The Bookworm’s Thread 2018

VfM4meplse

Book 7:



7/10. I read this book in several different months, and my opinion of the book varied accordingly. The first part in particular was compelling, because it actually helps people understand the human side of addiction. The outcome was of course tragic.

People that think drugs should be legalised because they are "harmless" should think again: the cold hard reality is very different.

Wednesday2000

Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers - Robert M. Sapolsky.

It will be my 15th book this year.:)

Now in a third edition, Robert M. Sapolsky's acclaimed and successful Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers features new chapters on how stress affects sleep and addiction, as well as new insights into anxiety and personality disorder and the impact of spirituality on managing stress. As Sapolsky explains, most of us do not lie awake at night worrying about whether we have leprosy or malaria. Instead, the diseases we fear - and the ones that plague us now - are illnesses brought on by the slow accumulation of damage, such as heart disease and cancer. When we worry or experience stress, our body turns on the same physiological responses that an animal's does, but we do not resolve conflict in the same way - through fighting or fleeing. Over time, this activation of a stress response makes us literally sick. Combining cutting-edge research with a healthy dose of good humour and practical advice, Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers explains how prolonged stress causes or intensifies a range of physical and mental afflictions, including depression, ulcers, colitis, heart disease, and more. It also provides essential guidance to controlling our stress responses. This new edition promises to be the most comprehensive and engaging one yet.

gettingtheresometime

Has anyone read 'Sometimes I lie' by Alice Feeney?


I've just finished this & although I enjoyed it, the ending left me so confused I had to google it - and it appears I'm not alone!


In case anyone does want to read it, can people who want to explain the ending to me pm me ?


Thanks

Wednesday2000

I am about 1/3 through the zebra book, it's quite scientific so it's taking me a while to get through.:o

I ended up reading the new Ruth Galloway book instead, The Dark Angel. I didn't realise that it was out already. I really enjoyed it as usual, although I read that some people thought it was too much like a soap opera, rather than an archaeology thriller.

gettingtheresometime wrote: »

Has anyone read 'Sometimes I lie' by Alice Feeney?


I've just finished this & although I enjoyed it, the ending left me so confused I had to google it - and it appears I'm not alone!


In case anyone does want to read it, can people who want to explain the ending to me pm me ?


Thanks

I just bought it as it's looks interesting and only £1.99 at the moment. I will PM you after I read it, it might be a while as I have a stack of books to read!:D

gettingtheresometime

Wednesday2000 wrote: »

I am about 1/3 through the zebra book, it's quite scientific so it's taking me a while to get through.:o

I ended up reading the new Ruth Galloway book instead, The Dark Angel. I didn't realise that it was out already. I really enjoyed it as usual, although I read that some people thought it was too much like a soap opera, rather than an archaeology thriller.



I just bought it as it's looks interesting and only £1.99 at the moment. I will PM you after I read it, it might be a while as I have a stack of books to read!:D

I did enjoy it, don't get me wrong, but in some respects the ending is the most important part of the book & when you're left confused it does take the gloss off it!

Just ordered Still Me by JoJo Moyes which is the 3rd book in the me before you triology from the library.....apparently I'm 26th in the queue so it might be some time before I get to read it :rotfl:

VfM4meplse

Book 8:



8/10. A short book, but I read it slowly to make sure I didn't miss out on any of its subtleties. Well worth the time taken, it's up there with Animal Farm for allegory.

Serendipitious

Sometimes a book won't let you go afterwards, and this is one of those. It's based on a true story (one which I was completely unaware of until reading this novel) and it unfolds through a sequence of various characters, all with their own stories to tell.

I finished it last night and have just spent over an hour on various websites in an attempt to glean the reasons why those events ever took place. Very thought-provoking.

I haven't gone into detail as I read it with no idea whatsoever as to what was to be revealed, and I don't want to pre-empt it for anyone else.

pollypenny

I have just enjoyed Frank Gardiner's first novel - The Crisis.

4/5 because if the occasional cliche but a real page turner, with many twists. Focused on MI 6.

Wednesday2000

I have read 21 books this year now as I read a few short ones over the past few days.

One was called Unwind - about managing stress.

Another one was called Make Your Bed: Small things that can change your life... and maybe the world, the man who wrote it was a Navy SEAL and it was quite interesting.

Blackcatsreturns

Thank you to Gettingthere for the recommendation of Life Death and Vanilla Slices. I'm really enjoying it. Some bits have made me laugh out loud. The main character is the same age as me - a 1960s child so her childhood memories are very familiar.
I recently gave up reading Faking Friends. It started very well but the plot became far fetched and it turned into a "who can be the most horrible?" By half way through I had no empathy for any of the characters.