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Subtitled “A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage,” this is a sequel to Eat, Pray, Love. I was expecting an exploration of emotional commitment as detailed as the exploration of transformation, self-discovery, and healing in Eat, Pray, Love. Instead, Committed documents the political institution of marriage. In Linchpin, Seth Godin mentions that Elizabeth Gilbert printed out [...] Recommended by: Seth Godin’s blog Seth Godin brings together several of his ideas about how to survive in our changed economy. His main premise is that non-thinking “factory” work is no longer the road to security. “Factory” is in quotes because he uses it to include any job which involves following the rules and doing [...] In connection with reading Being Bodies, I tracked down this book. It turns out I’d read it a long time ago and remembered many of the stories, although I’d forgotten their source. Cheri Huber herself admits that the title is a bit of a trick. Rather than trying to move from Here to There, she [...] Recommended by: Robert Sutton blog post (via Twitter) It’s a rare business book that focuses on warmth, kindness, and peaceful, loving environments. This compassionate little book, subtitled Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn’t, does so with clarity and conviction. In this book, you’ll find: A definition of assholes (also known as jerks, bullies, tyrants, etc.) Recommended by: Ursula Le Guin In contrast to Tove Jansson’s kind, easygoing, whimsical Moomintrolls, the humans in The True Deceiver are hard-edged, uneasy, complicated. Yellow-eyed young Katri Kling and her “simple” younger brother Mats are orphans in a blue-eyed Finnish village. Katri fights for survival through observation and analysis, noting her fellow villagers’ hostility towards her and [...] Recommended by: Catherine Holmes Clark, who also has a detailed site about her journey with environmental illness. The sweet relief of reading about Buddhism from the perspective of women connected with their bodies took me by surprise. Until I read this book, I didn’t realize how much I’d been reading around a feeling of exclusion in [...] Recommended by: a client. Geneen Roth has written several books about overcoming compulsive eating by removing external rules around food and listening to one’s own body instead. She also talks about the source of compulsive eating – not an internal lack of control, but a survival strategy to overcome the lack of external control in childhood. In [...] I liked How To Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk so much that I read the authors’ prior book. “Liberated Parents, Liberated Children” was published first, by many years. It tells the story of how the authors and a group of other parents (fictionalized to protect privacy) learned respectful, compassionate communication [...] Recommended by: Spirituality bookgroup, and several others. Lynne Twist recounts her fundraising for The Hunger Project non-profit, including anecdotes about her encounters with both desperately poor and despairingly wealthy people. She also shares her own journey from oblivious, superficial spending to heart-centered use of funds. She explores the effects of our toxic myths of scarcity (there’s not enough, more [...] Recommended by: a friend who spends a lot of time at the computer. The book begins, “[M]y head was balancing on a completely loose neck. It actually felt as if it was free of gravity and it was a pleasure to turn my head since my neck felt so supple, my shoulders were light as flufffed [...] |
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