g7s22 Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 I am really enjoying this thread since I prefer non-fiction. Reading with the library open in another tab. Immediately placed a hold on $64 tomato since that really resonates with me :sad: I will second (third?) the Animal, Vegetable Miracle and add anything by Michael Pollan, Nina Planck or Joel Salatin Lost on Planet China by J. Maarten Troost The One World Schoolhouse by Salman Khan One Year Off by David Elliot Cohen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LucyStoner Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 Radical Homemakers by Shannon Hayes is interesting. Today I started reading Homeward Bound by Emily Matchar. It's not too annoying. I will finish it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kubiac Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 Another vote for all three of these mentioned above: Baby Catcher by Peggy Vincent, Next of Kin: My Conversations with Chimpanzees by Roger Fouts, and The Power of Habit. Habit has stuck with me for quite a while. Bits of it emerge in my thoughts constantly. Baby Catcher made me understand birth in a way that nothing else did. Next of Kin is startling and perspective changing. (For a bonus good time, chase it down with a watch of the recent Rise of the Planet of the Apes.) The Millionaire Next Door > I reread this every two years or so. More than any other books, it reminds me of the power of simplicity, radical contentment and personal responsibility. The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog by Bruce Perry > The subtitle of this book is “what traumatized children can teach us about loss, love and healing†and as such, it is quite a grim read, but Bruce Perry is masterful at explaining how trauma changes the brain, and by extension, how love and peace can nourish it. When I finished this book I was left with new clarity about the nature of the human condition. Becoming Attached by Robert Karen > This is a history of attachment theory research in fields of psychology and social science. I started in the middle, read to the end and then came back again. We had done some attachment parenting practices because Dr. Sears told us to LOL, but this book is totally not about practice, it’s about everything else. Again, so much clarity after reading this, and quite well-written and fascinating! Onions in the Stew by Betty MacDonald > ABSOLUTELY. THE. BEST. It’s a memoir of her life with her teenage daughters and second husband on Vashon Island, Washington. Funny and wise and perfect and this is another one I re-read on the regular. (She is the author of the Miss Piggle-Wiggle books for children, and The Egg and I, another memoir, which became a Claudette Colbert movie and then was spun off into about a million Ma and Pa Kettle pictures.) Among Friends by MFK Fisher > Memoir of her childhood in Whittier, CA. Pretty great. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LibraryLover Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 One Year Off by David Elliot Cohen I so enjoyed this book. I read the parents divorced not long after. That made me sad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kareni Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 A couple of non-fiction titles I've enjoyed: Quirkology: How We Discover the Big Truths in Small Things by Richard Wiseman Bill Bryson's The Mother Tongue - English And How It Got That Way One of my husband's favorite is Tolle's The Power of Now. Another is Your Money or Your Life: 9 Steps to Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Achieving Financial Independence by Vicki Robin and Joe Dominguez. An older thread you might enjoy reading: Life changing, awesome book suggestions, please! Regards, Kareni Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kareni Posted January 6, 2014 Share Posted January 6, 2014 One more older non-fiction/memoir recommendation is Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Adventures of a Curious Character) by Richard P. Feynman and others. Regards, Kareni Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mom-ninja. Posted January 6, 2014 Share Posted January 6, 2014 Scammed by Statistics by Zacarro. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
helena Posted January 6, 2014 Share Posted January 6, 2014 I'm reading The Hot Zone by Richard Preston and I feel like I'll never be the same again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kbutton Posted January 6, 2014 Share Posted January 6, 2014 I can't think of too many--I tend to listen to non-fiction rather than read it, and the selection of audio non-fiction at our library is limited. I appreciate having some titles to request via interlibrary loan! River Town was good; I'll second that. I LOVED David McCullough's bio of John Adams Someone mentioned The Hot Zone. I loved that book, but I nearly had to pull my car over to the side of road and puke during the first gory description or two. You've been warned! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 7, 2014 Share Posted January 7, 2014 Blind Descent: The Quest to Discover the Deepest Place on Earth by James Tabor I thought I was the only one who had read this, lol. Loved it, too! A few from my Goodreads lists that I really have enjoyed: Unbroken - mentioned by so many others I just finished One Thousand Gifts by Ann Voskamp and loved it. Grace for the Good Girl by Emily Freeman Kisses from Katie by Katie Davis Three Week With My Brother by Nicholas Sparks (and I don't care for Sparks as a fiction writer) The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson Moonwalking with Einstein by Joshua Foer Time Bandit by the Hillstrand Brothers (dh watches Deadliest Catch, I found this interesting) Sex on the Moon by Ben Mezrich Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tadah Posted January 7, 2014 Share Posted January 7, 2014 Here are a few more good ones I haven't seen mentioned yet: Whistling Vivaldi The Boys in the Boat Unequal Childhoods (2nd edition) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Posted January 7, 2014 Share Posted January 7, 2014 I'm reading The Hot Zone by Richard Preston and I feel like I'll never be the same again. I read this years ago...and some of the descriptions are still very vivid in my head. Powerful. Especially the epilogue. I cannot imagine going to that cave. After you are done, rewatch Outbreak. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
helena Posted January 7, 2014 Share Posted January 7, 2014 I read this years ago...and some of the descriptions are still very vivid in my head. Powerful. Especially the epilogue. I cannot imagine going to that cave. After you are done, rewatch Outbreak. :) Funny you should say that! I went to the library to pick up Contagion and the librarian insisted I give this book a read. :) I'm going to go on a deadly virus movie marathon when I'm done. :) This book is on a whole other level though... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MomtoCandJ Posted January 11, 2014 Share Posted January 11, 2014 Can anyone please lend me any of these books on Nook? I need new reading material and out of book money. Please PM me if so. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 11, 2014 Share Posted January 11, 2014 I'm reading Power of Habit now, thanks to this thread and...wow. That stuff about Target has got me totally creeped. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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