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Post by putabuttononit on Nov 7, 2022 9:24:42 GMT
Stolen Lives - unforgettable story
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Post by malibou on Nov 7, 2022 10:30:05 GMT
Anything by Eric Larson.
The History of the World in Six Glasses.
Guns Germs and Steel.
May your wintering lead you to the peaceful way you seek. You will be missed.
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Post by jeremysgirl on Nov 7, 2022 12:53:12 GMT
"Braiding Sweetgrass" by Robin Wall Kimmerer This sounds like a beautiful book. I have added to my goodreads. Jennette McCurdy's memoir "I'm Glad My Mom Died." I have heard nothing but good things about this book, but I just can't seem to get my brain beyond the heartbreaking title. Anything Malcolm Gladwell. His Revisionist History podcast is one of my favorites. Do you know, though, that Malcolm Gladwell is very controversial? I did not realize until recently that some just love him and some intellectual elites just really poo-poo him. Notes On A Banana: a memoir of food, love and manic depression Around the House and in the Garden: a memoir of heartbreak, healing and home improvement Both of these sound good and I've added them to my Goodreads. I also really liked to Storyteller by Dave Grohl (Nirvana, Foo Fighters) but I listen to his music so I’m not sure if it would be as good not being familiar with that…. I loved listening to him narrate this book. Nirvana was part of my youth. I also want to listen to Bono's new book. And I've got it in my mind to buy Bob Dylan's new book too. I'm choking on the $45 price tag, but I've heard it's worth buying. I have added this to my Goodreads. the fabric of civilization.. a well written book about how textiles evolved and shaped history.. really good. Added to Goodreads. Sounds fascinating. Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy: The Story of Little Women and Why It Still Matters by Anne Boyd Rioux How I loved Little Women when I was a girl. I added this one too. A Storm of Witchcraft: The Salem Witch Trials and the American Experience by Emerson W. Baker I'm so interested to read this. This is definitely something I don't know enough about. Come back soon, my fellow non-fiction lover! I feel like we should be friends on Goodreads because we like so much of the same things. But I have no friends and no clue how to add a friend. If you know and want to, PM me. The movie based on the book will be out soon, so you may want to check out “She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story that Helped Ignite a Movement” by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey. On my list for sure. Psychology - Self Help: Healing from toxic relationships, by Stephanie Moulton Sarkis. Now this sounds like something I need in my life. I'm glad to give this one a go. The Unwinding of the Miracle, Julie Yip Williams This sounds like a beautiful book too. Buy Yourself the F*cking Lilies: And Other Rituals to Fix Your Life, from Someone Who's Been There by Tara Schuster "Brutally honest, often hilarious, hard-won lessons in learning to love and care for yourself from a former vice president at Comedy Central who was called “ahead of her time” by Jordan Peele" This sounded like it was right up my alley. Added. Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted Suleika Jaouad (She's the wife of John Batiste, gravely ill with cancer) This one has been on my to read list for a very long time. Maybe it is time. Becki do you like reading actual books or on an e-reader? I always have one actual book going and one audio book going. I like to listen to audio books while I crochet so I have an audible subscription too. A couple of years ago I enjoyed, believe it or not, the name escapes me but the autobiography by Jessica Simpson ... it was good! I have heard good things about this. I just can't seem to get myself beyond how incredibly dense she seems. I know that is horribly judgmental. She just seems so two-dimensional. Maybe I will have to prove to myself that she isn't and challenge my perception. An oldie but a goodie is Feeding the Hungry Heart by Geneen Roth. Really, all of her books are great. She employs mindfulness rather than dieting. This has been on my to read list forever too. I really do need to give it go. We all know how I struggle with my weight. margaret fuller, a new american life. this biography of fuller.. who was a mainstay of the transcendental movement is very very good. I'm about 3/4 the way through. it makes you really rethink emerson and thoreau.. she ran circles around them. she was a brilliant woman who strifed way beyond what society expected of her. This sounds fascinating. There's nothing I love more than a story about a strong woman who upends the patriarchy. Thank you so much for all these recommendations. I looked up every book this morning and added a bunch to my Goodreads list. They should keep me busy.
