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| "Advice Not Given: A Guide to Getting Over Yourself" by Mark Epstein Buy this book Do you need some help with your bad attitude during this endless winter? Turn to Mark Epstein's "Advice Not Given," which blends personal anecdotes with a primer on the Buddhist eightfold path. Epstein is a psychotherapist and practitioner of Buddhist meditation who explains principles such as "right view" and "right concentration" — things you can use to get through the day, the snowstorm or whatever obstacle you have in your path. But Epstein argues that those temporary roadblocks are usually not the problem. We are our own main obstacle. “There is no reason for the untutored ego to hold sway over our lives, no reason for a permanently selfish agenda to be our bottom line,” Epstein writes in his introduction. It's a quick, smart and enlightening read. And you won't feel like a failure if you don't adopt daily meditation at the end. -Stephanie Curtis | ||
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| The most frequently challenged books of 2017 Jay Asher's "Thirteen Reasons Why" and Sherman Alexie's "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian" top the American Library Association's list of "challenged" books from 2017. The list also includes Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird" and Angie Thomas' "The Hate U Give." More | ||
| "Sharp" is a dinner party you want to be at "Sharp" by Michelle Dean Buy this book Michelle Dean's new compendium of outspoken women is as stimulating and insightful as its roster of guests — ten writers, from Dorothy Parker to Pauline Kael, who pulled no punches on the page. More | ||
| 5 insights from Comey's memoir: Ex-FBI chief blasts Trump as mob-like "A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership" by James Comey Buy this book In "A Higher Loyalty," James Comey says the president "is unethical, and untethered to truth and institutional values. ... His leadership is transactional, ego driven and about personal loyalty." More | ||
| Jo Nesbo gives "Macbeth" a gritty, action-packed update "Macbeth" by Jo Nesbo Buy this book The latest installment of the Hogarth Shakespeare series sees crime novelist Nesbo taking on the Scottish Play in an adaptation that comes alive the farther he strays from Shakespeare's original. More | ||
| Feminist health guide "Our Bodies, Ourselves" will stop publishing The groundbreaking book was first released in the early 1970s. It gave women frank information about then-taboo topics like masturbation, birth control and female sexual anatomy. More | ||
| Poetry Friday: The natural world To celebrate National Poetry Month, The Thread is showcasing three poems from local independent publishing houses every Friday. More | ||
| "No one meant to be in my office": A divorce lawyer's tips on staying together "If You're In My Office, It's Already Too Late" by James Sexton Buy this book James Sexton has seen the demise of more than a thousand marriages -- which inspired him to write a new book on how to keep it together. His advice? Keep communicating, and be painfully honest. More | ||
| The billion-dollar romance fiction industry has a diversity problem No black author has ever won its top prize. NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks about the issue with Alisha Rai, author of the "Forbidden Hearts" series. More | ||
| A Confederate contemplates her complicity "Varina" by Charles Frazier Buy this book Charles Frazier was done writing about the Civil War after his award-winning novel "Cold Mountain." Then he discovered the true story of the first lady of the Confederacy. More | ||
| On the pressures of being "the only one" "The Heads of the Colored People" by Nafissa Thompson-Spires Buy this book Nafissa Thompson-Spires' new story collection is full of characters coping with being not just black in a white world — but the only black person in their worlds. She says that's a hard role to fill. More | ||
| "Circe" gives the witch of "The Odyssey" a new life "Circe" by Madeleine Miller Buy this book Madeleine Miller's lush, gold-lit new novel is told from the perspective of Circe, the sorceress whose brief appearance in "The Odyssey" becomes just one moment in a longer, more complex life. More | ||
| "You're rooting for the good guys, and you can just smell and breathe the bad guys" "Gods of Howl Mountain" by Taylor Brown Buy this book Bookseller Anne Water recommends a "great, atmospheric story that sucks you into the world" of Appalachia. More | ||
| A true story about schizophrenia "A Kind of Mirraculas Paradise" by Sandra Allen Buy this book Writer Sandra Allen received a fat manila envelope in the mail one day, filled with a stack of yellowed paper about a half inch thick. Allen had always heard about "crazy" Uncle Bob, but the manuscript they read that day opened up a window into the complex mind of someone living with mental illness. More | ||
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