Whats everyone reading now?

[jopaul]

Sharolyn,
Did you read "House Rules" by Jodi Picoult? It's a good book about a young man with autism. Here's the synopsis:

HOUSE RULES is about Jacob Hunt, a teenage boy with Asperger’s Syndrome. He’s hopeless at reading social cues or expressing himself well to others, and like many kids with AS, Jacob has a special focus on one subject – in his case, forensic analysis.

He’s always showing up at crime scenes, thanks to the police scanner he keeps in his room, and telling the cops what they need to do…and he’s usually right. But then one day his tutor is found dead, and the police come to question him. All of the hallmark behaviors of Asperger’s – not looking someone in the eye, stimulatory tics and twitches, inappropriate affect – can look a heck of a lot like guilt to law enforcement personnel -- and suddenly, Jacob finds himself accused of murder. HOUSE RULES looks at what it means to be different in our society, how autism affects a family, and how our legal system works well for people who communicate a certain way – but lousy for those who don’t.

I've loved all of the Jodi Picoult's that I've read (6 so far). House Rules is still my favorite.
Here's Jodi's website about it.
http://jodipicoult.com/house-rules.html
Have a great day! Tina

[LINDA RN]

WOW Tina you are at a nearly perfect BMI right now (25 is the goal)!
Congratulations!

[Joyful Friend]

House Rules is a good book.  I am going to get Road to Grace next.  I just finished Megan Hart's book All Fall Down.  There will be one to follow it.  I may have to wait a couple years.  It needs to be finished.      JF 

[jopaul]

Thanks Linda! I appreciate your positive input and info. 
Tina

[Sharolyn]

Tina, I haven't read House Rules. But, it sounds like a good read, tho maybe sad, too. There is so much discrimination for people with disabilities! Especially the ones who look "normal" but, don't behave that way. 

[jopaul]

Linda and Friends,
Did you see my BMI? It's currently 25.3. Woo Hoo! Gotta go do my happy dance.
Tina

[MsHeirloom]

Wow!  Double wow!!!  Congratulations, skinny!  Pam

[Joyful Friend]

Tina, Good for you!  Thanks to the one who suggested The Walk, Miles to Go, and Grace Walk.  Excellent reading.  Walk Across Egypt is finished.  I had my DH sing the song for me.  I had never heard it before.  Harbinger is sooo good.  I'm almost finished.  Thanks for good book suggestions.  I'm also tanning while reading.  I think cooler weather will be coming our way.    JF

[jopaul]

I read this book quite a while back. Currently, I'm watching the movie and remembering this incredible book. It's called Have A Little Faith by Mitch Albom. I had to share about this wonderful book and author. Here is the synopsis:

Albom (Mitchel David "Mitch" Albom) writes in the introduction to this book that the idea for it began with the request by Albert L. Lewis, his childhood rabbi, to write and deliver the eulogy when the time came for the rabbi's funeral. Albom agreed, contingent on an agreement that he could begin a series of interviews and conversations, in order to get to know Lewis as a man, not just as a rabbi.

Albom writes that his conversations with Lewis -- whom he refers to as the Reb, an affectionate term drawn from the Yiddish word for rabbi -- eventually led to an increased interest on Albom's part in the power and meaning of faith in a larger sense. In his hometown of Detroit, he forged a link with Pastor Henry Covington, an African-American Protestant minister at the I Am My Brother's Keeper Church. Covington, a past drug-addict, dealer, and ex-convict, was ministering to the needs of his down-and-out parishioners, in an urban church serving a largely homeless congregation, in a church so poor that the roof leaked when it rained.

Tina

[mrsj]

Just read "What difference do it make?" from the authors of "Same kind of different as me."
Some of those stories were really moving!  Some were a little convicting for me too.
My dh read it after me and he read it in one day!  Good book.
mrsj

[Chefsandra]

"Forks Over Knives" forgot author name,
and Eat to Live by Dr. joel Fuhrman

[chewy]

the starch solution by dr john mcdougall,prevent and reverse heart disease by dr caldwell esselstyn,forks over knives,race for life and senior fitness by dr ruth heidrich