April's Book Club Selection

This month's selection for the book club is about growth, and living your best life. I consider myself to be a work in progress, and need all the help I can get. I love to read Martha Beck's column in O Magazine every month. Every time I read one of her pieces, I feel enlightened. As I  perused the table of contents, I immediately knew this was the book I wanted to read with y'all. With essay titles like: When You Should Hold a Grudge, How to Deal With Highly Defensive People in Your Life, Escape Your Rat Race, and How to Be Wildly Successful, I know this will be a game changer. Will you join me?

You can get this book where ever you get books, I like Amazon. It is only $3.99 for the Kindle version. You don't have to have a Kindle to use the Kindle app, you can download the app for your desktop or your devices. More information on free Kindle apps.. 

Let's get enlightened! 

XOXO, 

Riss

Feel Good Friday: National Reading Month

So, March is National Reading Month, what does that mean? It means: READ A BOOK this month. If you don't read any other month you simply must read in March, and hurry there are only 11 more days! Even if you just take the time to read to a child in your life, read. It is a gift to be literate, and you should not take it for granted.

I teach reading at a community college and on one of the beginning of the semester survey's a student wrote, "I hate reading, I don't like reading, I hate reading", but even he is reading during National Reading Month thanks to his persistent overbearing professor.

I am currently reading two books: The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver with my class, and Queen Sugar by Natalie Baszile. I had already read The Bean Trees, but rereading it with my students has been fantastic.

 Now, on to Queen Sugar. I really like this book. I am currently on chapter 17, and didn't want to put it down to write this! Please join the book club if you haven't yet. I couldn't wait to the end of the month to talk about it, so I have added a post to the forum: http://hella-natural-forums.62808.x6.nabble.com/Queen-Sugar-f13.html. Chime in!

That's all for now, I gotta go read!

XOXO,
Riss

I truly believe books to be transformative. What books have you read that have shaped you or changed your perspective? 

Review: Food Rules

Food Rules: An Eater's Manual is a follow-up to Michael Pollan's In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto. It provides guidance on how to eat healthily by pulling wisdom from various traditions from cultures around the world. My favorite quote from the book is, "Eat when you're hungry, not when you're bored...........Food is a costly antidepressant."


It is a really easy read. I read it in under an hour. I would recommend checking it out from the library. Then purchasing it, if you really like it.


~Riss