I am missing the boot sales we get to go to in summer, so made a
trip to the charity shop to pick up some books for myself and the boys. Someone
had given away shelves of sci-fi classics and I picked a few. Flowers for
Algernon by Daniel Keyes has been on my reading list for ages and it's the
first one I started with. I am really enjoying it.
The yellow book is Stone Mattress by Margaret Atwood who is one of my favourite writers, occasionally her books get too surreal for me, but this is a collection of short stories so should be digestible enough even for my short attention span.
The Gifts of Imperfection is by Brene Brown who was made famous by her TED Talk on the power of vulnerability. That got me interested enough to want to try the book.
The rest are also self-help books which I have a weakness for. The Barefoot Doctor's Handbook for the Urban Warrior is probably not I would have picked up, except that I opened it to take a look and came across the following:
"Death
As a warrior, you're already dead"
Something about that resonated so deeply with me and I have always had a longing to be a braver more fearless soul, so I decided to take this book home too.
The yellow book is Stone Mattress by Margaret Atwood who is one of my favourite writers, occasionally her books get too surreal for me, but this is a collection of short stories so should be digestible enough even for my short attention span.
The Gifts of Imperfection is by Brene Brown who was made famous by her TED Talk on the power of vulnerability. That got me interested enough to want to try the book.
The rest are also self-help books which I have a weakness for. The Barefoot Doctor's Handbook for the Urban Warrior is probably not I would have picked up, except that I opened it to take a look and came across the following:
"Death
As a warrior, you're already dead"
Something about that resonated so deeply with me and I have always had a longing to be a braver more fearless soul, so I decided to take this book home too.
The paints are part of a little paint set stored in a lovely
yellow tin. I really wanted to keep it, but in the end I gave it to Little Lady
who will make good use of it.
