You know I love my historical fiction, but I enjoy nonfiction too! Below are several non fiction books that I have been reading (and enjoying!) lately!
I Guess I Haven’t Learned That Yet by Shauna Niequist
Part autobiography, part subtle life lessons she has learned along the way, Shuana’s warm and engaging prose sheds light on what it looks like to be in your 40s and uproot from the town that you’ve lived in your whole life to move across the country to New York City. There are so many new things that she and her family had to learn and adjust to life as new New Yorkers and she found herself saying, “I guess I haven’t learned that yet,” about numerous things in their new city. These lessons carry over into many instances in her life where she thought she knew something only to realize that no, she hasn’t learned it all yet!
The Home Edit by Clea Shearer and Joanna Teplin
I love a good organizing book! Almost nothing gets me as excited as a book on organizing- except for perhaps a brand new scheduler! While I know it’s not the case I think subconsciously I believe that having an organized home will give me hours of breathing room in my days- not completely true but having an organized home in which it is easy to find things certainly saves time! This book takes a look at a lot of celebrities’ home organizing projects, and therefore has a somewhat unattainable feel, ( my home would be perfectly organized too if I had custom shelving built into every room of my home!) I enjoyed the beautiful pictures as well as hearing of the author’s organizing style. A few of my key takeaways were: if you are going to invest in beautiful storage options make sure they are all cohesive otherwise while organized, your space will not look as pulled together as it actually is. And 2; I love their rainbow method of organizing and someday I am going to do this with all of my books!
Ultra Learning by Scott H. Young
In this book Young explains his method of ultra learning, a term he coined, to describe the process of throwing yourself into one project exhaustively. To be an Ultra Learner you choose one area of study and you learn about it exclusively and ceaselessly until you have it mastered. While I’m not sure this is a practical approach for everyone in every stage of life, who wishes to learn something new, I can appreciate how going all in on one subject exclusively can lead to connections and associations that otherwise might take much longer to create. I believe this book is definitely worth the read; there is bound to be a principle or 2 that you can then take and apply to your life to improve your learning skills!
How to Read a Book by Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren
I finally understand how people who have very, very, full lives can say that they have physically read a large number of books a week! In How to Read a Book , Adler and Van Doren show us how to approach reading a book for knowledge varies from one we are reading just for pleasure.the Authors show various outlines for how to read the important sections of a book so that we are getting the maximum out of a book with the minimal amount of time. I think this book would be well worth the time of anyone who is heading to college or is about to begin a project that will require hours upon hours of research.
Know Yourself, Know Your Money by Rachel Cruze
If you are familiar with Dave Ramsey and his baby step principles a lot of this book will be review… However, if you apply discretionary reading principles (perhaps the ones you learned in How to Read a Book) you will be well rewarded as to the psychological insight Cruze offers in this book as to why we spend money the way we do. We all grow up and absorb certain attitudes around money. Some of these attitudes are good, some are bad, some create good habits (saving money) for bad motives (scarcity mindset). No matter who you are or what your financial situation is, I think this is a great read to understand more about what shapes our relationship with one of the parts of our lives. Like it or not, money is a fundamental part of all of our lives, so spending a little time to ensure that we have a healthy relationship with it I believe is time well spent!
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