Good for a Girl "Part memoir, part manifesto, Good for a Girl is Laura Fleshman's story of falling in love with running as a girl, battling devastating injuries and self-doubt, and daring to fight for a better way for female athletes." While I am not an elite athlete, I still found many of her experiences SO relatable.
All Good People Here Murder Mystery in a small town. Page-turner. Not a whole lot of substance and sometimes that's just perfect. I did not guess the ending. (PG-13ish)
Digital Minimalism This book is why I have more time to read. I do get annoyed with myself when my focus wanders to how this book would be beneficial to other people ...like my kids. Overall I'm finding it helpful and enlightening.
"Cal Newport provided practical advice on how to embrace the philosophy of Digital Minimalism:
- Spend time alone to gain solitude
- Leave your phone at home
- Take long walks
- Write letters to yourself (journaling)
- Don't click "likes"
- Avoid falling into the slot machine feedback loop of likes
- Consolidate texting
- hold conversation office hours
- Reclaiming conversations
- Reclaim Leisure
- prioritize demanding leisure activity over pass consumption
- use skills to produce valuable things in the physical world
- seek leisure activities with real world, structured social interactions
- fix, or build something every week
- schedule low quality leisure
- join something (e.g. a community)
- follow leisure plan
- Join the attention resistance
- delete social media from your phone
- turn your device into single-purpose computers
- embrace slow media
- dumb down your smart phone"
- (👆top comment from GoodReads)
24/6 I haven't started this one yet. The concept of a day set apart from all technology is so appealing to me! I am not there yet. 🥴
Everything Fat Loss I really enjoy Ben Carpenter from Instagram (@bdccarpenter). He's compassionate, nuanced, funny, so smart, and gives (I think) good advice. I especially appreciate his agnostic approach. Of course I'm going to enjoy a book when the author feels this way:
“I am also going to discuss the pros, cons and misconceptions of weight loss itself. While the diet industry often makes it seem like you need to lose weight to be attractive, feel more confident and be healthier, these are not necessarily true, at least not in such black-and-white terms. I don’t think it is a good idea to promote weight loss as a cure-all solution without discussing some possible side effects of dieting.”
“Your happiness is not guaranteed to go up when your body fat levels go down, and obsessing over the way you look can come with its own psychological risks.”
I MEAN. COME ON. 👏 I love this.
The Small and the Mighty 10/10. I AM LOVING THIS BOOK. If you're local I have a copy and am happy to lend out!
This Poem by Danielle Coffyn:
Wild
Give me silvery strands.
the milky growth of aging
intertwined with the sediment
of youth.
Give me stretch marks
along thighs.
one gleaming stripe
for each year this body
survived winter.
Give me scars and sunspots,
proof of every season
weathered.
Give me laugh lines
like the hyena,
rooted canyons along
eyes and mouth,
impervious to wrinkle cream,
so profound was our joy.
What are you reading?
PS full disclosure: I linked all of these on Amazon but most of these I either checked out from the library or listened to on Audible.