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Post by tealpaperowl on Nov 7, 2022 14:42:23 GMT
Unseen Angel is a great story, but sad. It's from a Sandy Hook Mom
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Post by maryannscraps on Nov 7, 2022 14:58:37 GMT
I have a few that I liked: Andre Agassi's book,Open: An Autobiography. I don't even like tennis but I loved this book. Great writing. Glennon Doyle's book, Untamed. I wasn't expecting much and didn't know who she was. My daughter recommended it. I'm a huge fan now. Stephen King's book, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft. If you're going to be writing more, you should seriously read this. He's an absolute master.
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Post by jeremysgirl on Nov 7, 2022 15:03:29 GMT
Unseen Angel is a great story, but sad. It's from a Sandy Hook Mom I don't think I'm in the headspace to handle this right now.
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Post by jeremysgirl on Nov 7, 2022 15:06:35 GMT
Glennon Doyle's book, Untamed. I wasn't expecting much and didn't know who she was. My daughter recommended it. I'm a huge fan now. I didn't know who she was either until Brene Brown hosted her on her podcast after she wrote Untamed. I did pick it right up and enjoyed it immensely. I have picked up a lot of good books after Brene Brown has had their authors on. Stephen King's book, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft. If you're going to be writing more, you should seriously read this. He's an absolute master. Ooh, I've just added this one to my Goodreads list too.
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Post by crimsoncat05 on Nov 7, 2022 15:18:51 GMT
I can't remember the names of books I read, other than my old standy fiction favorite authors Jan Karon and Louisa May Alcott, unfortunately. But I am going to be making myself a very large list from this thread!! One book I am slowly working my way through, in bits and pieces, is this one: No Death, No Fear: Comforting Wisdom for Life by Thich Naht Hanh. It was recommended to me after my mother passed away, and the ideas in it are big, but in small pieces it makes sense to me. I do want to re-read Quiet, The Power of Introverts again sometime. and in the category of 'obscure' memoirs, I highly recommend any writings of Sigurd F. Olson... one example is The Singing Wilderness, first published in 1956. He writes about traveling by canoe in the extreme north of Minnesota, in Canada, the Yukon, etc. and his lyrical descriptions of the outdoors are just as good as poetry, to me. Here is one of the Amazon reviews: "Noted conservationist Sigurd F. Olson wrote this collection of essays about his years canoeing, snowshoeing, skiing and fishing the Wilderness areas of Superior National Forest and the Quetico of Canada. The essays are organized according to the four seasons. Olson has an almost metaphysical relationship with the animals that live in the wilderness: red squirrels, loons, otters, even field mice are fellow travelers. Olson canoes and portages scores of miles to listen to the loons sing on Lac La Croix. He searches hundreds of lakes, looking for the perfect wilderness area, unspoiled by civilization. And he finds it! Saganaga, "a symbol of the primitive, perfect and untouched." Later, he hears that a road has come to Saganaga and he ventures back to see what's been done to it. It seems the same until he rounds a bend and is confronted with a modern lodge. He's conflicted; he wants human companionship but he doesn't want to lose his "singing wilderness.""
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Post by kokomo37 on Nov 7, 2022 16:46:43 GMT
Between Two Kingdoms is one of my favourite books .
Katie Couric’s is a enjoyable read
I think you would enjoy Rob Lowe’s . He has two books out
Another good read are the books that Michael J Fox has published
If you like mountain adventures , If I Live to morning is good
Atomic Habits , if you really want to work and change somethings in your life .
I hope you spend some of your time just reading for fun and not all self help. That could be draining .
