Hi Everyone,
We encourage you to recommend any book you loved reading. If you have one, kindly indicate the name of the book, author or maybe write a brief description about the book through the comments of this post. If you can add the link about the book, that would also be cool!
Thank you very much!
Scott
Suggestions:
Ben's Friends Recommendation:
This book is a compilation of patient tips and stories to help others patients and loved ones get through this difficult time in life. Ben’s Friends is a “little Internet miracle” and we plan on continuing for many more years.
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Ann A's Recommendations:
1. How We Do Harm: A Doctor Breaks Ranks About Being Sick in America
How We Do Harm exposes the underbelly of healthcare today—the over treatment of the rich, the under treatment of the poor, the financial conflicts of interest that determine the care that physicians’ provide, insurance companies that don’t demand the best (or even the least expensive) care, and pharmaceutical companies concerned with selling drugs, regardless of whether they improve health or do harm.
2.If You Have to Wear an Ugly Dress, Learn to Accessorize: Guidance, Inspiration, and Hope for Women with Lupus, Scleroderma, and Other Autoimmune Illnesses
Chronic illness forces you to slow down and reexamine your values, your choices, and the way you define yourself. In If You Have to Wear an Ugly Dress, Learn to Accessorize, Linda McNamara and Karen Kemper offer companionship throughout the process, helping you face your challenges with dignity and grace.
We all witness, in advertising and on supermarket shelves, the fierce competition for our food dollars. In this engrossing exposé, Marion Nestle goes behind the scenes to reveal how the competition really works and how it affects our health. The abundance of food in the United States--enough calories to meet the needs of every man, woman, and child twice over--has a downside. Our over-efficient food industry must do everything possible to persuade people to eat more--more food, more often, and in larger portions--no matter what it does to waistlines or well-being.
4. Fat Chance: Beating the Odds Against Sugar, Processed Food, Obesity, and Disease
Robert Lustig’s 90-minute YouTube video “Sugar: The Bitter Truth”, has been viewed more than three million times. Now, in this much anticipated book, he documents the science and the politics that has led to the pandemic of chronic disease over the last 30 years.
5. Sugar Has 56 Names: A Shopper's Guide (A Penguin Special from Hudson Street Press)
Sugar hides behind many names in ingredient lists for some of the most common foods on our supermarket shelves. Some, like "evaporated cane juice" might be easy enough to puzzle out -- but what about the less obvious ones, like "agave"? In Sugar Has 56 Names, bestselling author of Fat Chance Rob Lustig provides a list of of ingredient names that food manufacturers use to disguise the sugar content of their products, as well as a do/do not eat list of foods. Concise and direct, Sugar Has 56 Names is an essential tool for smart shopping.
Mindy Wolff's Recommendation:
1.Dubois' Lupus Erythematosus and Related Syndromes Dubois' Lupus Erythematosus and Related Syndromes
Recognized for more than 45 years as the definitive text in the field, Dubois' Lupus Erythematosus and Related Syndromes strikes the perfect balance betweenbasic science and clinical expertise, providing the evidence-based findings, treatment consensuses, and practical clinical information you need toconfidently diagnose and manage SLE.
Everhope's Recommendation:
1. What I Learned Lying Down - Hope for the Chronically Ill
What I Learned Lying Down is an intimate account of the author’s journey through the devastating effects of lupus. Out of her experiences, she writes a moving story from more than a decade of chronic illness.
Siskiyosis Recommendations:
1. A Decade of Lupus: Selections from Lupus News
2. The Sun Is My Enemy: One Woman's Victory over Mysterious and Dreaded Disease - LUPUS
Faladora's Recommendation:
1. How to Be Sick: A Buddhist-Inspired Guide for the Chronically Ill and Their Caregivers
This life-affirming, instructive, and thoroughly inspiring book is a must-read for anyone who is - or who might one day be - sick. It can also be the perfect gift of guidance, encouragement, and uplifting inspiration to family, friends, and loved ones struggling with the many terrifying or disheartening life changes that come so close on the heels of a diagnosis of a chronic condition or life-threatening illness. Authentic and graceful, How to be Sick reminds us of our endless inner freedom, even under high degrees of suffering and pain.
Pleasure-Reading Books:
Ballerina's Recommendations:
1. Cathy Lamb's Books:
A Different Kind of Normal
Henry's Sisters
First day of the Rest of My Life
The Last Time I Was Me
Such A Pretty Face
Julia's Chocolates
Henry's Sisters Only Family Can Bring You Home
2. Still Alice
Still Alice is a compelling debut novel about a 50-year-old woman's sudden descent into early onset Alzheimer's disease, written by first-time author Lisa Genova, who holds a Ph. D in neuroscience from Harvard University.
3. Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard
Breaking Night is the stunning memoir of a young woman who at age fifteen was living on the streets, and who eventually made it into Harvard.
4. I Shall Live: Surviving Against All Odds, 1939-1945 (A Touchstone book)
One of many remarkable stories in the author's life during World War II. With his strong determination to live, he survived the S.S. hunt for Jews, five concentration camps, and the Sachsenhausen death march.
Nates Tired Mom Recommendation:
1. Mary Higgin Clark's Books
Daddy's Gone a Hunting
I've Got You Under My Skin
I'll Walk Alone (Basic)
The Lost Years
Ann A's Recommendations:
1. I Am Number Four: The Lost Files: The Last Days of Lorien
In this stunning 144-page prequel novella to the New York Times bestselling I Am Number Four series, discover what really happened in the final days of the doomed planet from the eyes of Sandor—who would go on to become the reluctant Cêpan to Number Nine.
