My bookshelf

1. Drop the Pink Elephant
By Bill McFarlan. This erstwhile BBC-walla will now tell us how to get the fat, unnecessary stuff out of the way in conversations, and perhaps get to the bone. I'm on chapter 3 - what I have learned so far seems insightful.

2. Not Buying It
Judith Levine goes on about a year of not shopping. Her style is known for engaging political, cultural and economic macro-concerns into daily life. I'm looking forward to being intimidated and enlightened in equal measure.

3. Eat That Frog
and once you get that over with, metaphorically speaking, says author Brian Tracy, you can spend the rest of your day working in the relief that the worst is over. The run-on title is "21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time."

4. Your First Novel
by Ann Rittenbergy and Laura Whitcomb - self-evident as to its content (another how-to guide), but has been lying around and been renewed for too long. Apparently someone at British Council Library wanted "How to Mind Map" by Tony Buzan and had it reserved, so I had to return it. It is both with relief and disappointment that I realised it wasn't the write your novel book they wanted but an organising tool. sigh.

5. Shantaram
by Gregory David Roberts, a tale of Mumbai's world of crime, sex, drugs, and anything else that sells I suppose. It's about a 1000 pages, and I've perhaps read 10, but hope springs eternal. The only element of fiction in my collection of self-improvement-centered reading. :)

Also:
Am watching a josei manga anime on youtube (thank you, youtube!).
and fawlty towers also sits on shelf waiting patiently to be viewed, and perhaps reviewed.