[stylist] Nonfiction books

Tue Aug 18 20:13:09 UTC 2015

Thanks for sharing, I have not read any of these, and they all sound
interesting.

Bridgit

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Hey Bridgit,

Like you, I read a mix of fiction and non-fiction. The last nnon-fiction
books I read were Amy Poehler's 'Yes Please', which was a mildly interesting
book about her life and career as an improv comedian, then a star on
Saturday Night Live and Parks and Rec. 

'The Four Agreements' by Don Miguel Ruiz is an interesting philosophical
book by a Mexican doctor who was in a bad car crash, flatlined, then was
brought back to life. While 'dead', he visited some of his Toltec Indian
ancestors, and they gave him the four fold path to a happy life. 

'The Last Week' is  by Marcus J. Borg and John Dominic Crossan, two
theologians who dissect and analyze the last week of Jesus's life, according
to the scriptures. I thought they presented some compelling ideas about the
meaning of Jesus's death, and whether it was a substitutional sacrifice for
all our sins, or not.

'Icebound: A Doctor's Story of Survival at the South Pole' is a memoir  by
Jerri Nielsen. In 1999, she was the only medical person at the United States
research station on the South Pole. In the winter, she diagnosed herself
with an aggressive form of breast cancer. Since temps at that time often go
below a hundred degrees below zero, planes can't land. The story of life,
and the people who winter at the south pole, was fascinating to me.

Chris

PS - 'Orange is the New Black' took place at the Women's Correctional
Facility in Danbury, CT--the town where I live.       

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