one thousand gifts: intro and chapter 1
Posted: March 7, 2011 Filed under: Book Club, Books, On My Nightstand, Us Sorenson's | Tags: book club Leave a comment
Hello Hello my book-reading friends! As promised here are the links to the Book Club at (in)courage.me for ‘One Thousand Gifts’.
Here’s hoping you and I can grab a moment today to watch the video and read the accompanying blog.
Here is a short into-blog written by Ann:
Introduction
And here is ‘Book Club’ for Chapter 1:
Chapter One
Happy Monday! If you want to follow Ann daily, she blogs here at A Holy Experience!
one thousand gifts
Posted: March 3, 2011 Filed under: Book Club, Books, On My Nightstand | Tags: book club 8 CommentsThis book was literally stalking me. Everywhere I turned it seemed that someone else I loved was loving the life-altering effects of Ann’s story. So, with curiosity peaked and a book void on my nightstand I hopped on Amazon and ordered her up.
It arrived.
I started reading.
I am having a hard time doing much else.
One of my sweet friends recently blogged about her experience with ‘One Thousand Gifts’ and mentioned the online Book Club offered by one of her favorite sites. I checked out the blog and I am hooked. I can only imagine how great their Book Club is! Though they officially started it weeks ago, we are lucky that it is within the blog and we can simply start when we want and follow at our own pace 🙂 But what fun is it to book club alone? So, all of my lovely friends out there: Join me? Please?
I would LOVE to read this book along with you. We don’t have to chit-chat if you don’t want (or we can). We don’t have to get ready (as in shower,make-up, clothing other than the sweats we live in and swear are workout clothes). We don’t have to fit ‘Book Club’ into our nutty, crazy, busy lives. Let’s just read parallel to each other. Watch the videos whenever we can grab a few minutes. Rest, knowing that we are not alone- that there is someone to talk to if we so chose- that we could be bound by such a beautiful thread through our very separate lives.
Not ready to bite the bullet…watch Ann’s introduction video below
Need more convincing…read chapter 1 here and see if your heart tells you YES!
Friends, I will be starting the book club (as in watching the video for chapter one and reading the accompanying blog) next Monday. I will post a link to it right here on my little old blog. So if you feel so inclined- visit me and click the link! My prayer is that God could use this weekly post to hold me accountable and maybe some of you too.
Throw me a shout out (a.k.a. a comment below) if your are gonna give it a go! I’d love just to know that I’m not alone too 🙂
Finished the Third
Posted: February 15, 2011 Filed under: On My Nightstand | Tags: books, loves 2 CommentsThe Girl with The Dragon Tattoo– Check!
The Girl Who Played with Fire– Check!
The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet’s Nest– CHECK!
Loved it! Loved all 3! I recommend the Millennium Series. The writing has a ton of detail. This was probably the hardest thing for me to adjust to as I read. I wanted to catalog every name and event. Thankfully I quickly realized that I could relax and that the important elements would find their way to the front of my mind. Each novel follows the previous one perfectly but they each have such a unique perspective that you really do feel like you read 3 different books. I still loved the 2nd one best (I think because it centers on Lisbeth’s character). The third was great and tied up the lose ends in such a satisfying way. This in my opinion is the brilliance behind doing a series. If you like a good page turner, some edgy characters, have any interest in investigative journalism, computer hacking, conspiracy within the government system… ya know- the stuff of great thrillers- you should take a time out- and READ!
Here’s a summary:
Beginning right after the events in The Girl Who Played With Fire, Lisbeth Salander is in critical condition at a Stockholm hospital under armed guard. She is the prime suspect in multiple murders. Journalist Mikael “Kalle” Blomkvist is determined to prove her innocence, as well as demonstrate her mistreatment at the hands of the state for her entire life.
I also just learned this…”Larsson, who was disgusted by sexual violence, witnessed the gang rape of a young girl when he was 15. The author never forgave himself for failing to help the girl, whose name was Lisbeth – like the young heroine of his books, herself a rape victim, which inspired the theme of sexual violence against women in his books.”
Something to talk about
Posted: February 3, 2011 Filed under: Books, Food, On My Nightstand, Workout | Tags: books, Kurt 2 CommentsAny book that got Kurt to do this is worthy of a post! 🙂
Thank you ‘View’ and Dr. Oz for peaking our interest so and introducing us to this cool book! I don’t do this often (ha-ha) but immediately following a TV interview with this author I got on Amazon.com and ordered this guy as fast as I could. I really like his philosophy that it takes small consistent changes in order to make huge changes in your health and quality of life. But I also just had to see how he backed up some of the claims he had made on national television.
The 4 Hour Body by Timothy Ferriss…
The 4-Hour Body is the result of an obsessive quest, spanning more than a decade, to hack the human body. It contains the collective wisdom of hundreds of elite athletes, dozens of MDs, and thousands of hours of jaw-dropping personal experimentation. From Olympic training centers to black-market laboratories, from Silicon Valley to South Africa, Tim Ferriss, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The 4-Hour Workweek, fixated on one life-changing question:
For all things physical, what are the tiniest changes that produce the biggest results?
Thousands of tests later, this book contains the answers for both men and women.
From the gym to the bedroom, it’s all here, and it all works.
YOU WILL LEARN (in less than 30 minutes each)
- How to prevent fat gain while binging (X-mas, holidays, weekends)
- How to increase fat-loss 300% with a few bags of ice
- How Tim gained 34 pounds of muscle in 28 days, without steroids, and in four hours of total gym time
- How to sleep 2 hours per day and feel fully rested
- How to produce 15-minute female orgasms
- How to triple testosterone and double sperm count
- How to go from running 5 kilometers to 50 kilometers in 12 weeks
- How to reverse “permanent” injuries
- How to add 150+ pounds to your lifts in 6 months
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