I’ve been working through a book titled “Decisive.” It is a great book on making better decisions in life and work. It’s also more like doing work than just relaxing, so yesterday, at the library, I checked out what I consider to be a decadent read, “Eat, Pray, Love.”
I enjoyed the movie. The idea of traveling the world is a life long dream of mine. Seeking a deeper understanding of how I fit into the larger cosmos is for me a constant. I have no issues with eating really good food.
As I started reading the book I found two things that I don’t relate to. The first is that I’m not looking for a way out of my marriage. I made the mistake of mentioning this part of the book to my husband by saying, “You know there is a part in the book where the author says that she doesn’t want to be married anymore…” The look on his face said that I needed to quickly make my point. I said, “Don’t worry Honey. I was going to finish by saying that I don’t want out of my marriage.” Make sure you preface statements like that better than I did. The second is that I call myself a Christian because I am a follower of Jesus Christ. This is a statement I have complete faith in saying, and I hope that it doesn’t mean I can’t engage in a meaningful conversation with a person who doesn’t share my faith. That last statement is a whole other blog post.
Anyway, I am looking forward to reading the rest of the book. Any good reads that you want to share?
Currently working through these books:
- Decisive: How To Make Better Choices In Life And Work by Chip and Dan Heath
- Lost Kingdom: Hawaii’s last queen, The Sugar Kings, and America’s First Imperial Adventure by Julia Flynn Siler
- Every Body Matters: Strengthening Your Body to Strengthen Your Soul by Gary Thomas
- Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
- Freefall to Fly: A Breathtaking Journey Toward a Life of Meaning by Rebekah Lyons
Solacegirl 
Glad you’re writing again. You keep posting and I promise I will too.
I’m not very good at juggling as many books as you.
Presently, I go back and forth with Quiet: The power of Introverts in a World that can’t stop talking by Susan Cain
and go back over The Gift of Imperfection:Let Go of Who You Think You’re Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are by Brene’ Brown
So…real light reading. :>) Actually, Brene’ Brown’s book is very profound while being an easy read.
Wild by Cheryl Strayed…I bought it in the Miami airport, had 3/4 read by the time we touched down in Eugene. It’s about a woman who hikes the Pacific Coast Trail alone. I found her descriptions and epiphanies to be very interesting but like Eat, pray, love, I found the I couldn’t relate to some of her thoughts…the getting out a marriage part, her abuse of sex and drugs after. No redeeming spiritual value except it hits me at a time when I was encouraged by someone who pushed themselves way out of a comfort zone. And yes, I now want to hike the PCT.
Glad to read your thoughts and the books you are reading!
Juju, sounds great! Love the title of that first one. Would probably be a good choice for me to read about the other side. I seem to find it difficult to finish one book before I start another. I did read The Help and The Shack uninterrupted during trips to the beach. I remember looking up and realizing how dark it was, and that it was time to turn the light on because I had been sitting in the same spot for hours.
Faye, hiking the PCT would be an amazing adventure. I’ve hiked parts of it, but never all of it. Maybe an epic journey is in our future. Sometimes I find that it’s good to get pushed outside of your comfort zone. There are some boundaries that I don’t want to push, like reading “Fifty Shades of Grey.”
Yes, I thought of you when I read it! We’ve got to do something epic together, we always talk about it…like the Amazng Race or travel to Turkey (remember?) I’ve got to get my knee healed up better and we need to get you feeling better and then we need to just get out there!
And I don’t want to read Fifty Shades of grey, BTW
Faye, yes to health, yes to following through on an adventure, and I would eat my hat if you said that you had or wanted to read FSOG.
Just finished Don Pipers 90 minutes in Heaven, I have started reading various titles by T Davis Bunn. Picked up a new one while volunteering in the fbc library called the harbinger. Mostly light reading for me right now. I seem to go in cycles. Read fiction or biographies for awhile then self help books or books relating to growing as a christian etc.