One last book I am currently listening to on audible is Notorious RBG. I am just starting it but I am already in awe of her determination and motivation and how resilient she is
Happy reading, relaxing and regrouping ! I look forward to spring and your return
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Post by finsup on Nov 7, 2022 16:50:44 GMT
Catching up with everyone’s recommendations and have to second some of them too, including Stephen King’s On Writing, anything by Anne Lamott (she has a book called Help Thanks Wow, a phrase that has become my go-to prayer), and Unwinding of the Miracle. I put off reading that one because I had listened to the podcast, which was beautiful, and thought it would be exactly the same but it wasn’t.
And some more to add: Just Kids by Patti Smith and any of Mary Roach or David Sedaris’s books. Crying in H Mart is wonderful but sad so you may not be in a place for that one.
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Post by scrappinwithoutpeas on Nov 7, 2022 16:58:15 GMT
margaret fuller, a new american life. this biography of fuller.. who was a mainstay of the transcendental movement is very very good. I'm about 3/4 the way through. it makes you really rethink emerson and thoreau.. she ran circles around them. she was a brilliant woman who strifed way beyond what society expected of her. This sounds fascinating. There's nothing I love more than a story about a strong woman who upends the patriarchy. Thank you so much for all these recommendations. I looked up every book this morning and added a bunch to my Goodreads list. They should keep me busy. I also love biographies & memoirs of strong women, and have read quite a few about women throughout history. One that really sticks in my mind is Clementine: The Life of Mrs. Winston Churchill by Sonia Purnell ( link). It really opened my eyes about how influential she was in Winston's life and work (the latter being key). Note that there are several biographies of her, including one written by their daughter Mary Soames. However, the linked one is the only one I've read so I can recommend it personally. I've no doubt there are other good ones.
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Post by psiluvu on Nov 7, 2022 17:01:02 GMT
Unmask Alice: LSD, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World's Most Notorious Diaries by Rick Emerson. I loved this book. I had read Go Ask Alice several times when I was a teen and found this follow up fascinating
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Post by ~summer~ on Nov 7, 2022 17:04:11 GMT
I loved Ann Lamott’s “Bird by Bird”
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Post by jennyap on Nov 7, 2022 17:06:56 GMT
Let Not the Waves of the Sea by Simon Stephenson.
It's a memoir centred around grief, so may not be what you need right now, but it touched me deeply. One quote I saved: “The world changes when you lose somebody you love. Whether or not your loss begins with an earthquake, the planet tilts on its axis and remains there”.
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Post by finsup on Nov 7, 2022 17:09:00 GMT
And I thought of another one since you’re soon to be a grandmother: Nanaville by Anna Quindlen. I read it and loved it before I was a grandmother as I looked at it through the lens of my mom’s relationship with my kids, but I’m going to re-read it now that I’m a Nana myself.
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Post by crimsoncat05 on Nov 7, 2022 17:09:03 GMT
one other book I just remembered, because I love words, and I would sometimes read the dictionary and encyclopedias as a kid... Reading the OED: One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages, by Ammon Lea. A good memoir about his actual experience of reading the OED, with discussions about obscure / interesting words, along the way. eta: thank you to jeremysgirl for asking, and thank you to everyone who is giving suggestions. I do love reading interesting non-fiction, and I'm making a huge list that should keep me (and my public library) set all winter long, lol. eta2: a couple more-- The Big Year: A Tale of Man, Nature, and Fowl Obsession. about three birders who are all on the quest to have a 'big year' and see all of North America's bird species in one year. sort of (?) a memoir, if you like traveling, and cats: A Cat Called Norton: The True Story of an Extraordinary Cat and His Imperfect Human, by Peter Gethers. There are three books altogether, I think- Peter is a writer and was a self professed cat-hater, until his girlfriend gave him a kitten (a Scottish Fold) named Norton. The girlfriend left, but the cat stayed- the books are about his relationship with Norton, and their travels together.
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Post by flanz on Nov 7, 2022 17:27:40 GMT
I can't believe this wasn't the first book to come to mind....
