Anyone read any good books lately?

[tracee1010]

I finally found time to do some reading. I usually read self help stuff but would like to read stories or actual life things for a while.

I recently picked up BROKEN: from addiction to redemption,
by William Cope Moyers. it was GREAT!!!

it was about a person who didnt feel like he fit the addict stereotype (as if there were one) felt he was above addiction, felt he should/did know better. I can relate to the feeling of "I know better, and am embarressed It got me or into my life" He struggled with HP, powerlessness, and stigma.. I really ejoyed it and was wondering if anyone else knew of any other good books.

[vicoprincess93]

I just got this book by Charles Dickens caled like two cities or somethin like that. Can't resist that classic lit! I hope its good.

[SpaceDementia]

A user on here recommended this book to me and it's beautiful. "The Prophet" by Kahil Gibran. Very inspiring, very comforting, very thought-provoking, very deep....

[TJ68]

read the book : into the wild and kite runnner, life of pye,

[Toomutch]

I recently read a series of books by Sophia Kinsella, ""The Shopaholic Series". Easy and fun to read; similar to Bridgette Jones Diaries.
For the reader that needs to kick back, relax and laugh their asses off.

[tracee1010]

my addiction = shopping.. gggrrrr......
sounds like a great book though..

i'll check it out.

[larrylive]

The Power of Positive Thing,
Norman Vincent Peale

Larrylive

[Latte]

I am reading A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle I am very inspired.

[steve_c]

Also reading a New Earth very spriritual, very good.
Some super motivating books I reccomend....

The Success Principles: Jack Canfield
Think and Grow Rich: Napoleon Hill
The Secret: Rhonda Byrne
Don't Sweat the Small Stuff(And it's all small stuff): authour unknown

[Elseegee]

I like this topic!

My therapist recommended Beliefs by Robert Dilts; ties in to changing your old ideas and creating new idea. Amazing the beliefs I had that tied to in my old way of thinking.

[semisane]

"The 5 people you meet in heaven" by Mitch Albom. First saw a TV adaptation of the book then bought the book because I found it inspiring

[Serenity2008]

A piece of cake by Cupcake Brown was extremely inspiring to me.

Also, A thousand splendid suns was an amazing story.

[faith08]

im reading duma key by stephen king (and making myself go slowly----it's so easy for me to just get lost in his books and read them all in one day)
it's really good-i'm enjoying it
steve-i think the don't sweat the small stuff book u are talking about is by richard carlson and is very good. there is a whole series of them-i have 8

[utopia]

i read A new earth. awesome book. very life changing!! also liked gary zukav the seat of the soul (heart of the soul and mind of the soul too...also john bradshaw is good. im reading louise hay, you can heal your life, at the moment and theres a chunk of affirmations at the back which are very good...he's just not that into you: your daily wake up call...this is like a daily reader with funny albeit valid reasons for building esteem in your relations esp in the dating etc sense......just go to ur local bookstores self help section and feel the vibes. thats what i do and i get sorta led to some interesting reads and find some ijust gotta take home and they change my consciousness. good luck with ur journey!you are loved!

[dgillz]

Faith,

You may not know it, but Stephen King is an admitted alcoholic. Yep one of us.

I have been reading "Dr Bob and the Good Oldtimers"". the true story of Dr Bob's life and how he and Bill Wilson started AA, etc. Very educational and inspirational.

[Wolfstarr]

"Life Lessons" by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross and David Kessler

excellent.

[Coolmummy]

I'm looking for some biographies/life stories of alcoholics. I have read a few but I need to read more! Anyone got any hot tips??


thanks

sas

[dgillz]

Drinking: A Love Story by Caroline Knapp. Her own story.

[Coolmummy]

I've read that one! Excellent book

[ColdSweat]

Originally Posted by vicoprincess93

I just got this book by Charles Dickens caled like two cities or somethin like that. Can't resist that classic lit! I hope its good.

Tale of Two Cities. Longest love letter ever written to an alcoholic, ever. I tried to beat it with, "A Love Song for Shoomaker", but, that was a short story and only came out 16 pages :p. Haha.

But uh, yeah I read like mad (I'm a writer myself). I'm heavy into Bukowski, a total skid row bum, a drunk, who's writing is just... no words describe it. He's the best ever. I recommend!!! Start with the short stories, Tales of Ordinary Madness & The Most Beautiful Woman In Town. Then move onto the poetry. And the novels, Ham on Rye, Post Office, Hot Water Music, Fact Totum, there's more, too. And I also love Ginsberg, my boyfriend got me into the brilliant man. I laughed with him at the preface, and cried with the prologue in Cosmopolitan Greetings, Gin's compiled poems from 1986-1992. Then move onto the other compilation, for the following years, White Shroud, the years escape me at the moment. Also, I love Damon Runyon, a man who puts cunning linguists to shame whilst speaking of gambling degenerates, drunks, gangsters, on the streets of New York in a depression-era. Start off with his compiled short stories, Guys and Dolls. Don't base it off the movie, the book's eight million times better. Though, despite that, I love the movie.

I also recommend Off Magazine Street by Ronald Everrett Capps. It's the novel that the movie, A Love Song For Bobby Long (one of my faves<3) is based off of. Loosely, but. The book is in my top 5 in all time, it's circling Rennsealer County Jail right now, because I lent it to my uncle when he was behind the wall. And he gave it to a friend of ours, who gave it to another guy when he got out haha. It's a wonderful, wonderful, poetic book. About an ex-professor who turns drunk after the death of his young son, who loses his family in turn, and moves to New Orleans with his protege, a younger man, a writer/poet, who is writing the prof's (Bobby Long) life story, or trying to. They're both stone-cold alcoholics... but their lives get turned upside down when a young, sober girl moves in with them, because her late mother owned the house that the drunks live in (they were all friends from back in the day), and these three individuals, who walk around quoting Frost and Whitman and Dickens... they all grow from it.