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I am really getting bored with this lockdown. I have run out of things to read. Does anyone have any suggestions or recommendation?
It doesn’t have to be church or gospel related. It can be fiction or non-fiction.
Mystery, science fiction, history it doesn’t matter. It only has to be good & a “page turner”.
Please help me out of this funk.
I read the Doomsday Book by Connie Willis a while back. Kinda topical given the current climate. I just finished with this book I highly recommend: The Courage to be Disliked
By Ichiro Kishimi
Both of your books look interesting. Thank you. I’m in the middle of Untamed by Glennon Doyle. Really good stuff. I recently read Educated by Tara Westover. I think it was a good read. Untamed by The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt
Why We’re Polarized by Ezra Klein
You are not so Smart by David McRaney
Leaving the Witness: Exiting a Religion and Finding a Life by Amber Scorah
Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church by Rachel Held Evans
I like a lot of Malcolm Gladwell books.
I found that I can borrow a bunch of these from libraries. I have a city library and a county library that I can borrow audio books and kindle books. There is often a wait time, but if you put your name in for several, you should start getting some after a while. Look for an app called “Overdrive”. Then search for local libraries.
I might also recommend listening to podcasts. There are a bunch out there. I like podcasts and audio books in that I can keep “doing” things while I listen (exercise, mow the lawn, work on items around the house, painting, pulling weeds, driving, cleaning the house and garage – my list goes on and on).
I am also looking for some humor books to throw in just to help lighten my mood. LookingHard wrote:
I like a lot of Malcolm Gladwell books.
I second that! I really like him also, I think he is a great writer, although tells a story to make it interesting and can be biased a bit, but still makes for great reads.
LookingHard wrote:
I am also looking for some humor books to throw in just to help lighten my mood.
Some good thoughtful but humorous books I enjoyed:I Am America (and so can you) by Stephen Colbert
America Again – Re-Becoming the America We Never Weren’t by Stephen Colbert
Monty Python and Philosophy – Nudge Nudge, Think Think! edited by Gary Hardcastle and George Reisch
Serious: The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien is excellent.
Comedy:
The Princess Bride by William Goldman is the funniest book I have read. Hands down, no question, different universe hilarious. I literally laughed so hard I cried while reading it – and that never has happened previously or since with any other book. The movie did a good job of following the book, but the book provides MUCH more story detail – and the introduction is a masterpiece. The book is written in three narrative voices as if from a writer and an abridger, with Goldman supplying parenthetical commentary. It ought to be assigned in all Honors English Composition classes in high school or college.
I just remembered a book I read in the late ’60’s titled: Manchild in the Promised Land by Claude Brown For a kid that grew up in a predominantly white middle class town of less than 50,000 people, this was eye opening at the time.
The Author describes coming of age in the ghettos in New York at that time. I may revisit it again.
Thanks to everyone who replied. You gave me a lot of very good choices.
Just to clarify, it was the 1960’s not the 1860’s. 
Minyan Man wrote:
Just to clarify, it was the 1960’s not the 1860’s.
Phew. I was thinking you were referring to AD 60’s.
😆 LookingHard wrote:
I am also looking for some humor books to throw in just to help lighten my mood.
I recommend Bill Bryson’s “The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America”
As he says near the beginning: “I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to.”
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