What was your favorite book you read this year? Readers of this blog will know that mine was Jill Bolte Taylor's My Stroke of Insight. Jill helped me to understand that happiness is the natural state of the right hemisphere of my brain, and though it might make me feel powerful to engage in anger, that emotion, like others, is based on a physiological response that runs for 90 seconds, then is out of the bloodstream (unless we choose to keep it running)! All day long we can consciously make choices that contribute to our health, or to illness.
At present I am thoroughly enjoying Sidney Poitier's book-on-tape Life Beyond Measure. He has wonderful chapters on faith and love, and one on shyness. Because of his shyness, he believes, he was a good listener, which in turn made him a better learner. He did lots of listening, watching, and imagining.
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Nothing to Envy, by Barbara Demick. It is the stories of six defectors from North Korea who tell what their lives were like under that miserable, totalitarian regime and how they escaped.
I feel kinda bad for saying this but any of the Sigma books by James Rollins. Sorta Indiana Jones on steroids.
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