My girlfriend wants me to read a book, I don't really read but soon will be reading a book called: She's Got Issues by Nicole Unice.

http://nicoleunice.com/product/shes-got-issues-book/

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If you have never heard of Bob Proctor or read any of his books then you are truly missing out. That is all I can say. It is absolutely life changing.


“If you know what to do to reach your goal, it's not a big enough goal."
- Bob Proctor

The Alibi by Sandra Brown


It's the first book of her's I've even read. I like her writing style. Even tho I don't normally enjoy mysteries, I'm enjoying this very much!

Rules For a Knight by Ethan Hawke

Welcome To Night Vale by Joseph Fink & Jeffrey Cranor

A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

And I love it. It's the best book I've read in the past year.

'A Little Life' by Hanya Yanagihara

I'm about Half way through and I love it. It's the best book I've read in the past year.

http://A Little Life: A Novel https:..._cYBNwbFAM5FSF

Moving Day by Jonathan Stone. I enjoy Kindle Unlimited!

Anne Rice- The Witching Hour. I found it in Goodwill for a quarter. I read it years ago but don't honestly remember too much.

I'm reading a thriller called The Cloud Collector, by Brian Freemantle. I'm enjoying it.

I'm re-reding The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins because it's soon to be released as a movie staring Emily Blunt! The movie's location will be Manhattan while the book's was London. I'm not sure what to expect!

"Excuse Me Your Life Is Waiting"- Lynn Crabhorn. I have read many life coaches, but she was one of the best. I say was, because she committed suicide while battling cancer. She firmly believed in the power of positive feeling and thinking, mental and emotional cause and affect, visualization, and magnetism. It still remains a mystery as to why she committed suicide. Dale Carnegie, also was one of the best life coaches in the world, and he also committed suicide while battling an illness.

Last week:
The is How (Burroughs)
Axis (Wilson)
Armada (Cline)
Still Alice (Genova)
The Aviator's Wife (Benjamin)
The "Captive Prince" trilogy (Pacat)

in progress:
Voyage of the Narwhal (Barret)
The Water Knife (Bacigalupi)

Bettyville

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People in my reading group swapped books this week.
I was lucky to be in on a trade for the book, Bettyville, which was a New York Times best seller, last year. I plan to read it over the weekend.

Stephen King- The Four Seasons- 4 Novella set -1982. Stephen King's books make me crazy, yet are so addicting.

I'm reading another great schlocky novel by James Michener (1907-1997), "Poland" (1983).

Michener's novels include Tales of the South Pacific, Hawaii, The Drifters, Centennial, The Source, The Fires of Spring, Chesapeake, Caribbean, Caravans, Alaska, Texas and Poland. His non-fiction works include Iberia, about his travels in Spain and Portugal.

His first book was adapted as the popular Broadway musical South Pacific by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein.

The guy wrote some 40 novels/books, almost all based in sweeping historical research and full of manifest destiny, which is always fun.

Thankfully I wont list them all here but:

I did learned about "the missionary position" from "Hawaii"; all about why everyone wants pieces of Israel from "The Source"; and I can still sing all the words to "Gonna Wash That Man Right Out of My Hair" from South Pacific.

Maria Konnikova's "The Confidence Game"
It is about the psychology of the con.
Fascinating and filled with handy tips that work really well in business.

I very recently finished Anne of Green Gables. I can't believe I've never read these books before... damn my preconceived notions!

I've started Anne of Avonlea, but put it on hold yesterday when I realized that Morning Star was out, the third (and last) in the Red Rising series by Pierce Brown.

I'll be stepping back in Anne's world by the weekend, I'm sure!

Currently reading: "We Gotta Get Out of This Place - The Soundtrack to the Vietnan War", "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", and "Star Wars: Annihilation".

I think I'm all over the genre spectrum.

