Sunday, October 30, 2022

Some books I recommended to a book group

Some books I recommended to a book group:

  1. Starry Messenger by Neil DeGrasse Tyson - written by an active author and astronomer.  Views of our lives today

  2. Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell - a novel about the life of Shakespeare

  3. Incognito by David Eagleman - a mind is limited and the conscious brain is only one part

  4. Seven and a Half Lessons About Your Brain by Lisa Feldman Barret - your brain does far more than allow you to think

  5. Beloved by Toni Morrison - a novel about slavery in the American South

  6. Finding Nouf by Zoe Ferraris - a murder mystery about life in Arab lands, especially women's lives

  7. Radical Acceptance by Tara Brach - Brach is a teacher and philosopher of acceptance of life's gifts and challenges

  8. A Place for Everything by Judith Flanders - a history of alphabetical order.  How can alphabetical order have a history?

  9. Breath by Breath by Larry Rosenberg - breath can take you to joy, calm and acceptance of what comes

  10. Dead Frenzy by Victoria Houston - Houston is a Wisconsin author who has written novels about a small Wisconsin town

  11. All I Really Need to Know, I Learned in Kindergarten by Robert Fulghum - one view of the basics.

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