Anne Morrow Lindbergh's Gifts from the Sea. I keep it on my home altar (of sorts). It's been written that every woman should read this book. She did a "wintering" of sorts herself, and writes about it.
one reviewer wrote:
Anne Morrow Lindbergh wrote "Gift from the Sea" while vacationing at a cottage on Florida's Gulf Coast. Her poetic descriptions of the sea and shells draws you into intimate thoughts about life. The words form waves of sentences that have a calming rhythm. As I read I caught a scent memory of salty air and remembered my childhood discovering hermit crabs at the beach. Anne Morrow Lindbergh had incredible powers of poetic description and that makes the book so comforting and beloved.
Through this book we realize that the author is seeking peace with herself. She talks about solitude quite a lot. She also talks about the most exhausting things in life and how living on her own terms creates more sincerity. While she contemplates islands, she also speaks of spiritual isolation and the benefits of going inward.
Like a good treasure hunter, Anne Morrow Lindbergh sees more than the surface of things. She contemplates marriage, friendship and family and decides people need more time to get away and be with themselves.
Had she lived today I have to wonder what her take would be on the Internet. Perhaps she would see now how isolated we all have become. Since the time this book was written the world has changed in unimaginable ways. So it is nice to go back to the past and read what women thought about in the 50s. In some ways that made the book very calming.
I enjoyed this book and think women over 50 will really relate to the topics covered. But it can be read at any age if one is willing to look deeply into life and find its beauty.
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Post by jennyap on Nov 7, 2022 17:38:44 GMT
sort of (?) a memoir, if you like traveling, and cats: A Cat Called Norton: The True Story of an Extraordinary Cat and His Imperfect Human, by Peter Gethers. There are three books altogether, I think- Peter is a writer and was a self professed cat-hater, until his girlfriend gave him a kitten (a Scottish Fold) named Norton. The girlfriend left, but the cat stayed- the books are about his relationship with Norton, and their travels together. That reminds me of another, A Street Cat Named Bob by James Bowen
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Post by crimsoncat05 on Nov 7, 2022 17:50:18 GMT
That reminds me of another, A Street Cat Named Bob by James Bowen will look this one up! I also quite liked D ewey, the Small Town Library Cat who Touched the World. A true story of a cat found in a library book-drop in small-town Iowa who became famous world wide. ( jeremysgirl and others, I know a few of my recommendations aren't quite as 'weighty' as some others recommended, but I like reading about animals. Their pure way of communicating, what animal companionship tells us about ourselves and our feelings... and to be truthful, some days I happen to like most animals more than some/most people, lol.)
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Post by ntsf on Nov 7, 2022 17:52:25 GMT
an oldie but goodie autobiography the road from coorain by conway.. australian woman
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Post by imkat on Nov 7, 2022 18:04:50 GMT
I love non-fiction, especially stories of people overcoming adversity or learning about different places/times.
Just Mercy We Were the Lucky Ones The Other Wes Moore I Am Malala Educated Solito (have not read this yet, but it is next month's bookclub) Devil in the White City Killers of the Flower Moon Boys in the Boat Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City What is the What
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Post by Just T on Nov 7, 2022 18:08:28 GMT
I can't believe this wasn't the first book to come to mind.... Anne Morrow Lindbergh's Gifts from the Sea. I keep it on my home altar (of sorts). It's been written that every woman should read this book. She did a "wintering" of sorts herself, and writes about it. one reviewer wrote: Anne Morrow Lindbergh wrote "Gift from the Sea" while vacationing at a cottage on Florida's Gulf Coast. Her poetic descriptions of the sea and shells draws you into intimate thoughts about life. The words form waves of sentences that have a calming rhythm. As I read I caught a scent memory of salty air and remembered my childhood discovering hermit crabs at the beach. Anne Morrow Lindbergh had incredible powers of poetic description and that makes the book so comforting and beloved. Through this book we realize that the author is seeking peace with herself. She talks about solitude quite a lot. She also talks about the most exhausting things in life and how living on her own terms creates more sincerity. While she contemplates islands, she also speaks of spiritual isolation and the benefits of going inward. Like a good treasure hunter, Anne Morrow Lindbergh sees more than the surface of things. She contemplates marriage, friendship and family and decides people need more time to get away and be with themselves. Had she lived today I have to wonder what her take would be on the Internet. Perhaps she would see now how isolated we all have become. Since the time this book was written the world has changed in unimaginable ways. So it is nice to go back to the past and read what women thought about in the 50s. In some ways that made the book very calming. I enjoyed this book and think women over 50 will really relate to the topics covered. But it can be read at any age if one is willing to look deeply into life and find its beauty. That is one of my favorite books, and I read it every year or so.
