Book Insights Podcast

Today in the Book Lounge, Tom & Karin discuss the book On Writing by Stephen King. Each week Book Insights creator and author of The 50 Classics Series Tom Butler-Bowdon and Memo’d Program Manager Karin Richey invite you to join their fun and casual conversation about the book of the week. Hear what they love it about, what they don’t, how they rate it, and how it can advance your work and lif...

*Working-class white America and the rest of the country inhabit “two separate worlds”, according to JD Vance.  *Most groups in America are intent on giving the best to their kids so they can succeed. Parents from Vance’s Appalachia ‘hillbilly’ culture don’t even seem to know where to start.  *Thrift, hard work, ambition, the pursuit of knowledge are alien to them, so it’s little surpris...

Today in the Book Lounge, Tom & Karin discuss the book Hillbilly Elegy by JD Vance. Each week Book Insights creator and author of The 50 Classics Series Tom Butler-Bowdon and Memo’d Program Manager Karin Richey invite you to join their fun and casual conversation about the book of the week. Hear what they love it about, what they don’t, how they rate it, and how it can advance your work and li...

* Gabrielle Union has been a model, actress and advocate ever since her first television appearance on Family Matters in 1993.  * While she’s best known for her sassy leading role in cult classic cheerleading movie Bring It On , there is so much more to this talented woman than a 90’s teen movie.  * In this warm, candid and inspiring memoir, learn about her racially turbulent childhood,...

Today in the Book Lounge, Tom & Karin discuss the book We're Gonna Need More Wine by Gabrielle Union. Each week Book Insights creator and author of The 50 Classics Series Tom Butler-Bowdon and Memo’d Program Manager Karin Richey invite you to join their fun and casual conversation about the book of the week. Hear what they love it about, what they don’t, how they rate it, and how it can advanc...

* Money may make the world go round, but most of us were never taught exactly how – financial management is sadly lacking from school curriculums, despite it being a crucial skill in modern society, alongside reading, writing and arithmetic.  * Without any training in cashflow management, many people flounder when it comes to money matters and simply knuckle down, in the belief that hard work...

Today in the Book Lounge, Tom & Karin discuss the book Cashflow Quadrant by Robert Kiyosaki. Each week Book Insights creator and author of The 50 Classics Series Tom Butler-Bowdon and Memo’d Program Manager Karin Richey invite you to join their fun and casual conversation about the book of the week. Hear what they love it about, what they don’t, how they rate it, and how it can advance your wo...

* Claude Bristol was a hard-headed journalist, covering the religion beat for a large city newspaper.  * He met people from every denomination and sect, and later read hundreds of books on psychology, religion, science, metaphysics and ancient magic.  * Gradually, Bristol began to see the ‘golden thread’ which runs through all religions and esoteric teachings: that belief itself has amaz...

Today in the Book Lounge, Tom & Karin discuss the book The Magic of Believing by Claude M. Bristol. Each week Book Insights creator and author of The 50 Classics Series Tom Butler-Bowdon and Memo’d Program Manager Karin Richey invite you to join their fun and casual conversation about the book of the week. Hear what they love it about, what they don’t, how they rate it, and how it can advance...

* Did you grow up with a nagging feeling that you were different to others? Perhaps you spent a lot of time philosophizing about life and death or writing nature poetry, while other kids your age played Frisbee in the park. Or maybe, as an adult, you find yourself immersed in books while your friends binge-watch serial-killer shows on Netflix.  * It's possible that you’re a Highly Sensitive P...

Today in the Book Lounge, Tom & Karin discuss the book The Highly Sensitive Person by Elaine Aron. Each week Book Insights creator and author of The 50 Classics Series Tom Butler-Bowdon and Memo’d Program Manager Karin Richey invite you to join their fun and casual conversation about the book of the week. Hear what they love it about, what they don’t, how they rate it, and how it can advance y...

* The Road Less Traveled is inspirational, but in an old-fashioned way, putting self-discipline at the top of the list of values for a good life.  *If you believe there are no easy ways to enlightenment or even full mental health, that things like commitment and responsibility are the seeds of fulfilment, then you belong in Dr Peck’s world.  *The book is welcomed by anyone who has found...

