Nonfiction

The Language of Spirit
When I think about books that have changed my life, there is one that stands out far more than any other - what I mean to say is that it changed my life in so many ways, and at such a deep, and profound level, that there's no question: THIS is the one.
By Elizabeth MacKinnon3 years ago in BookClub
If God created me in His/Her image, I was a perfect jar of chaos.
It was 2018, maybe 2019. I had just graduated college with a degree in Psychology and found myself drifting through the day to day of a world that was no longer my own. The past seventeen years a blur of memories and milestones. Of champions and failures.
By Rae Janney3 years ago in BookClub
Surely You're Joking, Mr Feynman
I'm oppositional. If everyone is doing things one way, I'll ask, why does it have to be that way? And then I'll probably do the exact opposite of whatever everyone else is doing. My whole life, the people around me advised me that this was not a good plan. To get ahead in life, it's better to keep one's head down, blend in, and not try to prove other people wrong.
By Scott Christenson🌴3 years ago in BookClub
Nonviolent COMMUNICATION--A Language of Life
In a world that often feels like a stormy sea of misunderstandings, I found solace in the words of Marshall B. Rosenberg's book Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life. It was a recommendation from a former friend that led me to this transformative journey through the pages of a book that would forever change my perspective on communication and connection.
By ANTICHRIST SUPERSTAR3 years ago in BookClub
Seeing Hope in Destruction
I am deeply passionate about the climate crisis and our connection with the world. That passion was fueled by the knowledge I gained during the semester I spent on my Farm to Table Concentration in college. My primary professor for that semester assigned us many exceptional reads that served to heighten my awareness about the world around me and the role that we all play in altering it. Although assigned by this professor as reading for my final semester in college, not my Concentration semester, Adventures in the Anthropocene: A Journey to the Heart of the Planet We Made by Gaia Vince had, perhaps, the most profound impact on me.
By Calista Marchand-Nazzaro3 years ago in BookClub
The Worst of Us
My evaluation of a book that changed me led to this conclusion: it was two books. And the books are about the same thing...sort of. There is a singular period of time that must be learned in every history class. That is WW2 and the Holocaust. These two books are about that time.
By Bugsy Watts3 years ago in BookClub
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man (2004) by John Perkins
As someone with a Masters Degree in Latin American history, nothing stated in this book came as a surprise to me. However, having the truth presented by an actual economic hit man (EHM) was hard-core confirmation of the dirty dealings of major American corporations working together with agents of the U.S. government.
By Joyce O’Day3 years ago in BookClub
The Deep Transformation from "The Tattooist of Auschwitz" by Heather Morris
Picture the scene: the ScotRail train coasting eastwards half-asleep against an early Scottish morning, with the dewy, dreary Western Scotland clashing against the awakening buzz of a clear work-day sky of the Eastern side. I'm sitting around the middle of the train, staring at nothing across the passing-by backdrop of the Scottish lowlands, tears streaming endlessly down my face, with a copy of The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris laid across my lap.
By Cameron Smith3 years ago in BookClub
A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes
When I was nine, I watched the Sunday night movie with Mampau like I did every Sunday night. This week, it was a movie based on an actress that had been super famous in the fifties and sixties. Me being the old soul that I was, was instantly intrigued. This movie had been based on her autobiography, which I wouldn't get the chance to read until around twenty years later.
By Judith Jascha3 years ago in BookClub
Ain't No Monologue Like A Vagina Monologue
The script became the play that became a book, or a playbook, or generations of unspoken thoughts and feelings that needed to 'scream-yell-and-tell' like there was no tomorrow because there wouldn’t be. Not without us and our vaginas. Yep, vaginas. But such awful things happened to them. And kept on happening to them. And a massive silent public didn’t seem too outwardly bothered enough.
By The Dani Writer3 years ago in BookClub
Dune is Not About Oil
The prompt for the Book Club challenge is funny because it was David Lynch’s 1984 adaptation that introduced me to Dune. Dune was one of my favorite movies as a kid. It was one of my top picks at the library, besides all the Star Trek and Universal monster movies I could get my hands on. My love for the Dune universe grew in the 90s, with the books from Brian Herbert. Despite this, I would not read the first novel until 2017. Why, I am unsure. Since then I have dove as deep into the Dune universe as I can. I still have not finished the original series, due to a combination of work and school. Well, also after acquiring a copy of the encyclopedia, I decided I wanted to have the time to sit and read the series with that as my companion. Because if Dune does nothing else, it raises a lot of questions for the reader. Both in and out of the universe.
By Atomic Historian3 years ago in BookClub
Silhouettes of Real Things
Grandpa Bernie died from a stroke in 1994. I was only three years old then so I don't have any memories of him. But there have been bits and pieces of him left behind that affected me as I got older. I have a stuffed rabbit and a picture of him handing it to me on my first Easter. I have stories of him and the kind of man he was that was told to me by my family. Most importantly, I have a book of poems he wrote which was published after he passed away.
By Jean Bruce3 years ago in BookClub