Readers thread: what or who are you reading right now?

[Tornadic Thoughts]

Listening to an audio book in the car titled, Journey of Souls: Case Studies of Life Between Lives, by Michael Newton...it was recommended by a friend after the passing of my mom...am a little over halfway through a paperback that a friend shared with me titled, The Happiest Choice: Essential Tools for Everyone's Brain Feelings, by Sage Liskey...and just finished up another audio book from the library by Eckhart Tolle, titled, Through the Open Door to the Vastness of Your True Being.

 

[Rani G2]

Kongo David van Reybrouck

History of the Human body (In German) Danie E. Lieberman

 

[The Albatross]

Your Emotions Don't Care About You

 

[Trapped_Lost]

Currently trying to get into a book called f*ck It Therapy. It’s exactly how it sounds, learning how to say f*ck it to the little things. I tend to obsess over the littlest shit and I can’t for the life of me let it go until there’s an outcome of some kind. Lately I’ll lose complete focus on something important and I’ll obsess over something and then switch back and forth to things to obsess over until I’ve got 5-10 things I’m doing or thinking about. Then I can’t function. So this book the first chapter is about escaping the prison that we’ve built for ourselves. This routine we’ve created that is toxic that we can’t get out of. I have yet to get passed the first 4 pages because I get distracted or anxious. But it’s rated to be a great read .

 

[Teasel]

The Phillip Pullman trilogy was the first fiction I was able to read in years :D Am in similar situation to what you describe @Hopefulphoenix maybe, though difficulty concentrating has been more of an issue..am enjoying the phillip Pullman prequel to the trilogy on audiobook now. I loved the curious incident too. Though read that efore my troubles with reading.

Maybe have a look at Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt, or Slake's limbo by Felice Holman. I also loved The Outsiders and other books by SE Hinton.

 

[DharmaGirl]

@Hopefulphoenix, I started with young adult books. Then Cozy Mysteries. Easy to read, no real angst. What do you mean you have parts now? Are you doing Internal Family Systems therapy?

 

[The Albatross]

Handbook of Eudaimonic Well-Being came in and it's academic and will require a lot of concentration. I picked it up yesterday and it's brand spanking new - looks like it's never been read before. It made my eyes sparkle... nothing I like more than a brand new book.

 

[DharmaGirl]

nothing I like more than a brand new book

The way the binding makes a little cracking sound, the smell, the crisp pages! Utopia!

 

[The Albatross]

Started reading Gabriels Horses aloud (mom is reading to me or to her cat/companion animal Charlie Boy by Alison Hart. It is a trilogy. Starting her at about 5th grade reading level. Historical Kentucky & civil war fiction.

 

[Tornadic Thoughts]

Listening to another audio book from the library and really diggin' it....A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose, by Eckhart Tolle. It's mostly about ego, which hearing that word always makes me think about the "Let go of my eggo" old school commercial jingle. lol

 

[Tornadic Thoughts]

A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose, by Eckhart Tolle, that I mentioned above, is incredibly good, and just keeps getting better with each chapter. I've mostly been listening in the car and/or shower, so I can't take notes, but plan to listen more closely with a notepad and pen in hand. My memory is like a sieve, but there's been many "Damn, I need to write that down!" moments.

 

[The Albatross]

The Giver by Lois Lowry