What was your favorite nonfiction read this year?
This book has been life changing! Previously I used to try to follow a paleo diet but I hate meat, and I always feel sluggish with eating a lot of meat for some reason. I was looking for a healthy way to eat that I could live with and I came across this book in the library. This book has changed my life. It pulled me out of a dark depression, and I have lost weight. I still follow the Weight Watchers point system, but as to WHAT to eat I try and follow a gluten-free vegan diet. Don’t get me wrong just the other day I went and had some french fries and a Pumpkin Pie Blizzard at Dairy Queen, a saint I am not, but on the WHOLE, I try to incorporate what she advocates for.
What nonfiction have you recommended the most this year?
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I Love Dannielle Laporte so hard. Personally, I feel she is brilliant, and her observations are right on point. I have all of her books and her planner, and I love them all. I read White Hot Truth while in the throes of a depressive episode. At the beginning I did not want to admit that I was depressed then I delayed in getting the proper help because I consider myself a spiritual self-help junkie and I was like well maybe I am just peeling back layers of stuff to get to a new improved Hillary underneath. Never Mind the fact I am diagnosed with bipolar I still wanted to do it all myself. It wasn’t until a friend dragged me into my shrink’s office that I admitted that I needed professional help. While I was recovering from that this book came out and I was like yes, yes, yes me too!! I tried to force everyone to read it, but not everyone is as woo-woo as I am.
What’s one topic or type of nonfiction you haven’t read enough of?
Looking at my books that I have read for this year I would have to say books on topics that have real-life meaning. For example, I have meant to read Evicted all year, but somehow I never seem to get around to the non-woo woo self-help books.
What are you hoping to get out of participating in Nonfiction November?
I am hoping to find new to me blogs and to get recommendations on serious nonfiction. I seem to have buried my head in the proverbial sand after trump won the election and shifted away from the political to the self-help genre. Nothing wrong with that I suppose, but still, I kinda feel guilty a there are so many people that are struggling, and they deserve to have their voice heard.
Good luck with Nonfiction November! Have you read Most Dangerous by Steve Sheinkin? It’s about the US government, but it’s really interesting.