Depraved Heart
 

Patricia Cornwall"s Latest!- Scarpetta Series.- A must read for fans! Scarpetta's butch niece Lucy, is still being stalked by her psycho ex Carrie, who has been trying to murder her. This novel is all about them. Of course, Patricia dedicated this one to her partner Staci again. She looked too thin on her jacket photo though. I hope she is well.

The Light of the World, (Ellen Simpson)

After her grandmother’s death, Eva finds a series of diaries detailing the life of a girl caught up in the magic of the Roaring Twenties. She cannot reconcile the young woman in these diaries with the miserable old woman she loved so fiercely. What happened to change her grandmother so drastically? Eva is desperate to know more about this period in her grandmother’s life.

I'm enjoying this book even tho it started out with a funeral and flashbacks to a suicide attempt by Eva.

I'm reading Room by Emma Donohue

I saw the preview for the movie and thought I should read the book. Its an incredible read. I really can't put it down. You literally feel the full spectrum of emotions...I'm laughing I'm sobbing Im really glad I'm reading it alone in my own Room....

See how I did that?? ;)

I watched the movie last night! it kind of loses something as the voice of Jack is not so dominant

I am actually reading the "Fifty Shades" trilogy. Only five years late on that one

The writing is really bad--intrusively so-- but I am still into it

I'm not all the way done with Room yet but almost...

But today I got an amazing book called Me, Myself and Why: searching for the science of self.

It seemed SO interesting that I read the forward...which I rarely do...

Its basically a look into what makes us US...it does a comparative of nature vs nurture which is a fascinating subject for my former psych major brain...

I can NOT wait to dive in head first....I'm super nerdy that way and I accept it :)

A Fighting Chance by Elizabeth Warren
 

An unlikely political star tells the inspiring story of the two-decade journey that taught her how Washington really works—and really doesn't.

As a child in small-town Oklahoma, Elizabeth Warren yearned to go to college and then become an elementary school teacher—an ambitious goal, given her family's modest means.

Early marriage and motherhood seemed to put even that dream out of reach, but fifteen years later she was a distinguished law professor with a deep understanding of why people go bankrupt.

Then came the phone call that changed her life: could she come to Washington DC to help advise Congress on rewriting the bankruptcy laws? Thus began an impolite education into the bare-knuckled, often dysfunctional ways of Washington.

She fought for better bankruptcy laws for ten years and lost. She tried to hold the federal government accountable during the financial crisis but became a target of the big banks. She came up with the idea for a new agency designed to protect consumers from predatory bankers and was denied the opportunity to run it.

Finally, at age 62, she decided to run for elective office and won the most competitive—and watched—Senate race in the country. In this passionate, funny, rabble-rousing book, Warren shows why she has chosen to fight tooth and nail for the middle class—and why she has become a hero to all those who believe that America's government can and must do better for working families.

....next up......
 

Dark Money : The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right / Jane Mayer.

The investors -- Weaponizing philanthropy : the war on ideas, 1970-2008. Radicals : a Koch family history ; The hidden hand : Richard Mellon Scaife ; Beachheads : John M. Olin and the Bradley brothers ; The Koch method : free-market mayhem ; The Kochtopus : free-market machine -- Secret sponsors : covert operations, 2009-2010. Boots on the ground ; Tea time ; The fossils ; Money is speech : the long road to "Citizens United" ; The shellacking : dark money's midterm debut, 2010 -- Privatizing politics : total combat, 2011-2014. The spoils : plundering Congress ; Mother of all wars : the 2012 setback ; The States : gaining ground ; Selling the new Koch : a better battle plan.

Lord of the Rings
H is for Hawk
The 40 Rules of Love

Essential of Human Anatomy & Physiology. Fun stuff.

Mary Baker Eddy by Gillian Gill

Messengers of the Wind Native Native American Women Tell Their Life Stories by Jane Katz

Slaves in the Family by Edward Ball

I have a few going at the moment...

