Nonfiction
Delving into a few more nonfiction books, skimming through for the main ideas.
Trust Your Mind by Jenara Nerenberg, May 6, 2025; HarperOne; NetGalley
Genre: self help, adult nonfiction, health, mind and body
My take on this book: the author feels that people are not being honest with each other, not saying what's really on their minds or what they think about various topics society considers sensitive. This means that real conversation and debate is stifled in the interest of compliant behavior, not "rocking the boat" and only "going with the flow."
My question about this is: if you are honest all the time, are you opening yourself to being slapped, punched, ostracized, or being canceled in this "cancel culture" ? Are we staying nice or neutral just to please or to fit in and be part of a group?
Description: self-silencing culture and the toxic impact of groupthink. How to navigate an increasingly polarized world
Goodbye to Inflammation by Sandra Monino, July 1, 2025; HarperOne; NetGalley
A diet plan, recipes, and the basics to combat inflammation and improve health.
I'm interested in the anti-inflammatory diet plan that helps promote health, and downloaded this book to read in depth.
Currently reading: fiction
The Gulf by Rachel Cochran, June 13, 2023; Harper; NetGalley
Genre: adult fiction, mystery, thriller
I pulled this book from my vast to be read list, chosen for the colors on the cover. I admit that blues and blue greens are a draw, also ice and snow on book covers, paradoxically.
The characters and plot are good, so far. Lou hasn't seen Joanna for a good fifteen years, when Joanna returns to town to ask Lou for a favor - to help refurbish the crumbling mansion of her late mother Kate, whose death might have been accidental, or not.
Description: set on the gulf coast of Texas in the 1970s at the height of the women’s liberation movement, a closeted young woman attempts to solve her surrogate mother’s murder in a tight-knit, religious small town.
The Red Notebook by Antoine Laurain, July 1, 2025; Pushkin Press; NetGalley
Genre: literary fiction, romance
I love everything Paris! This is a good reason to read this book - chasing through the city with a bookseller in search of the writer of the notebook he found.
Description: a bookseller pursues a mystery woman—known only through the jottings in her red notebook—through the streets of Paris.
What are you reading, watching, or listening to this week?
Memes: The Sunday Post, It's Monday: What Are You Reading, Sunday Salon, and Stacking the Shelves, Mailbox Monday
