More thoughts on more books I’ve read recently! I’ve started on some of your recommendations from last month and LOVE everything you’ve suggested so far. Keep them coming! My to-read list is my motivation to keep existing. Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens This is Reese Witherspoon’s book club selection. Did you know Reese… Read More »
I have a lot of beautiful people staring at me from my desk this month. They’re all books designed to motivate and educate on fitness. If I’m honest, I’m rather sick of self help books and it seems my reading list is brimming with mostly those. Any suggestions for good fiction thrillers? Or memoirs? Maybe… Read More »
The Mist by Stephen King This is an old Stephen King book about one misty afternoon when giant octopi, spiders, bugs and birds appear out of…the mist. We start with a town full of people and end with only a car-full of people, driving down the eastern seaboard of the United States trying to stay… Read More »
An American Marriage: A Novel by Tayari Jones I picked this book up because I’m going on a cruise in March and there is a book club on the cruise and this was the club’s selection, so of course I ordered it from the library and read it before going. It’s an Oprah book club… Read More »
Three to get married by Fulton J. Sheen A play about three daughters getting married. A comedy, I think. Their father is a priest and marries them off quickly and rather absurdly. I don’t read many plays. This one doesn’t convince me to try more. I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the… Read More »
Nanowrimo is over. How’d you do? I wrote 28,000 words, which is not an entire book, but it’s more than half a book and I’m going to keep writing until I create something I don’t hate. Fiction is hard. Papillon by Henri Charriere Autobiography of a French guy sent to prison on the northern coast of South… Read More »
The Richest Man in Babylon by George S. Clason So boring. Spend less than you earn. Invest the difference. Learn to money. Blah blah blah. You know all this stuff already. The writing was painful and I don’t understand why everyone likes this book. Invisible Countries: Journeys to the Edge of Nationhood by Joshua Keating The author… Read More »
Ever notice that you can fly through a 500-page fiction novel in two days, but it can take over a month to read a 200-page nonfiction novel? Fiction is easy because you don’t take a lot of notes and can just enjoy the story. Maybe that approach is why I can’t write fiction. Thanks for… Read More »
Book reviews! Conscious Loving: The Journey to Co-Commitment by Gay Hendricks and Kathlyn Hendricks This book explains how to have a happy, healthy relationship with yourself and others. The authors explain that co-dependency is bad, but co-commitment (a word they just made up) is good. People in a codependent relationship limit each other’s potential by helping… Read More »
Do you see the world as a prison or a playground? If you answered prison, I have a book for you to check out. Michael Pollan just explored the history and the science and the experience of using certain chemicals found in mushrooms and ergot to reset your brain. Go read it. I’ll wait. It’s called How to Change… Read More »