by Viktor E. Frankl, written in 9 days in 1945, first published 1946 Danette recommended this book, along with The Tattooist of Auschwitz. I’ve wanted to read it for a long time. The copy I read includes 6 parts: a Foreword by Harold S. Kushner; the Preface to the 1992 Edition; Part I, the story […]
Category: NonFiction
For Love of Country: Leave the Democrat Party Behind
by Tulsi Gabbard, 2024 Adam asked me to read this book. He forewarned me that it would make me mad. I should have asked him why he thought it would make me mad. I think the thing that makes him mad is how when Tulsi was running for President, and had completed her first debate […]
Connecting the Dots: What God is Doing When Life Doesn’t Make Sense
by Joel Malm, 2023 Adam’s book. He loaned it to me when I told him about my greatest fear is that he will be hurt. He read it on his way to Las Vegas in March 2024 for a Christmas Light seminar. His boarding pass was tucked in page 38. Page 38 is about a […]
Natural Hospital Birth: The Best of Both Worlds
by Cynthia Gabriel, 2018 Excellent book about how to go about having a natural childbirth in the hospital. Adam recommended it. Very easy to read. It started out with writing a birth plan, and then went into detail on the stages of labor and what could happen to thwart your plans for a natural childbirth […]
Building Wealth One House at a Time
by John W. Schaub, 2023, 2016, 2005 Adam recommended this book. Adam took him fishing. See picture above. There is no picture of the author on the back of the book, either. I think he likes to remain anonymous. He’s been buying houses and leasing them out since 1975. He is extremely hard-working, smart, logical, […]
Ina May’s Guide to Childbirth
by Ina May Gaskin, 2003, 2019 Recommended by Adam. This one was not as organized as the Susan McCutcheon book, Natural Childbirth the Bradley Way. Ina May is a midwife. She has been for decades. Her book, Spiritual Midwifery, was first written in 1975 and has been updated 7 times. She started a birthing center […]
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
by Matthew Walker, PhD, 2017 Incredibly “eye-opening” book about the importance of sleep! Wayne’s tennis buddy, Andrew, recommended it. I wasn’t going to read it – I got it from the Library for Wayne – but I’m so glad I did. Wow! Sleep is so incredibly important all throughout life and our modern world has […]
Natural Childbirth the Bradley Way
by Susan McCutcheon, 2017 (1984, May 1996, June 2017) Adam recommended this book. He listened to it while on the way home from Alaska. He and Danette own a copy of it. It was where he learned about how X-rays were done on fetuses and it took 20 years or so before this completely unnecessary […]
Cheap Land Colorado
by Ted Conover, 2022 This is our second book for Old Town Book Club 2024-2025, to be discussed on November 4th. Such a readable book! It’s about the people who live on raw land in the San Luis Valley of Colorado. He is an investigative journalist, grew up in Denver but now lives in New […]
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
by David Grann, 2023 Good, fast read by the author of Killers of the Flower Moon. Tells the true story of the ship, the Wager, a British warship that took off in 1740 for an ill-fated voyage with 4 other ships, to go around Cape Horn (the tip of South America) and capture a Spanish […]
The Fearless Mind
by Dr. Craig L. Manning, 2009, 2017 Adam sent me this book. Danette read it and liked it. It’s by a tennis player turned sports psychologist consultant. It’s like a thesis on how to control your mind, mainly, in order to become a peak performer. I like how he talks about thinking about the past […]
The Ideal Team Player
by Patrick Lencioni, 2016 Self-help, business-help book on how to be an ideal team player and find and cultivate ideal team players. Wish I’d known this when I was working! We sure got fooled a number of times. As I look back, I can see that if we’d had this model – humble, hungry, and […]
Fearfully and Wonderfully Made: The Astonishing New Science of the Senses
by Maureen Seaberg, 2023 I was so excited to read this book! I heard about 10 minutes of an interview on the radio program, 1A, with the author and it was so intriguing. I was very disappointed. I thought it was going to describe people with super senses, but it ended up being so disorganized […]
Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family
by Robert Kolker, 2020 This book was the 3rd book selection for Old Town Library Book Club 2023-2024. Karen selected it. It’s about a family that had 12 children and 6 of them end up with schizophrenia. They lived on Hidden Valley Road, in Woodmen Valley, right next door to the Skarke’s! That was a […]
Losing Our Religion: An Altar Call for Evangelical America
by Russell Moore, 2023 Saddening, maddening book by the editor in chief of Christianity Today and former president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission. It’s about the steep fall from grace of the Evangelical church. He writes with firsthand knowledge about the despicable leaders who want power and money at any […]
On Death
by Timothy Keller, 2020 Short, little book on death by Tim Keller, based on a sermon he preached at Kathy’s sister’s funeral, Terry Hall, on 1/6/2018. First he talks about how we fear death. One reason we fear it is because we don’t see it any longer. Our medical establishment has made it so we […]
Winterdance: The Fine Madness of Running the Iditarod
by Gary Paulsen, 1994 Very engrossing tale of Gary Paulsen’s first time running the Iditarod race from Anchorage to Nome. He loves his dogs! Cookie was his lead dog. He describes the different aspects and legs of the race so well. The whole thing is crazy like hell. He made almost fatal rookie mistakes – […]
Forgive: Why Should I and How Can I?
by Timothy Keller, 2022 Another AMAZING book by Tim Keller. What a blessing he was! Thank you, God, for Tim Keller. What a teacher of your Word. This was his last book, and it is everything a person needs to know about forgiveness. Forgiveness is only possible when a person is humble and realizes how […]
When People Are Big and God Is Small
by Edward T. Welch, 1997 Excellent book! I heard about it at Two Rivers Church from a woman who was giving her resurrection story. It sounded like me – care more for what people think than what God thinks. I requested it from the library and they had to get it from Covenant Theological Seminary […]
When Making Others Happy is Making You Miserable
by Karen Ehman, 2021 Christian self-help book for people-pleasers. She mainly focuses on one’s to-do list and learning to say no to others. What finally drove her to a summer of “no and necessary” was when a dear, dear friend of hers asked if her adult son might be able to stay with her once […]