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Post by cadoodlebug on Nov 7, 2022 18:14:20 GMT
One of my favorite non-fiction books is Steve Young's QB: My Life Behind the Spiral. Even if you're not a football fan, this is a great read. He suffered from huge bouts of anxiety that he hid very well. I think you would enjoy it. He's my favorite pro quarterback of all time (well, Joe Burrow might take him place!)
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Post by peano on Nov 7, 2022 19:33:29 GMT
I'm going to miss your sensitive, sensible and well-considered input.
I love nonfiction and echo several of the recommendations: Anne Lamott, David Sedaris, Stephen King's book on writing. If you haven't read it, Kay Redfield Jamison's book, An Unquiet Mind, is the story of a medical doctor in training with bipolar disorder.
My favorite memoir is Hold Still by Sally Mann, the art photographer who became famous (and notorious) for shooting nudes of her children in rural Virginia, but has shot other interesting subjects as well, including Civil War sites and body farms (universities use these to study the effect of decomposition of dead bodies), her friendship with the artist Cy Twombly and criminal intrigue with her in-laws. I particularly liked this book because it also touched on the paradoxes of the tradition of black caregivers of children in the South. There's truly something for everyone in this book.
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Post by jeremysgirl on Nov 7, 2022 19:42:23 GMT
If you haven't read it, Kay Redfield Jamison's book, An Unquiet Mind, is the story of a medical doctor in training with bipolar disorder. This book convinced me I needed medicine. I completely saw myself in her.
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Post by craftiejane on Nov 7, 2022 20:05:26 GMT
Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman - I read this after Wintering and found it similarly thought provoking Islands of Abandonment by Cal Flynn - fascinating book about the interaction between nature and abandoned spaces
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Post by SockMonkey on Nov 7, 2022 20:06:28 GMT
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet by John Green is one of the most beautifully written non-fiction books I've ever read. www.johngreenbooks.com/the-anthropocene-reviewed-bookI really can't recommend it enough. Great on audio (listen at 1.2x), great in print.
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Post by flanz on Nov 7, 2022 20:23:10 GMT
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Post by purplebee on Nov 7, 2022 20:37:59 GMT
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet by John Green is one of the most beautifully written non-fiction books I've ever read. www.johngreenbooks.com/the-anthropocene-reviewed-bookI really can't recommend it enough. Great on audio (listen at 1.2x), great in print. I was trying to remember the name of this one to recommend, happy to find it here. I really enjoyed reading this.
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Post by maryannscraps on Nov 7, 2022 21:40:05 GMT
sort of (?) a memoir, if you like traveling, and cats: A Cat Called Norton: The True Story of an Extraordinary Cat and His Imperfect Human, by Peter Gethers. There are three books altogether, I think- Peter is a writer and was a self professed cat-hater, until his girlfriend gave him a kitten (a Scottish Fold) named Norton. The girlfriend left, but the cat stayed- the books are about his relationship with Norton, and their travels together. That reminds me of another, A Street Cat Named Bob by James Bowen There was an awesome movie made of A Street Cat Named Bob. I absolutely loved it.
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