Rebel of the Sands by Alwyn Hamilton

Jonathon Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke

Star Wars Battlefront: Twilight Company by Alexander Freed

The Hollow Boy by Jonathon Stroud

The Courage to Try by C.A. Popovich

The Knife by Ross Ritchell

I'm pretty good into a book called Neverhome by Laird Hunt.

Its a fictional account of a woman who disguises herself as a man so that she can fight in the American Civil War. So far so good

I'm reading Etta and Otto and Russell and James by Emma Hooper- loving it

Eighty-three-year-old Etta has never seen the ocean. So early one morning she takes a rifle, some chocolate, and her best boots and begins walking the 3,232 kilometers from rural Saskatchewan, Canada eastward to the sea. As Etta walks further toward the crashing waves, the lines among memory, illusion, and reality blur.

Otto wakes to a note left on the kitchen table. “I will try to remember to come back,” Etta writes to her husband. Otto has seen the ocean, having crossed the Atlantic years ago to fight in a far-away war. He understands. But with Etta gone, the memories come crowding in and Otto struggles to keep them at bay. Meanwhile, their neighbor Russell has spent his whole life trying to keep up with Otto and loving Etta from afar. Russell insists on finding Etta, wherever she’s gone. Leaving his own farm will be the first act of defiance in his life.
- See more at: http://books.simonandschuster.com/Et....ykP5ak0y.dpuf

I am reading the Southern Reach Trilogy (Annihilation, Authority, and Acceptance) by Jeff VanDerMeer

Talking with Angels
 

I am currently reading:
Title of book: Talking with Angels - Budaliget 1943
Author: Gitta Mallasz

Synopsis:"Four young people in search of inner meaning at a time of outer upheaval,
encountered luminous forces that helped them find new direction and hope in their shattered lives.
These forces, which came to be known as angels, accompanied the four friends for seventeen perilous months,
before three of them met their deaths in a Nazi concentration camp.
Only Gitta Mallasz survived to bring their story and these remarkable dialogues to the world..."

Several friends of mine were recently diagnosed with oral cancer. Back in the day, not all that long ago, my friends use to gargle with Listerene mouthwash practically more times a day than eating three sit down meals a day (or more). Same for brushing their teeth. Of course, back then, we didn't have too many brands of tooth paste to choose from. I remember the standard types by Colgate or Crest or new dazzling brands of Close-up or Ultrabrite.

Anyway, it turns out that what we put in our mouth can be dangerous, if not slowly fatal.

So...., I've been reading medical journal articles on cancer causing agents in toothpaste and mouthwash.

I am primarily reading articles about scientific findings concerning Oral Oncology from the website link, below:

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/13688375

I am reading the Silmarillion by Tolkien yet again because I am getting ready to read LOTR yet again

A friend of mine flagged (liked ) an post today on f.b., an post by Michelle Alexander.

I also recently read an article that she wrote for The Nation (Why Hillary Doesn't Deserve The Black Vote, February 10, 2016), so I followed up by reading posts on her f.b.page. It turns out to be that Michele Alexander is an associate professor of law at Ohio State, received her law degree from Stanford Law School, was director for the Racial Justice Project for the ACLU in Northern California, served in other roles for other Supreme court justices, as well as authoring an non-fiction book on racial injustice, titled:

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration In The Age of Colorblindness (The New Press, 2010).

As soon as I can order an copy of her book, I plan to read what she has to say because Alexander takes an strong stand on how policy drawn during the Clinton years is strongly connected to the disenfranchisement of millions of African Americans and other people of color.

The Bazaar of Bad Dreams
Stephen King

Stephen has delivered a generous collection of stories, several of them brand-new, featuring revelatory autobiographical comments on when, why, and how he came to write (or rewrite) each story.

Magnificent, eerie, utterly compelling, these stories comprise one of Stephen's finest gifts to the constant reader—“I made them especially for you,” says King. “Feel free to examine them, but please be careful. The best of them have teeth.”

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"Lying on the Couch" by Yalom

Good one...Greco