Sunday, March 21, 2004

Reading List
Almost all of these books have been gifts I’ve received since Dec 18. This is a list of what I’ve read/am reading, and I can recommend all of them! I’ve included the giver of the gift—my way of saying thanks. I’ll update this list as I complete more books.

Books completed as of 3/21/04:
Biographies - “Cancer Schmancer” by Fran Drescher (Lisa Breithaupt)
“It’s not About the Bike” by Lance Armstrong (Michael Krumnauer)

Sprituality/Self-Help
“Healing Secrets of the Ages” and “The Dynamic Laws of Healing” by Catherine Ponder (William Ludwig - dad)
“Head First, The Biology of Hope” by Norman Cousins (Eleonore McCabe)
“The Creation of Healing” by Carolyn Myss, PhD (Eleonore McCabe)
“Healing Visualizations” by Gerald Epstein, M.D. (Eleonore McCabe)
(Recommended by Carol Reynolds)
“The Power of Full Engagement” by Jim Loehr & Tony Schwartz
(Donna & Bob Rooney)
“The Miracle of Mindfulness” Thich Nhat Hanh
(A book bought for Carol Reynold’s Body Dynamics Class)
“The Power of NOW” by Eckhart Tolle (Shelley & Dan Devine)
“The Four Agreements” by Don Miguel Ruiz (Michael Shooner)
“Seeds of Light” by Elizabeth K. Stratton M.S. (Donna Dimino)

Fiction - “Good in Bed” by Jennifer Weiner (Laura Lowe Everhart)
“The Crimson Petal and the White” by Michel Faber (Terry Schreiber)

Writing - “Bird by Bird” by Anne Lamott (Katie Rice)

Cancer-related - “Who Needs Hair…the Flipside of Chemotherapy”
By Sallie Astor Burdine (breast cancer survivor) (Lisa Breithaupt)

Audio books - “Me” The Katherine Hepburn Story – narrated by Ms. Hepburn herself
(Natalie Bauman)
“The Lake House” by James Patterson (Natalie Bauman)
“The DaVinci Code” Dan Brown (Natalie Bauman)

Currently reading:
Spirituality/Self-help
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“God Calling” by Two Witnesses edited by AJ Russell (daily meditations)
(Bobbi Kravis)
“365 Tao” by Deng Ming-Dao (daily meditations) (Bobbi Kravis)
"Insight Meditation" by Sharon Salzberg & Joseph Goldstein (Beckie Wilson & Nelson Miranda)


Audio books: “Snow Falling on Cedars” David Guterson (Natalie Bauman)