Today in the Book Lounge, Tom & Karin discuss the book The Road Less Traveled by M Scott Peck. Each week Book Insights creator and author of The 50 Classics Series Tom Butler-Bowdon and Memo’d Program Manager Karin Richey invite you to join their fun and casual conversation about the book of the week. Hear what they love it about, what they don’t, how they rate it, and how it can advance your...

* A modern classic and international bestseller, A Brief History of Time tackles the fundamental questions of physics – where did the universe come from?  * How did it come into existence? Where does it end? – in clear and jargon-free language.  * Stephen Hawking, regarded as one of the most brilliant theoretical physicists of all time, applies his searing intellect to these mind-bending...

Today in the Book Lounge, Tom & Karin discuss the book A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking. Each week Book Insights creator and author of The 50 Classics Series Tom Butler-Bowdon and Memo’d Program Manager Karin Richey invite you to join their fun and casual conversation about the book of the week. Hear what they love it about, what they don’t, how they rate it, and how it can advance y...

* The final book from Stephen Hawking, Brief Answers To The Big Questions leaves us with the world-famous astrophysicist’s thoughts on the universe, its inception, development and uncertain future.  *Hawking returns to the questions he was most frequently asked at lectures, interviews and other events – everything from “what is inside a black hole” and “is time travel possible?” to “should we...

Today in the Book Lounge, Tom & Karin discuss the book Brief Answers to the Big Questions by Stephen Hawking. Each week Book Insights creator and author of The 50 Classics Series Tom Butler-Bowdon and Memo’d Program Manager Karin Richey invite you to join their fun and casual conversation about the book of the week. Hear what they love it about, what they don’t, how they rate it, and how it ca...

* Rhonda Byrne stumbled on ‘the Secret’ at a low point in her life, shortly after her father died.  *Reading the New Thought classic, The Science of Getting Rich , introduced her to the ‘law of attraction’ and by implementing its message, she soon began to reap the rewards, both personally and financially.  *Eager to spread the word, she began developing the idea for a film and interview...

Today in the Book Lounge, Tom & Karin discuss the book The Secret by Rhonda Byrne. Each week Book Insights creator and author of The 50 Classics Series Tom Butler-Bowdon and Memo’d Program Manager Karin Richey invite you to join their fun and casual conversation about the book of the week. Hear what they love it about, what they don’t, how they rate it, and how it can advance your work and lif...

Today in the Book Lounge, Tom & Karin discuss the book The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho. Each week Book Insights creator and author of The 50 Classics Series Tom Butler-Bowdon and Memo’d Program Manager Karin Richey invite you to join their fun and casual conversation about the book of the week. Hear what they love it about, what they don’t, how they rate it, and how it can advance your work and...

* The lesson to be learnt from this book could be the most important you will ever learn: how to conquer fear and live to the fullest.  * Coelho’s is a story that shows us that we can live not only an exciting life, but the best life imaginable.  * No matter who you are, no matter where you are from, to travel on your own path is to truly live for yourself, follow your destiny and be ali...

* In Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell digs deep into the factors which determine remarkable achievement. Success isn’t necessarily out of reach, the domain of the gifted few.  * He asks how much is success inherent in the person, and how much is due to environment? The ‘story’ of success, he determines, is a lot more complex than the motivational books or the autobiographies of self-made men would...

Today in the Book Lounge, Tom & Karin discuss the book Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell. Each week Book Insights creator and author of The 50 Classics Series Tom Butler-Bowdon and Memo’d Program Manager Karin Richey invite you to join their fun and casual conversation about the book of the week. Hear what they love it about, what they don’t, how they rate it, and how it can advance your work and l...

* Presenting a revolution in behavioral psychology, Thinking, Fast and Slow , uncovers the unconscious flaws and prejudices in our decision-making. * Nobel Prize-winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman reveals the two ways in which we make choices, his System 1 and System 2: the first is fast, associative, automatic; the second slow, deliberate and more taxing – kicking in when we’re filling out a ta...

Since co-founding the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in 2000, Melinda Gates has worked on initiatives to improve healthcare and educational opportunities and reduce poverty around the world.  The foundation’s mission has taken her across Africa, India and Southeast Asia, as well as closer to home in the US.  Throughout her travels, she has met inspiring and courageous women struggli...