Not having a camera this past week has really affected my ability to post anything terribly interesting. I have several things I’d love to share with you all but alas; it would be tasteless and flat without pictures. I mean who wants to read a blog without pictures!? That’s like shopping on E bay without seeing pics of the product. Don’t you just hate that!?
In desperation I thought I would share a sampling of the books I bought on my birthday trip 2 weeks ago. I certainly managed to bring home quite a few titles and yet felt deprived that I painfully passed up on so many more. Perhaps they will still be there on my next trip down to our lovely used bookstore.
1. The first book I’ll mention is The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. Any book with such an interesting title needed to go home with me. I’ve yet to read this book but here’s what Barnes and Noble had to say about it:
“… recounts the case histories of patients lost in the bizarre, apparently inescapable world of neurological disorders…tells the stories of individuals afflicted with fantastic perceptual and intellectual aberrations: patients who have lost their memories and with them the greater part of their pasts; who are no longer able to recognize people and common objects; who are stricken with violent tics and grimaces or who shout involuntary obscenities; whose limbs have become alien; who have been dismissed as retarded yet are gifted with uncanny artistic or mathematical talents.
If inconceivably strange, these brilliant tales remain, in Dr. Sacks’s splendid and sympathetic telling, deeply human. They are studies of life struggling against incredible adversity, and they enable us to enter the world of the neurologically impaired, to imagine with our hearts what it must be to live and feel as they do.”
2. Don’t Eat This Book, Morgan Spurlock. The girl at the bookstore threatened to come home with me if I didn’t buy this book (NOT a good thing!) so I had to add this book to my growing pile. I read Fast Food Nation (well, most of it :S) and this seems to be about the same idea. Some of you may remember Morgan Spurlock as the fella that ate nothing but McDonalds for every meal for 30 days in the documentary “Super Size Me.” This book delves into WHY the fast food industry is so tasty & cheap and oh so very bad for you!
3. The Hundred Year Lie, How to Protect Yourself from the Chemicals That Are Destroying Your Health. I am very excited about reading this book! Randall Fitzgerald “warns how thousands of man-made chemicals in our food, water, medicine, and environment are making humans the most polluted species on the planet…he also presents informed and practical suggestions for what we can do to turn the tide and live healthier lives.”
4. Obviously had to pick up this book by Sally Fallon. Eat Fat Lose Fat. While I don’t intend to go on this as a “diet” It is chock full of information on why we need the good fats in our diet.
5. I actually received Whole Grain Breads as a birthday present. (Thank you Pam!) I have looked through and read quite a bit in this book. It is very detailed and gives you ALL the ins and outs of baking whole wheat bread, the science behind preparing and baking with whole grains. I may be elderly before I can appreciate all the knowledge in this book! But the wonderful pictures I can enjoy now in my youth!
6. What The Bible Says About Healthy Living, Rex Russell, MD. I am excited about this book most of all because so far it is right in line with the way we already believe is the “right” way to eat. There IS a right and a wrong way to eat and shouldn’t we as Christians be concerned with what the Bible has to say about our eating habits? Dr. Russell uses 3 practical principles to help one improve their physical and spiritual health. Those 3 principles are :
· Eat only substances God created for food. Avoid what is not designed for food.
· As much as possible, eat foods as they were created-before they are changed or converted into something humans think might be better
· Avoid food addiction. Don’t let any food or drink become you God.
7. Grandma Putt’s Old Time Vinegar, Garlic, Baking Soda, and 101 more Problem Solvers (2500 Super Solutions for your Home, Health, and Garden)I am also very excited about using the ideas found here. We’ve already put into practice several of his problem solvers. Great book and I would recommend anyone into this type of thing to get this fun book!
And here are a few honerable mentions with self-explaining titles:
8. Uncommon Cures for Everyday Ailments
9. The Practical Encyclopedia of Natural Healing
by Mark Bricklin
Because I have children that have picked up on our love of reading I feared coming home without bringing them something:
10. I guess you could say I collect readers. No not the humans that read, but little story readers that have a bunch of stories inside. I absolutley cannot pass them up! I’ve got old readers that are falling apart and new readers from Bob Jones & Abeka. I also love to get not only readers but textbooks as well from Mennonite/Anabaptist publishers as they teach Bible stories and moralso very well. This little book is called More Busy Times and the first reader Pathway reader I’ve collected.
11. I couldn’t find this book anywhere online. It is apparently one book in the series Little Gateways to Science, Nature Secrets by Mary Chambers. This book is in excellent condition with a copyright of 1923! It is a wonderful little book written superbly! “Every day in this garden there are marvelous happenings through the workings of hidden forces; there are magical transformations and changes; there are on every side unexplained mysteries.” A sampling of the chapters: Scientists and Secrets, The Beauties and Uses of Dust, Germs good, germs bad, and Germs merely Mischievous, Miss Oxygen at work and play…Doesn’t that sound fascinating!?
12. The Mighty Aztecs. I got this book for my son who is convinced that he wants to be a famous explorer one day (when he’s not thinking he would like to move to Lego Land and work for them.)
And last but not least I was happy to get my Dearest a book he’d been looking for for quite awhile, but didn’t want to pay full price.
13. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Stephen Covey. While I collect readers, he collects self-help books J Barnes & Noble had this to say, “Stephen R. Covey’s incredibly successful book is a pathway to wisdom and power. It offers a revolutionary program to breaking the patterns of self-defeating behavior that keep us from achieving our goals and reaching our fullest potential, and describes how to replace them with a principle-focused approach to problem-solving.”
This post linked to:
Things I love Thursday at The Diaper Diaries
3 Moms Thirteen Thursday at Happy to be At Home
A Beautiful Life at the Inspired Room
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