A successful neurosurgeon with seemingly everything going for him, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with lung cancer at age 36. Before the disease claimed his life he kept a journal – a journal that became When Breath Becomes Air. In the early chapters, where Kalanithi tells of his work as a neurosurgeon, I got a sense of the life and death …
I received a complementary copy of this book for review purposes. The opinions are completely my own based on my experience. Mike Love does not hold back in his book “Good Vibrations: My Life as a Beach Boy”. Love gives a thorough account of the band’s 5+ decade run. “The specific details on the origins of the Beach Boys—who played …
“All of us yearn for happiness and love, and sometimes we find it,” writes Marianne Willamson in her new book Tears to Triumph: The Spiritual Journey from Suffering to Enlightenment. “Yet most of us are visited at some point by sorrow as well. A relationship, a job, a particular circumstance brought us happiness—but then something went wrong.” Can you relate? …
I received a complementary copy of this book for review purposes. The opinions are completely my own based on my experience. The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor has been of interest to me for many years. I have seen two movies on this fateful day in American history (the best being 1970’s Tora Tora Tora). I took a Home of …
I received a complementary copy of this book for review purposes. The opinions are completely my own based on my experience. Anita Moorjani gets it. After a near death experience (NDE) that she describes in vivid detail in her first book, Dying to be Me, she came to the conclusion that “being in that state made me realize that I …
I received an advanced, complementary copy of this book for review purposes. The opinions are completely my own based on my experience. “The practice of being on a spiritual path isn’t about being the best meditator, or the kindest possible person, or the most enlightened,” author Gabrielle Bernstein writes early in her new book “The Universe Has Your Back: Transform …
Can a national television anchor find some semblance of peace through the practice of meditation? Dan Harris answers this question and more in his book 10% Happier: How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found Self-Help That Actually Works–A True Story I liked how real Harris is in the book. A prominent …
I received a complementary copy of this book for review purposes. The opinions are completely my own based on my experience. One of the best books I read and reviewed in 2014 was Dr Penny Sartori’s The Wisdom of Near Death Experiences. Dr Sartori has followed up this work with a new book featuring more of her findings, What is …
I received a complementary copy of this book for review purposes. The opinions are completely my own based on my experience. Do you consider yourself to be a creative yet sensitive person? I do, so that’s why I was drawn to Doreen Virtue’s new book – The Courage to be Creative: How to Believe in Yourself, Your Dreams and Ideas, …
“Draw a different frame around the same set of circumstances and new pathways come into view,” say authors Rosamund Stone Zander and Benjamin Zander in their book The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life. This brought to mind one of my favorite quotes by the late Wayne Dyer, ““If you change the way you look at things, the …