Thursday, September 12, 2013

Book Review: What's Your Mark by Jeremy Coward



I enjoyed reading this book.  It is a short, encouraging read.  It challenges you to look at yourself and see what kind of mark you are leaving.  It was interesting to read about the different ways the people highlighted in the book have put their mark on the world.  There were a couple stories that gave me ideas, if not something new, something that I could support. 

One of my favorite sections of the book was about Shaun King the founder of HopeMob.  HopeMob gets individual stories and needs out to the public so people can lend a helping hand.  Another of my favorites was about Caitlin Crosby and the Giving Keys.  The Giving Keys is a jewelry line that has an encouraging word printed on it.  Once you buy a piece of jewelry though, you don’t keep it forever – you give it away to someone who needs that word of encouragement.  The line employs homeless people who are trying to make it in the world. 

In addition to reading about how others are making a mark, the Book of Mark is interspersed between the pages of the individual stories.  All in all, an encouraging, challenging, fun read.

*I received a free copy of this book from BookSneeze exchange for writing a fair review.*