Books - buying, reading and selling

It's always great when you can take a pile of books that were good for one round of eye contact and put them on Amazon for someone else to peruse. That's what I'm doing right now. It's 11 books to be exact. All of them were purchased in the bookstore or already used on Amazon. I could go to libraries, but I find a certain joy in actually purchasing books. Part of it is the ambiance of the bookstore and I don't know what the other part is, but I'm allowing myself to keep this habit.

Some of them are:

• Discover Your Inner Economist by Tyler Cowen
• Blink by Malcolm Gladwell - interesting
• The Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowiecki - interesting
• Crucial Confrontations by a lot of people - good for dealing with people at work
• Crucial Conversations by a lot of people - good for dealing with people at work
• Guide to Investing by Robert T. Kiyosaki (the Rich Dad, Poor Dad author) - it was a bit much information for me. He makes investing too difficult.
• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini - excellent, but sad book.
• A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini - excellent book to read on Thanksgiving Eve. I stayed up most the night reading it and became very grateful for my life and very sad for many others.

I am not selling the "Microtrends" book. It's by Mark J. Penn. It has over 50 little chapters about microtrends taking hold in the United States/World like how there will be more left handers since it's no longer negative (I'm a lefty so this is what I remember), soccer mom votes swinging elections, immigrant religions swaying votes as well as economics, more really young online millionaires, pets gaining importance in society, etc. Very interesting to see the impact of little trends on politics and economics.

Hey, while I'm typing my first book was purchased!