2. The Southern Sisters Mystery
4. The Will Trent Series 6-Book Bundle: Triptych, Fractured, Undone, Broken, Fallen, Criminal
New York Times bestselling author Karin Slaughter is acclaimed for her novels of heart-stopping suspense, edge-of-your-seat intrigue, and richly imagined characters. And when Slaughter created detective Will Trent she broke the mold. While displaying an uncanny knack for reading people, solving puzzles, and cracking cases at the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, Detective Trent navigates the varied relationships with the women in his life: vice cop Angie Polaski, supervisor Amanda Wagner, partner Faith Mitchell, and Dr. Sara Linton.
5. Lorien Legacies (Series) by Pittacus Lore
6. Touchstones: Essays on Spirituality and Healing
Throughout TOUCHSTONES, there is something that will resonate with the reader and touch those wounded places that need a soft space to land. Robin creates a healing landscape with her stories and places it on the heart as a salve that mends us in the broken places.
7. How Can You NOT Laugh at a Time Like This?: Reclaim Your Health with Humor, Creativity, and Grit
Under the stress of multiple illnesses and constant health ''care,'' Ulbrich one day snapped and became the Singing Patient. She channeled her hard won victories, set about reclaiming her health, and penned How Can You NOT Laugh at a Time Like This?, a collection of short, inspiring, funny essays that help people thrive and celebrate life despite illness.
Siskiyousis' Recommendations:
1. Confessions of an Rx Drug Pusher
As a former sales representative in the pharmaceutical industry for several years, Olsen learned firsthand how an unprecedented number of lethal drugs are unleashed in the United States market, but her most heartrending education into the dangers of antidepressants would come as a victim and ultimately, as a survivor. Rigorously researched and documented, Confessions of an Rx Drug Pusher is a moving human drama that shares one woman’s unforgettable journey of faith, forgiveness, and healing.
2. A Yellow Raft in Blue Water: A Novel
Michael Dorris has crafted a fierce saga of three generations of Indian women, beset by hardships and torn by angry secrets, yet inextricably joined by the bonds of kinship. Starting in the present day and moving backward, the novel is told in the voices of the three women: fifteen-year-old part-black Rayona; her American Indian mother, Christine, consumed by tenderness and resentment toward those she loves; and the fierce and mysterious Ida, mother and grandmother whose haunting secrets, betrayals, and dreams echo through the years, braiding together the strands of the shared past.
3. All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, Book 1)
The national bestseller and the first volume in Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy, All the Pretty Horses is the tale of John Grady Cole, who at sixteen finds himself at the end of a long line of Texas ranchers, cut off from the only life he has ever imagined for himself. With two companions, he sets off for Mexico on a sometimes idyllic, sometimes comic journey to a place where dreams are paid for in blood.
4. The Road
The Road is the profoundly moving story of a journey. It boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in which the father and his son, "each the other's world entire," are sustained by love. Awesome in the totality of its vision, it is an unflinching meditation on the worst and the best that we are capable of: ultimate destructiveness, desperate tenacity, and the tenderness that keeps two people alive in the face of total devastation.
5. The Sword of Truth, Boxed Set I, Books 1-3: Wizard's First Rule, Blood of the Fold ,Stone of Tears
Terry Goodkind, author of the brilliant bestsellers Wizard's First Rule and Stone of Tears, has created his most masterful epic yet, a sumptuous feast of magic and excitement replete with the wonders of his unique fantasy vision.
6. Life of Pi
The son of a zookeeper, Pi Patel has an encyclopedic knowledge of animal behavior and a fervent love of stories. When Pi is sixteen, his family emigrates from India to North America aboard a Japanese cargo ship, along with their zoo animals bound for new homes.
The Kite Runner is a novel about friendship and betrayal, and about the price of loyalty. It is about the bonds between fathers and sons, and the power of fathers over sons—their love, their sacrifices, and their lies. Written against a backdrop of history that has not been told in fiction before, The Kite Runnerdescribes the rich culture and beauty of a land in the process of being destroyed. But through the devastation, Khaled Hosseini offers hope: through the novel’s faith in the power of reading and storytelling, and in the possibilities he shows us for redemption.
Jen's Recommendation
1. Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
In Illusions, the unforgettable follow-up to his phenomenal bestseller Jonathan Livingston Seagull,Richard Bach takes to the air to discover the ageless truths that give our souls wings: that people don't need airplanes to soar...that even the darkest clouds have meaning once we lift ourselves above them... and that messiahs can be found in the unlikeliest places--like hay fields, one-traffic-light midwestern towns, and most of all, deep within ourselves.
It is simply her context for understanding, but it could apply easily to a more Christian basis or simply a thought-process regarding the disease and your sense of self within it. A must-read, and amazingly thorough although it’s brief (great because you can read the whole thing without being totally exhausted!)It’s also inspiring to me that she wrote it while battling with the extreme fatigue she has (in fact, one of the hurtful/unhelpful comments she mentions is, “you can’t be that sick if you’re writing a book.” What about the reverse, a supportive “wow, I’m so amazed you can press onward through all your fatigue and suffering to share wisdom with others!” Is it that hard to be nice? Is it really so hard to get that we are fighters and winners in a hard battle? I would imagine that comment arises from jealousy and a sense of under-accomplishment within their own full health… But I digress.)
Happy reading!