A new month! And it's Sunday so it's time for another update from me with this weeks books
Already Read This Year
1. Kids with Celiac Disease: A Family Guide to Raising Happy, Healthy, Gluten-free Children by Danna Korn
2. The Simple Guide to Having a Baby: What You Need to Know by Janet Whalley, Penny Simkin, Ann Keppler
3. A Complaint Free World by Will Bowen
4. The One Minute Teacher by Spencer Johnson
5. Damaged Angels by Bonnie Buxton
6. Real Food for Mother and Baby by Nina Planck
7. The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
8. Unclutter Your Life by Katherine Gibson
9. Unclutter Your Life in One Week by Erin Rooney Doland
10. Men are From Mars, Women are From Venus by John Gray
11. Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering by Sarah Buckley12. Unconditional Parenting by Alfie Kohn
*This is my second time reading this book. I love his style of writing and I refer back to this book as one of my tried and trues for parenting whenever I feel like I need it again. His main focus is that it doesn't matter how we perceive what we do/say to our children, what matters is how they perceive it, and working to make that as unconditional as possible.
13. Curly Girl by Lorraine Massey
*A short, easy read about living with and loving your curly hair. I don't have curly hair, but my oldest son does and it was recommended on here as a good book for parents of curly haired children to read. I learned some things I didn't know about how to care for curly hair and I'm hoping that we will be able to implement her ideas and reduce the amount of conflict we've been having over his hair care. I won't likely read it again, but I would recommend it for those with or with children with curly hair.
14. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
*I read this book for the first time and I can see why so many recommend it. It is different from most of the books that I read, but I found myself able to get right into the world
As much as I enjoyed it, and while I would recommend it, I probably won't read it again unless I read it with one of my children when they are older.
15. Concious Loving by Gay and Kathlyn Hendricks
*This is the first of two books by this couple that I have signed out from the library to read. It was recommended to DP and I by a therapist friend of ours. The second (much smaller) part of the book is actually exercises to work through with your partner or by yourself to help heal relationships. It was very different from other relationship books I've read, a lot more of feeling your feelings as deeply as you can, and not hiding from them or hiding them from your partner. I enjoyed it.
16. Your Money or Your Life by Joseph R. Dominguez and Vicki Robin
*I read this book for the second time. We are Dave Ramsey followers, but still I love the principles in this book as well. I love the idea that time is valuable, and is life energy, and so we should be conscious about what we are spending it on.
17. What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Circumcision by Paul Fleiss
*This was a school read for me and it is a must read I would say for anyone considering circumcision for their child. Even for those who aren't I think it has a lot of valuable information about the function of the foreskin and the the natural variations in intact males that anyone with an intact partner or child could benefit from. I am very glad I read it and in fact am getting DP to read it as well, minus the parts on actual circumcision as our boys are intact and I don't feel that most people who already have made up their minds to keep their children intact will need the level of knowledge that is there about the process of circumcision. It is written by a doctor who used to preform circumcisions and now is an intactivist.
18. View from the Bedpan by Beverley June Richmond
*This is a book about healing from a traumatic, life altering injury. The woman who wrote this book was hit by a van while crossing the street, thrown in the air, and then run over by the van... and she lived through the accident and the resulting multiple fractures, including skull, and internal injuries including a brain injury. She lived in the same city as me and worked at the local newspaper. Her writing style is now a little repetitive, I'm sure because of the brain injury, but it's an amazing story of triumph and she has great ideas for those who are healing from similar accidents.
19. House Works by Cynthia Townley Ewer
*This is a well laid out book on tackling the organization of your home. She covers everything from how to clean to how to organize and how to effectively store things. I follow the FLYLady emails and I found this was incredibly similar, right down to using the same terminology in a lot of places, but as far as I know there are no official ties between them.
20. Concious Living by Gay Hendricks
*This book is the follow up to Concious Loving which I also read this week. Unlike the first book this one can be read and implemented completely without your partner's participation. It would be ideal for someone without a partner, although I also think I gained a lot from this book as well even though I am partnered. I am glad that my friend recommended them to me to read.
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