Is there a book that changed your life? Or your life view?

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Oh the places you'll go

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Anonymous wrote:John Robbins - Diet for a New America

Twenty two years ago this completely changed the way I ate and I never went back.

did you become vegan?

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Anonymous wrote:A Lesson Before Dying.

I cried for days.

This did it for me. I love this book so much and could see so much of myself (my life) in so many of the characters

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Anonymous wrote:Being Mortal. It changed how I think we should deal with people who are nearing the end of our lives. It changed how I wrote my advance directive.

Loved this book. I will read anything Atul Gawande writes.

. I had to look to see I wrote the original answer. I did not, but I also found “Being Mortal” impactful. I think anyone dealing with aging parents should read it.

I also read his book on checklists and found that impacting how I view some things at work. My team is in the middle of reworking some key processes, and I created a literal checklist for us to use when developing a new software feature. Everyone has jumped on it as a useful tool, so I’m feeling pretty proud about that.

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A New Earth, E Tolle

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The Glass Castle

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Anonymous wrote:NeuroTribes. I have an autistic child and it helped put autism in the bigger picture. Such a great book.

Oh hell, my child just got officially diagnosed this fall. Thanks for this. (I’m on the spectrum myself but could use clues about from a parent’s perspective more).

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The Girl Who Sang to the Buffalo: a Child, an Elder and the Light From an Ancient Sky - something like The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down but more expansive and mind blowing information about the tribe on whose land I live. Native cultures are such a different speed from the way we live that it awes and depresses me that they are right here but are largely invisible to most White Americans.

Nature’s Best Hope by Doug Tallamy - this has changed the way I view my yard, what I do in it, what I plan to do in it and how I view habitat loss and climate change.

Shakespeare by Another Name - I never knew about the Shakespearean authorship controversy. Like fireworks in my mind to find out the probable author.

Does anyone else suffer from the condition of reading books, loving them, learning from them and then promptly forgetting the title? I have to start writing things down.

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A Brief History of Time, Stephen Hawking. I was 16. It inspired a fascination with the sciences that I had never previously known. Affected my choice of college and major, which is where I met my husband, and my career choices … not a stretch to say that my life would look very different if I hadn’t read it that summer.

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Anonymous wrote:The Girl Who Sang to the Buffalo: a Child, an Elder and the Light From an Ancient Sky - something like The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down but more expansive and mind blowing information about the tribe on whose land I live. Native cultures are such a different speed from the way we live that it awes and depresses me that they are right here but are largely invisible to most White Americans.

Nature’s Best Hope by Doug Tallamy - this has changed the way I view my yard, what I do in it, what I plan to do in it and how I view habitat loss and climate change.

Shakespeare by Another Name - I never knew about the Shakespearean authorship controversy. Like fireworks in my mind to find out the probable author.

Does anyone else suffer from the condition of reading books, loving them, learning from them and then promptly forgetting the title? I have to start writing things down.

Thank you for this detailed answer. The first book you mention, The Girl who Sang to the Buffalo I'm going to get.

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“The Blessing a B- “ Jewish-centric but incredibly useful for parents of tweens and teens. Changed my parenting for the better.

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This Naked Mind.

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Anonymous wrote:Oh the places you'll go

To think that I saw it on Mulberry St.

Read to me as a kid, own it now. I work downtown and I think of this book every time I see something interesting which is most days.

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In my early 20s I read "Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway." It really spoke to me and helped me get over my shyness and timidity, especially at work

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Anonymous wrote:The Girl Who Sang to the Buffalo: a Child, an Elder and the Light From an Ancient Sky - something like The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down but more expansive and mind blowing information about the tribe on whose land I live. Native cultures are such a different speed from the way we live that it awes and depresses me that they are right here but are largely invisible to most White Americans.

Nature’s Best Hope by Doug Tallamy - this has changed the way I view my yard, what I do in it, what I plan to do in it and how I view habitat loss and climate change.

Shakespeare by Another Name - I never knew about the Shakespearean authorship controversy. Like fireworks in my mind to find out the probable author.

Does anyone else suffer from the condition of reading books, loving them, learning from them and then promptly forgetting the title? I have to start writing things down.

Thank you for this detailed answer. The first book you mention, The Girl who Sang to the Buffalo I'm going to get.

You’re welcome. Be prepared, it’s wander. I enjoyed the wander, but it really takes its time. And evidently parts of it are fictionalized? I’m not sure how much an author needs to change/invent for it to be considered fiction, but it’s in the non-fiction area.