Interview with Eleanor Tucker, author of Thanks for Sharing: How I Gave Up Buying and Embraced Borrowing, Swapping and Renting
Eleanor Tucker, author of Thanks for Sharing: How I Gave Up Buying and Embraced Borrowing, Swapping and Renting recommends a beautiful bounty of books! Before jumping into the interview, please check out Eleanor's book:
Review from Book Depository:
In this fascinating book, Eleanor Tucker sets out a bold vision of how sustainable sharing can save us money, and lead to a happier future.
What is the Sharing Economy? How can it help us live more affordable, more sustainable, and ultimately more fulfilling lives? What would happen if for one year a family pledged to share as much as they possibly can? Instead ofowning more and more stuff, what it's like to stop owning things and borrow, lend, rent and swap instead?
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Thanks for Sharing: How I Gave Up Buying and Embraced Borrowing, Swapping and Renting
These are big questions, but features writer Eleanor Tucker sets out to answer them in this thoroughly absorbing and entertaining guide to sustainable sharing, or as it is also known, 'collaborative consumption'.
In this engrossing study, Eleanor straps us into on her year-long experiment along with her somewhat reluctant family. Over the course of the year, with the aid of various sharing apps, they will pledge to buy as few new things as possible, instead relying on the power of sharing, lending, renting and borrowing to supply their needs.
Each chapter introduces a different type of sharing into her day to day life, from the little 'things' (food, clothes) to the bigger 'things' (cars, furniture, the space around us), and shows how the growth of tech has revolutionized an age-old practice.
The book contains best-for recommendations based around different types of sharing, to create an easily accessible shortcut into sharing.
Written with warm and relatable humour as well as a deeply-researched knowledge of the history of sharing, this unmissable guide could truly change the way you consume.
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Q. Do you have a favourite smart thinking book (and why that book)?
Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain by David Eagleman is so fascinating. It really changed the way I think about human nature and why we make the decisions we do. He describes the human brain as a ‘wet computer’, so sophisticated humans couldn’t get even close to creating anything like it. That, ironically, blew my mind.
Review From Book Depository
In this sparkling and provocative book, renowned neuroscientist David Eagleman navigates the depths of the subconscious brain. Taking in brain damage, plane spotting, dating, drugs, beauty, infidelity, synaesthesia, criminal law, artificial intelligence and visual illusions, INCOGNITO is a thrilling subsurface exploration of the mind and all its contradictions.
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Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain
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Q. What's the most recent smart thinking book you've read (and how would you rate it)?
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by Carlo Rovelli. It admittedly sounds quite ‘weighty’ but the way that it’s written makes it accessible to even the least ‘sciencey’ of us. It’s so full of wonder and awe about what scientists have discovered – and indeed all the things they haven’t discovered… yet.
Review From Book Depository:
This playful, entertaining, and mind-bending introduction to modern physics briskly explains Einstein's general relativity, quantum mechanics, elementary particles, gravity, black holes, the complex architecture of the universe, and the role humans play in this weird and wonderful world. Carlo Rovelli, a renowned theoretical physicist, is a delightfully poetic and philosophical scientific guide. He takes us to the frontiers of our knowledge: to the most minute reaches of the fabric of space, back to the origins of the cosmos, and into the workings of our minds. The book celebrates the joy of discovery. "Here, on the edge of what we know, in contact with the ocean of the unknown, shines the mystery and the beauty of the world," Rovelli writes. "And it's breathtaking."
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Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
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Q. Do you have a favourite childhood book?
The Wind on The Moon by Eric Linklater. It features two sisters, Dinah and Dorinda, who go off on an adventure to rescue their father from prison. I remember it being quite odd, but hugely entertaining, and anything featuring two sisters went down well with me as I was one of two girls too. I was also captivated by the cover which showed Dinah and Dorinda in their pyjamas with the puma that I think they helped escape from a zoo. It all seemed very daring.
Review From Book Depository:
When the wind on the moon blew straight into Dinah and Dorinda's hearts it meant that they couldn't help but behave badly for a whole year. Transformed into kangaroos,they terrorise the sleepy town of Midmeddlecum with glee. But what they didn't count on was being locked in a zoo. Things get even stickier for the mischievous sisters when they learn their father has been imprisoned in a dungeon by Count Hulagu Bloot, the tyrant of Bombardy. Their poor father! Can they rescue him in time?
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The Wind on the Moon
Includes exclusive material: In the Backstory you can find out what life was like when this book was written and meet some more naughty children!
Vintage Children's Classics is a twenty-first century classics list aimed at 8-12 year olds and the adults in their lives. Discover timeless favourites from The Jungle Book and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland to modern classics such as The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.
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Q. Do you prefer reading on paper, Kindle or listening to an audiobook?
I’ve never read a Kindle book, I’m very much in favour of a nice papery page. In fact I like to give a book a good sniff before I start it. I don’t think you can do that with an ebook.
Q. Do you have a favourite bookshop (and why that shop)?
Blackwell’s in Oxford, without hesitation. It’s been a huge part of my life: my father worked for the company a long time ago; I met my best friend Fiona while we were both working in the Children’s Bookshop (now a department of the main store); and now as an adult I take my children there and they love it too. It feels like home – I know that sounds strange, but it really does.
Many thanks to Eleanor for recommending a beautiful bounty of books! Please don't forget to check out Thanks for Sharing: How I Gave Up Buying and Embraced Borrowing, Swapping and Renting.
Daryl
Image Copyrights: Aurum Press (Thanks For Sharing), Canongate Books (Incognito), Penguin Books Ltd (Seven Brief Lessons On Physics), Vintage Publishing (The Wind On The Moon)
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