story, Peter Harry Brown and Pat H. Broeske
November 2017 It's time to fire your Financial Advisor, Almo Lubowski
December 2017 The President's Keepers
December 2017 ~~Cape~~ Gang Town, Don Pinnock
December 2017 Lady Chatterley's Lover

2016 Books

Frustratingly I did not hit the 24 book goal; the year was however filled with many great reads. My favourite was Max du Preez's "Of warriors, lovers and prophets," he shared fascinating stories of South Africa's history.

January 2016: Instant Repeat Business, Brad Sugars
January 2016: Blou van ons Hemel, Quintus van der Merwe
January 2016: Chicken Soup for the Soul at Work, Jack Canfield | Mark Victor Hansen | Maida Rogerson | Martin Rutte and Tim Clauss
March 2016: Healing Habits, the key to understanding your underlying emotional issues; Ann Gadd
March 2016: Of warriors, lovers and prophets; unusual stories from South Africa’s past; Max du Preez
May 2016: Sewe Koppies Rys, Sita
May 2016: Old Pretoria, Dr Gustav S Preller
July 2016: The Respect Effect, Paul Meshanko
July 2016: The Bushman Winter has come, Paul J. Myburgh
August 2016: Born to Run, Christopher McDougall
September 2016: Scaling Up, Verne Harnish
October 2016: Happyslapped by a jellyfish, The words of Karl Pilkington
October 2016: Three Cups of Team, Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
November 2016: Maverick! Ricardo Semler
December 2016: Inside Coca-Cola, A CEO's Life Story of Building the World's Most Popular Brand, Neville Isdell with David Beasley
December 2016: The Power of Positive Thinking, Norman Vincent Peale
December 2016: Byleveld, Dossier van 'n baasspeurder, Hanlie Retief
December 2016: Kamee, Roela Hattingh

2015 Books

My goal last year was to read at least 20 books, I managed 24 in total. This year I plan on maintaining the 24 books for the year goal.

January 2015 The 4Hour Work Week, Timothy Ferriss
January 2015 The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, Stephen R. Covey
February 2015 Man's Search for Meaning, Viktor L. Fankl
March 2015 The Snowball - Warren Buffet and the business of life, Alice Schroeder
March 2015 Dealing with Difficult People Secret, David Brown
April 2015 The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Patrick Lencioni
April 2015 Crazy is a Compliment. The Power of Zigging when everyone else Zags, Linda Rottenberg
April 2015 The Great Run, Braam Malherbe
April 2015 Lady You are Not a Man!, Apurva Purohit
May 2015 The Happiness Project, Gretchen Rubin
May 2015 The Icarus Deception, Seth Godin
June 2015 Lessons in radical innovation, Wolfgang Grulke with Gus Silber
June 2015 Business in Africa, Corporate Insights, Dianna Games
July 2015 The Fine Art of Small Talk, Debra Fine
July 2015 Motivating People, Sue Stockdale and Clive Steeper
August 2015 The Blue Ocean Strategy
August 2015 Leadership and Self Deception
August 2015 Brolloks en Bittergal, C. J Langenhoven
August 2015 Your Face Puzzle, Physiognomy simplified, Martie Maré
September 2015 Shackleton's Way, Margot Morrell and Stephanie Capparell
October 2015 The Prophet, Kahlil Gibran
November 2015 The Business Tango, Anna Shilina
December 2015 The Secret, Rhonda Byrne
December 2015 The Unpublished David Ogilvy, His secrets of management, creativity, and success- from private papers and public fulminations

2014 Books

One of my challenges that I have set myself is to read at least one book a month. Last year I read 17 books in total, this year (2014) I want to read at least 20.

January 2014 Die Groot Verlange, Die Verhaal van Eugene Marais - Leon Rousseau
January 2014 Instant Systems, Bradley Sugars
February 2014 Great by Choice, Jim Collins | Marten T. Hansen
March 2014 Oprah, Kitty Kelly
May 2014 Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman
May 2014 Successful Franchising, Bradly Sugars
June 2014 Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson
July 2014 Think Big and Kick Ass, Donald Trump and Bill Zanker
July 2014 Little Voice Mastery, Blair Singer
July 2014 Our Iceberg Is Melting, John Kotter | Holger Rathgeber
July 2014 Tinus de Jongh, His life and works
September 2014 McDonald's Behind the Arches, John F. Love
September 2014 A Book of English Idioms, V. H Collins
October 2014 The Rabbit in the Thorn Tree, Arthur Goldstuck
October 2014 Fat Genes to Skinny Jeans, Santie Pretorius
October 2014 Awaken the Giant Within, Anthony Robbins
November 2014 Super Brain, Deepak Chopra | Rudlph E. Tanzi
November 2014 Grape, Stories of the Vineyards in South Africa, Jeanne Viall,Wilmot James & Jakes Gerwel
November 2014 Nothing Left to Steal, Mzilikazi Wa Africa
December 2014 Digital Minds, 12 Things Every Business Needs to Know About Digital Marketing
December 2014 Once Upon a...Circus
December 2014 Hearing Grasshoppers Jump, The Story of Raymond Ackerman as told to Denise Prichard
December 2014 How to build a happy sandpit, Colin J Brown
December 2014 Een Lewe 'n Biografie geskryf deur Professor Dr C N Barnard en Curtis Bill Pepper

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