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Monday Recommendation List

Random list of 10 books Monday! I have read and enjoyed each of these enough to flag for a potential personal library purchase.

Be bold and just choose randomly, stick to your normal genre...or step outside of your normal reading zone and try something you usually wouldn’t. You can look up the descriptions at Amazon.com, or search my blog for old posts by entering the title in the little search box in the top left-hand corner and clicking the magnifying glass.

This week-- 10 recommendations (in no particular order):

1. Love Wins by Rob Bell
2. The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
3. Handle With Care by Jodi Picoult
4. Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
5. Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
6. Every Last One by Anna Quindlen
7. Being Peace by Thich Nhat Hanh
8. This Is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper
9. Shelter Me by Juliette Fay
10. Man’s Search For Meaning by Viktor Frankl

Monday Recommendations

Monday Recommendation List

Random list of 10 books Monday! I have read and enjoyed each of these enough to flag for a potential personal library purchase.

Be bold and just choose randomly, stick to your normal genre...or step outside of your normal reading zone and try something you usually wouldn’t. You can look up the descriptions at Amazon.com, or search my blog for old posts by entering the title in the little search box in the top left-hand corner and clicking the magnifying glass.

This week-- 10 recommendations (in no particular order):

1. Love Me to Death by Allison Brennan
2. Husband and Wife by Leah Stewart
3. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman
4. Sister Queens by Julia Fox
5. The Art of Happiness  by Dalai Lama XIV
6. Bhagavadgita
7. Dark of the Moon by John Sandford
8. The Heart of Buddha’s Teaching by Thich Nhat Hanh
9. Being In Balance by Wayne Dyer
10. All I Ever Wanted by Kristan Higgins

Peace is Every Step

Peace is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life  by Thich Nhat Hahn

My rating (out of 5 stars):

3 stars—I liked it.

Description from Goodreads.com:

“In the rush of modern life, we tend to lose touch with the peace that is available in each moment. World-renowned Zen master, spiritual leader, and author Thich Nhat Hanh shows us how to make positive use of the very situations that usually pressure and antagonize us. For him a ringing telephone can be a signal to call us back to our true selves. Dirty dishes, red lights, and traffic jams are spiritual friends on the path to "mindfulness"—the process of keeping our consciousness alive to our present experience and reality. The most profound satisfactions, the deepest feelings of joy and completeness lie as close at hand as our next aware breath and the smile we can form right now.

Lucidly and beautifully written, Peace Is Every Step contains commentaries and meditations, personal anecdotes and stories from Nhat Hanh's experiences as a peace activist, teacher, and community leader. It begins where the reader already is—in the kitchen, office, driving a car, walking a part—and shows how deep meditative presence is available now. Nhat Hanh provides exercises to increase our awareness of our own body and mind through conscious breathing, which can bring immediate joy and peace. Nhat Hanh also shows how to be aware of relationships with others and of the world around us, its beauty and also its pollution and injustices. the deceptively simple practices of Peace Is Every Step encourage the reader to work for peace in the world as he or she continues to work on sustaining inner peace by turning the "mindless" into the mindFUL.”

My Thoughts:

I admire Thich Nhat Hahn. This book, just as his others, is filled with thought provoking simplicity. Good reminders for how I want to live my life.  

Monday Recommendations

Monday Recommendation List

Random list of 10 books Monday! I have read and enjoyed each of these enough to flag for a potential personal library purchase.

Be bold and just choose randomly, stick to your normal genre...or step outside of your normal zone and try something you usually wouldn’t. You can look up the descriptions at Amazon.com, or search my blog for old posts by entering the title in the little search box in the top left-hand corner and clicking the magnifying glass.

This week-- 10 recommendations (in no particular order):

1. Being Peace by Thich Nhat Hanh
2. The Hathaway Series (starts with Mine ‘Til Midnight) by Lisa Kleypas
3. Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho
4. The Latehomecomer  by Kao Kalia Yang
5. Having It All  by John Assaraf
6. The Hot Zone by Richard Preston
7. The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
8. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
9. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
10. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

Monday Recommendations

Monday Recommendation List

Random list of 10 books Monday! I have read and enjoyed each of these enough to flag for a potential personal library purchase.

Be bold and just choose randomly, stick to your normal genre...or step outside of your normal reading zone and try something you usually wouldn’t. You can look up the descriptions at Amazon.com, or search my blog for old posts by entering the title in the little search box in the top left-hand corner and clicking the magnifying glass.

This week-- 10 recommendations (in no particular order):

1. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
2. Mistress of Mellyn by Victoria Holt
3. The Heart of Buddha’s Teaching by Thich Nhat Hanh
4. Soul Surfer by Bethany Hamilton
5. The Blue Zone by Andrew Gross
6. Possessing the Secret of Joy by Alice Walker
7. Sweet Return by Anna Jeffrey
8. Traveling Light by Katrina Kittle
9. Eat This, Not That by David Zinczenko
10. The Red Tent by Anita Diamant