JAKs Picks
JAKs All Time Best Book Ever Read
Hands down, Annie Dillard’s Pilgrim at Tinker Creek has to be my ultimate favorite book. Her ability to observe and transform everyday things into sense of being is phenomenal. Whether you enjoy spiritual exposition or not, this book will teach you to see and to ask questions about the everyday objects you encounter.
JAKs All Time Best Fiction Book Ever Read
Again, Annie Dillard comes out on top with The Living. She paints such a vivid description of life in the Pacific Northwest as it was being settled. The gloom created by a combination of constant cloud cover and towering Douglas-fir forests created a barrier far greater and more daunting than the massive trees themselves. Annie conveys this so clearly in her characters.
JAKs All Time Best Leadership Book Ever Read
Theodore Roosevelt’s Letters to his Children conveys more about what it takes to be a great leader than all of the Covey’s, Maxwell’s, Senge’s, and Druker’s put together. We see the heart of a great leader opened to the responsibility of raising and guiding his children.