I recommend sharing a summary of books I’ve been reading recently and adding it to your collection.
Hello friends! How was the weekend? I spent it in Phoenix for the Liv dance competition. Her team did an amazing job and we enjoyed our family brunch so I’m sneaking up for a Rugley class.
In today’s post I wanted to share a little summary of a book I’ve read recently. After a bit of a drought, I recently made more time to read. (I was also a bit lax about studying Spanish and IHP 3, but that’s how I go from time to time.) Most of them are home runs and I’m excited to share these with you! If you have a great book you’re reading now, let me know. Soon, I sat on the cruise ship balcony with coffee and books and was very prepared.
ADHD is great By Penn Holderness
I highly recommend listening to the audio version and listening to this. I’ve been a longtime fan of the Holderness family and I was intrigued by this book because I feel confident that everything I saw online has ADHD. The pressure of procrastination because I always want to learn (and spend the whole night or 8-10 hours of blocks to complete something), constantly switching hobby (remember flamenco dance and ukulele?), a list of hundreds of business ideas, losing my attention, feeling too much extroverted.
This book It’s so fun and true to see what it really is like to live with ADHD. Penn Holderness shares his personal story and shows that having ADHD is not something that is “fixed.” Instead, he talks about how it becomes real strength when you learn to work in your brain. It’s interesting, eye-catching, and very encouraging for anyone who’s ever felt their brain behave a little differently.
Also, ADHD is really a spectrum and honestly, I don’t know if I have it after reading this book. (Another testimony to the fact that doctors provide dios rather than Google or social media.) But I still enjoy it and it’s a great reminder on how to support friends and family with ADHD. 9/10
from Amazon:
You live in a world not designed for you. A world where you are expected to sit still, stay quiet and focus. Because of your brain wiring, you can feel like you’re failing in life. But you haven’t failed. you are wonderful.
Award-winning content creators Kim and Penholderness are unfortunately on a mission to restart the idea of ”attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder.” As always, they don’t just study ADHD, so they look in the mirror and do it. They live it.
Penn was in college when he was diagnosed with ADHD, but there were signs there that the brain he had been there since he was a child had a slightly different brain. Rather than viewing a diagnosis as a curse or succumbing to feelings of inadequacy or failure, he took a different approach.
They often draw on the passionate insights and expertise of physicians, researchers and experts. Kim and Penn provide fun and easy to digest advice and explanations.
What is it like to actually live with the brain with ADHD?
Pitfalls, sob stories, how to find humor with incredible victory (like the time they won an astonishing race!)
How to tackle the challenges that ADHD presents is presented with a positive outlook.
Target tools and techniques to help you achieve your unique strengths.
A fun extra like ADHD Bingo, Ode formula for cargo pants, and what the world would look like if Adhders were in charge.
Take it from the pen: Having ADHD can be scary, but it comes with incredible benefits such as creativity, hyperfocus, energy and more. You might say it’s a bit great. Whether you have ADHD or want to support someone else on their journey, this is the guide you need to create the life you want
Things I can’t say Kelly Rimmer
This will completely pull your heart. It overturns between present day and World War II Poland as a woman reveals her grandmother’s hidden past. It was a powerful combination of love, loss and resilience, and the ending wasn’t what I expected. It was even more heartfelt and beautiful. If you like dual timeline stories and historical fiction, you’ll love this. 9/10
from Amazon:
In 1942, Europe remains the relentless grip of war. A young woman speaks her wedding vows, over the tent in a refugee camp that she calls her hometown. It is a decision that will change her fate, a lie that will remain buried until the next century.
As she was nine years old, Alina Ziac knew she was going to marry her best friend, Thomas. Now engaged by 15, Alina is indifferent to reports of Nazi soldiers on the Polish border, believing that her neighbor poses no real threat, and Thomas believes in her dreams instead of the day she returns from university in Warsaw and marries. But little by little, the injustice caused by brutal injustice, the Nazi occupation becomes established, and Alina’s small rural village, its family, is separated by fear and hatred.
Then, as the fabric of their lives is slowly picked, Thomas disappears. Alina was measuring the time between visits from her beloved, but now she measures the space between hope and despair, waiting for words from Thomas, avoiding the attention of soldiers patrol her parents’ farm. But for now, even deafening silence is desirable over sorrow.
Tehran lion woman By Mahjong Kamari
Iran was set in the 1950s and 1970s. Tehran lion woman It takes life. The book is exquisitely written and explores the themes of quiet but intense acts of resistance that can shape the path of a woman. If you like it Kit Runner and A thousand wonderful suns,I’d recommend that you take this one. It makes the writing appealing and engaging, and has really strong and deep character development. This is the type of book that you realize you are thinking about characters after turning the final page. 9/10
from Amazon:
In the 1950s, seven-year-old Ellie was forced to move to a small downtown home by Ellie and her mother until her father’s untimely death. In lonely, Ellie is borne in the brunt of her mother’s endless frustration, and her friend dreams to alleviate her isolation.
Luckily, on the first day of school, she meets Homa, a kind girl with a brave and uncontrollable spirit. Together, two girls learn to play games, cook in the stone kitchen of a warm house in Homa, wander around the colorful food stalls of the Grand Bazaar, and share their ambitions to become “Lion Woman.”
However, their happiness becomes confused when Ellie and her mother are given the opportunity to return to their previous bourgeois lives. Now, memories of Homa of Ellie, a popular student at Iran’s Best Girls’ High School, are beginning to fade. But a few years later, her sudden reappearance in Ellie’s privileged world changes the course of both their lives.
Together, the two young women age and pursue meaningful future goals. But as Iran’s political turmoil advances to breakpoints, one earth-smashing betrayal has great consequences.
Get ready if luck arises By Ina Garten
I’ve been waiting to read this book forever Finally, it took me a while to listen to the audio version. It far exceeded all my expectations. It was a warm and honest reflection on how she followed her intuition, how she took bold risks and often built an iconic career without formal planning. From her work at the White House to launching the barefoot Contessa brand, it is packed with her unexpected opportunities, behind the scenes challenges, and stories of relationships that shaped her journey.
I’ve been a fan of INA for years, but I learned to cook from watching the Food Network when we were newlyweds and living in Fayetteville, North Carolina. It was wild to me knowing that she had shopped on the same committee (Braggfeet!) while she was also learning how to cook…but she would be the one who taught me from the screen in a few decades. It’s full of fun stories and it’s even better to hear her say to them in her own voice. It reminded me that you don’t always need to make concrete plans. You are just loyal to yourself and ready when luck arises. I loved it. 10/10
from Amazon:
Here, for the first time, Ina Garten presents an intimate, interesting and inspiring account of her incredible journey. INA’s gift is to make everything look simple, but all her achievements have been the result of hard work, bold choices and exquisite attention to detail. With her unmistakable voice (no one tells a story like INA), she brings her past and her process back to life with high-psychic, unprotected memoirs that document decades of personal challenges, adventures (and misfortunes), and unexpected career twists.
From discovering the love of her life from a difficult childhood, to marrying him during Jeffrey and college, to answering ads for specialist food stores in Washington, D.C., to the owner of a barefoot contessa shop, author of Bestsell cookbooks, an artistic television host, a television host who adorns the explosive trails of INA, now she invites them to experience the story in vivid detail and share the important life lessons she has learned.
So tell me, Friend: What are you reading now? Share your products!
xoxo
Gina
