Little Mix - Our World

This is a book about the British band Little Mix. It is a bit dated. The book goes up to around 2015 or 2016. The band won the British version of American Idol. This is their story.

The theme of the book is that YOLO. If you want something, you should go for it. However you got to be ready for obstacles and a lot of hard to work to overcome them.

There were a lot of pictures of each of the girls. They all seem close to their families, and especially their mothers. For some reason, they like Domino's pizza. They also like Japan and the Harajuku girls.

Joe College

 

Danny is a junior at Yale. He works as a dishwasher in the dining hall. His family is not wealthy. Danny's dad decided to buy a food truck and make a run as a business owner. Unfortunately his dad's health is not good. When Danny comes home for college breaks, he starts working in the truck with his dad. Later he tacks over the truck runs.

The truck has to make it to different sites on time for worker breaks. Danny gets up really early to collect the supplies and make it to the sites on time. Eventually some mobsters want to make a move on the food truck business. Danny tells the mobster's son to kick rocks. He says the same to the godfather. Later the mobster's son come with a baseball bat and some goods. Danny manhandles the son. In retaliation, the mobsters torch the food truck.

Danny met up with a past school girl he met on one of his truck runs. They got hot and heavy kissing, but it took a long time for her to give into sex with him. Once the deed was done, Danny lost interest and hid from her at his college. Eventually this girl shows up in Danny's dorm pregnant. Danny still tells her he is not ready to be a dad. The girl decided to get with a past boyfriend who will marry her.

Danny is more interested in a girl who is part of a literary magazine he is a part of on campus. This girl is Polly. She is complicated at she is sort of breaking up with a professor she was dating. However the professor and Polly still seem to want to be a couple, even though the professor has moved on to some other chick. The pregnancy ex-girlfriend of Danny gets in the way of Danny making progress with Polly.

Eventually Danny realizes he has lost with Polly. Instead he gets with a coworker at the dining hall, who does not attend school at Yale. She only works there. She is hot. The last guy that dated her got a severe beat down by her overprotective brothers. They literally put him in the hospital and he had to get a lot of surgery. To add insult to injury, the girl from the dining hall dumped the hospital-bound boyfriend.

Election

Election is a book about an election for high school president. There are a host of characters running as candidates. Paul is the jock. His sister is the anarchy type wildcard. Tracy is a hard worker with little to no friends. The funny thing is that the adults are the best characters in the story.

There is one teacher who is having an affair with Tracy. He gets found out and is gone immediately. Then there is Mister M, who I think is the main character. He teaches history. He also has an affair, but with a friend of the family whose husband left her. Mister M is one of the teachers who helps run the election.

There is some drama as Tracy goes into school one weekend and defaces Paul's election posters. Paul's sister takes the blame to aid in her making a case to transfer to a private Catholic school. Paul is also dating a girl that used to date his sister. Paul's girlfriend becomes his campaign manager.

The highlight of the book is the counting of the votes for the election. Paul voted for Tracy. And that put her ahead by 2 votes. Mister M did not like Tracy or her campaign manager. So he cheats and secretly tosses out 2 votes for Tracy into the trash. The next day, he is found out.

Warren Buffet - In His Own Words

This book is a compilation of sayings from Warren Buffet. He has a certain theory on stock investing. In general, he wants to buy stock in a company and keep it forever. The companies he is interested in are ones that can be profitable now and 100 years from now. He tries to compute the value of a company, and buy as much stock in the company when the price is a lot less than the value.

Buffet says that his investments are at a huge scale. It is hard for him to make huge gains based on how much stock he is purchasing. However for a regular investor, he thinks there is ample opportunity at a small scale to really clean up financially.

Buffet plans to give away the majority of his riches when he dies. He has partnered with Bill Gates to distribute the funds to worthy causes. Buffet's kids won't get rich from their dad's money.

Rise Up

The full title of this book is Rise Up - The #Merky Story So Far. It documents the life of Stormzy, who is a British singer. I originally know him from his collaboration with Little Mix on the single Power. The book mentions this collaboration.

Stormzy comes from a poor neighborhood in Britain. He was raised by a single mother from Ghana. Although he admits he was a naughty kid in school, he was obviously smart and went to college. He is known as an early and popular singer in the grime style of music.

In the beginning, Stormzy and his crew had little to no money. He sung at local events. His early songs were released on YouTube. His first album ended up at #1 on the week when it was released. He knew Ed Sheeran before Ed became huge. He won a couple awards related to being the best grime artist of the year for a couple years.

Essentially Charli

This is the first book by Charli D'Amelio. She says that she has been dancing from a very young age. She lived in Connecticut I think. One of her grandmothers was there. The other was in New Orleans. Her older sister is Dixie, who is more outgoing than her. Charli says she herself is rather shy.

Charli recounts how she was the first Tiktok star to get over 50M followers. It happened while she was asleep. Her fame has allowed her to go to some fashion shows. She also is a fan of Jennifer Lopez. Charli said it was unreal when she met J Lo. Apparently J Lo's kids love follow and love Charli.

While Charli does not mention her friends by name except her sister, she met her best friend when she was 10. They both attended a dance studio or class together. Charli says there are downsides to her fame. She get a lot of negative comments online. But she is trying to take everything in a positive note.

Something Happened

This book is about fictional character Bob Slocum. Bob works as a low level executive in a company in Connecticut. He does not like his boss, and the boss does not allow Bob to speak during the annual company meeting. Bob is a shoe-in for a promotion with a man he seems friendly with.

At home, Bob is married to an attractive stay at home mom. Bob dreams of divorcing her. Bob has a daughter who wants to drive. His middle child is a son who has troubles in gym, making friends, and understanding money. Bob's youngest is a disabled and retarded kid who needs a constant nurse.

When Bob started working, he thought he was in love with a secretary he flirted with. He was never able to bed this secretary because he did not know how to arrange it. He did save her once from being raped by two other employees. Later when Bob looked her up, he found she had committed suicide.

Bob's middle son stops talking to him, which disturbs Bob. His wife seems to keep getting drunk in the middle of the day. He worried about the success of his daughter. For some reason, Bob also dreams of killing himself.

Bob eventually gets the promotion. Bob's wife is mad that he had to replace an executive that Bob actually liked. Bob puts his wife in charge of finding them a bigger and more expensive house to move into. He buys his daughter a car to drive. Bob finds his power increasing at work, and threatens other powerful executives including his old boss.

The book culminates with Bob stepping in when a crazy secretary has a melt down. He directs the situation calmly, resulting in a round of applause when the secretary is led away by medical. Bob's troubles seem to fade away.