books

I like to keep track of the books I have read. The good ones have so much power to change me. To change my thoughts and my heart. To take me to different worlds that teach me and help me grow. (My list from 2019 is HERE. And also there…

I mentioned back HERE that Dave has some great books he’s read for his classes at Thunderbird that pulled me in to read them too. Atomic Habits is one, but this What Got You Here Won’t Get You There was so good as well: It is filled up with so…

What would it be like to have all our life choices to make over again? Would we choose a completely different path? Would we stick with what we’ve got? That was the premise of the book we read last for book club: The Midnight Library. And although it gathered mixed…

I am so very grateful for the blog reader who shared this book recommendation with me: I don’t know if it would hold the same value to everyone else, but to me, it was priceless. (lots of reviews HERE) It was such a beautiful memoir of a woman who didn’t…

This book (Atomic Habits) has consumed so much of what I’ve been thinking lately: Because boy howdy, it is good. I think it’s one I should read at least semi-annually to get me all pumped up about life. I could go on and on about so many notes I took…I…

Lu and I finished our book (An Old Fashioned Girl) last week and we both loved that thing. (It’s one of Louisa May Alcott’s lesser-known books.) I love books that just teach goodness. And sensibility. And grit. And, of course, the heroine in this one exhibited all three quite beautifully.…

There are lots of things to be sad about with this corona thing, but a serious silver lining over here is sisters. Oh man do I ever love these lovely ladies. One of my favorite things during this whole quarantine has been listening/watching them hype Lucy up about Harry Potter.…

When I took my class on Grace last semester, one thing, among the thousands, that hit me was that our teacher (a therapist) explained that everyone has two basic emotional needs: 1) to be ok, and 2) to know that they matter. Isn’t it the most beautiful form of human…

One of my goals last year was to read at least two new books each month. And I’m pretty happy that I DID IT, even with an extra one to make it 25! Ok, I actually listened to most of them (Audible rocks!), but hey, sometimes you have to cling…

I have had this idea of the beauty of messiness rambling around in my thoughts lately. I was intrigued by early America described in the book I talked about back HERE (The Prosperity Paradox), and then again the early America described in Ron Chernow’s Alexander Hamilton (still going on that…