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Sue’s suggestions on books to read

  1. The Beekeeper, (2018) By Mikhail, Dunya – ISBN 978-0-8112-2612-7
  2. The Telomere Effect (2017) By Blackburn, Elizabeth and Epel, Elissa – ISBN 978-1455587974
  3. State of the Heart (2019) By Warraich, Haider – ISBN 978-1250169709
  4. Code Girls (2017) By Mundy, Liza – ISBN 978-0316439893
  5. Solve For Happy (2017) By Gawdat, Mo – ISBN 978-1501157554

With the above suggested reads, a reader will have no shortage of something to think about.

The Beekeeper helped me to realize that the expressions of humanity when a person is in need is something we should all think about. The cover of the book shows honeybees flying away with one honeybee holding a butterfly in the grasp of its leg similar to a helicopter making a rescue. I’m hopeful that with more people reading the book and awareness to the struggle for the women of the middle east that help is on the way. My thought – how about a non-profit like bees and butterflies to create an avenue of funding for rescued and rescuers?

The Telomere Effect provided an insightful look into life challenges and the outcome on the body of diet, stress and sleep. Adding this read to The Beekeeper suggested read helps to understand that providing a safe, supportive environment reduces the level of stress and thus, allows the telomeres to sustain a healthy length and provide longevity. Thank you to the authors for the culmination of many years of research and a crafted summary of valuable information.

State of the Heart is another helpful tool to realize that although a person may have medical test results that do not show any sign of distress, just listening to a person’s life challenges may provide the valuable key and unlock the knowledge needed to make life threatening decisions. My thought – the fact that a medical machine is trying to diagnose a person’s heart may not always be the solution. I am thankful for medical devices to pinpoint blockages and human body problems, but as human beings listening with an open heart may be the desirable advantage.

Code Girls is a book I did not want to stop reading. It’s one of the books that I like to have on the weekends for marathon reading. Not stopping to sleep, eat, etc. The author did a great job of providing narrative of what the women were going through intellectually, emotionally, spiritually, and physically during a difficult time of world challenges. I’m not sure the term “post traumatic stress disorder” (“PTSD”) was defined in the era of war time work the Code Girls were performing and from reading the book it seems there was a fair amount of PTSD for the women breaking code. Something to think about. At least some of the women were able to be recognized late in life for the difficult work that was completed.

Solve For Happy was a very helpful read to understand life, grief and learn that life is about loss and recovery. I felt the huge differences of emotional and physical pain going through the experience of losing the love of my life and helping him to live and die in 2004. The author provides a personal experience of loss and how to continue living and working to move forward and be happy while going through some of the most challenging of times in life.

Enjoy!

Sue

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The Next Five Recommended Reads

  1. Option B, (2017) By Sandberg, Sheryl and Grant, Adam – LCCN 2016057738; ISBN 9781524732684 (hardcover); ISBN 9781524732691 (ebook); ISBN 9781524711214 (open market);
  2. Accessing the Healing Power of the Vagus Nerve, (2017) By Rosenberg, Stanley – LCCN 2015028780; ISBN 9781623170240 (trade paperback); ISBN 9781623170240 (trade paperback); ISBN 9781623170257 (ebook);
  3. The Pursuit of Perfect, (2009) By Ben-Shaher, Tal – ISBN 9780071608824 (alk paper);
  4. The Last Butterflies, (2019) By Haddad, Nick – LCCN 2018965563; ISBN 9780691165004; and
  5. The Moment of Lift, (2019) By Gates, Melinda – LCCN 2018051054; ISBN 9781250313577 (hard cover); ISBN 9781250229199 (international); ISBN 97812503135601 (ebook).

A variety of reads to fill a mind with life adventures and experiences

Option B is a helpful short read about grief experiences and navigating the world of life after a loss. The authors did a great job of providing emotion and humor intertwined when trying to take small steps to deal with every day life after a person has died. It was interesting to hear of others stories and experiences and what helped in a moment of sadness. Also, to understand and learn to be more empathetic to another person’s way of dealing with loss came through in the book.

Accessing the Healing Power of the Vagus Nerve is a deep informative read with exercise photos of how to correct posture and musculoskeletal form to heal oneself of any type of ailment. The author did a wonderful job of providing an informative read with his years of research and practice into helping people with debilitating physical and mental conditions. Initially, I borrowed the book from the library and I intend to purchase the book because it is something I will return to for my own personal use. I highly recommend this book for understanding how the human body is designed to be functioning through correct posture and exercises.

The Pursuit of Perfect helps to understand failure and success and learning to teach our children how to embrace failure and not feel the negative connotations that surround failure. It is a great read for anyone learning that stress around the practice of perfection is undue stress because perfection does not actually exist. This is a most helpful read for everyone and should be incorporated into young adult education courses.

The Last Butterflies is chock full of the author’s research and results of observing and documenting butterfly habitats. The history that goes into the author’s information is so helpful to understanding that even a small patch of unimproved property can sustain a small population of butterfly species and that changing of the plant species within a small patch of property can dramatically make a difference to a butterfly specie habitat, but also enhance and sustain a small specie population. Additional information on species that have gone extinct is important to realize as Mother Earth endures climate change and how each individual human being can learn to be mindful of their own individual footprints and how to balance each footprint with nature.

The Moment of Lift was such an informative and at times, difficult read with heart wrenching stories by the author. She reveals very personal chapters of her own struggles in life and how to make the reader aware and mindful about women struggles in all areas of the world and how to make this world a better place for all. This is truly a wonderful book to help people of all groups and I highly recommend this book for young adult education courses.

I hope you enjoy the short summaries and pick up one of the books for a great read.

Sue