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[Denise]

I'm reading And After by Sarah Lyons Fleming.

[Becky]

started on the kindle.

[Duks]

After taking some time off reading, I got back on track and started today.

[Jillyn]

I'm currently reading

[Suzy]

Cinder by Marissa Meyer :)

[Alexis]

Game And Percy Jackson's Greek Gods

[Becky]

and on my kindle

[Steve]

Scarlet by Marissa Meyer

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and

[Nicholas]

Currently reading

[Tracy]

Nicholas wrote: "Currently reading "

I just finished Cinder Nicholas. Hope you enjoy.

[Becky]

I haven't read cinder or scarlet can't wait to

[Tracy]

Becky wrote: "I haven't read cinder or scarlet can't wait to"

I am waiting on Scarlet from the library and I hear its better than Cinder.

[Becky]

i read a bit of it before and i thought cinder was a cool concept.

[Tracy]

It is Becky and it took me some time to get into it but the end is when it starts going good.

[Becky]

cool will keep that in mind lol

[Fiona (Titch)]

Life on the Mississippi - Mark Twain

[-RininTa-]

Currently read . It has a nice story :)

[Becky]

and

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Am mostly focusing on . But I am dabbling in and .

[Kate (kateexplainslit)]

Currently reading: Trouble by Non Pratt

[Melissa]

Reading . Liking it so far... :-)

[Steve]

I am currently reading and loving Marissa Meyer CRES

[Addie]

Steve wrote: "I am currently reading and loving Marissa Meyer CRES"

I ♥ That book! It is an AMAZING series!

[Fiona (Titch)]

I've read and finished Play Me #1: Play Me Wild & Play Me #2: Play Me Hot - Tracy Wolff. Now I am reading Play Me #3: Play Me Hard - Tracy Wolff.

[Becky]

and which I am almost done with

[Duks]

I don't know why it took me so long to read this !

[Fiona (Titch)]

I've read and finished Play Me #1: Play Me Wild, Play Me #2: Play Me Hot, Play Me #3: Play Me Hard, Play Me #4: Play Me Real and Play Me #5: Play Me Right - Tracy Wolff. I loved the characters and the steamy scenes. Worth buying in December if you like Erotica/Romance kinda books. Be warned they are in 5 installments as well.

Now I am reading Three Little Words - Maggie Wells.

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Now I'm reading Terry Pratchett's Mort

[Fiona (Titch)]

Finished Three Little Words - Maggie Wells. Now I am reading The City of Malgar - Rosemary Lynch. Looking forward to reading this trilogy.

[Jillyn]

I'm finishing up and then starting on

[Nicholas]

Currently reading

[Erica]

I current reading but the swedish version very funny and amazing book

[Rachel]

Just started and it's a lot of fun. If you like a good ghost story, try this one.

[N-mila]

Just started two books and I hope I can finish them by the end of next week, or maybe later lol :p, depends on my schedule:

and

[Fiona (Titch)]

Well after having this book for OVER a year (which is when I started to read it lol). I have now finished the amazing and interesting The Heartstone Odyssey - Arvan Kumar. You have to read this book.

Now I am still reading The City of Malgar - Rosemary Lynch and also listening to The Husband's Secret - Liane Moriarty.

[Becky]

[Erica]

Just finnished I read it in swedish.

I just begin to read 4th book of my favourite swedish author Lars Kepler..

[Becky]

started hope I like it and

[Jillyn]

I'm reading

[Nicholas]

Currently reading

[Raymond]

The Neurotic’s Guide To Avoiding Enlightenment by Chris Niebauer, Ph.D. – Book Review
Reviewed by Raymond Mathiesen
4 out of 5 stars

Deep thoughts about the self and self-improvement…

Even a quick look at the self-help shelf at any bookstore will quickly reveal that the industry is booming and that most of us seem to have a secret desire to ‘be a better person’. We search for that magic formula which will give us enlightenment, hopefully the quicker the better. But is enlightenment, as we understand it, really achievable? If we did have a better life what would it be like? Would it be very different from our current life? Even more, what if we found that this ‘self’, which we are so bent on improving, turned out not to really exist, to be a myth, an unreliable creation of our own brain? Can modern neuroscience throw any light on this subject, and if so do you have to be an expert to understand it? If you are confused already get ready to have many of your ideas challenged by Chris Niebauer’s thought provoking book The Neurotics Guide To Avoiding Enlightenment: How The Left-brain Plays Unending Games Of Self-improvement.

Many self-help books are written from a New Age / Eastern Mysticism perspective and in a way Niebauer’s book fits into this category. Niebauer is strongly influenced both by the mid twentieth century author Alan Watts and the contemporary writer Eckhart Tolle. Watts wrote on a variety of Eastern Religions including Zen, Hinduism and Taoism and Tolle is greatly influenced by Buddhism. To describe the book as being purely of this ilk, however, would be greatly misleading. Also, to describe The Neurotics Guide simply as a self-help book, would be equally deceptive. Certainly there are mind-exercises and meditation techniques included which the reader may find helps them achieve a new mind-state, and which gives them a new approach to life, but this is very much a book of theory / philosophy which concentrates on challenging our standard ideas about ourselves and our lives. Niebauer is indeed “a college professor specializing in cognitive neuropsychology” (Preface) and the book has a heavy neuroscience content. In essence Niebauer is attempting to give Eastern Mysticism a neuroscience framework, taking it from the world of pure ideas and giving it a firm background in science.


http://goo.gl/oKlcFz The Neurotics Guide (Book ed.)

http://goo.gl/z8HkhM The Neurotics Guide (Kindle ed.)

http://goo.gl/IgXUcJ Chris Niebauer’s Facebook Page

http://goo.gl/HBAXap Chris Niebauer’s Web Site


For the full review please click:

http://raymondmathiesenbookreviews.bl...

[Addie]

I am currently reading:The Girl Who Could Fly

[-RininTa-]

Currently reading

[Jillyn]

I'm currently reading

[Jillyn]

And now I'm reading

[Naraystia]

Still reading

[Fiona (Titch)]

Sorry been AWOL, hardly read since I finished . So today I started and finished - James Patterson which I think he is getting back to usual self. Now I need to read - James Patterson to carry on the story.

[Becky]

one of the few Christian writers I like.

[Fiona (Titch)]

Have now finished NYPD Red 2 - James Patterson which I thought had me guessing in the first 25% of the book. Then I get to 75% and BANG it threw me off course and I was like "I NEVER SAW THAT COMING". So I am now going to read A Touch of Lilly - Nina Pierce for a slightly steamy kinda book (avert your eyes now if you don't like or do Erotica kind of books lol).