Sharing an overview of the books that I have read lately and if I recommend adding them to your collection.
Hi friends! How was the weekend? We spent it in Phoenix for the Liv dance competition. His team did an incredible job, we enjoyed a family brunch and I slipped for a Lagree course – wins all around.
For today’s post, I wanted to share a small summary of the books that I have read lately. After a little drought, I took much more time to read recently. (I also have a bit relaxing on studies in Spanish and IHP 3 studies, but that’s how it happens sometimes.) Almost all were circuits and I am delighted to share them with you! If you have incredible books that you read right now, let me know. Soon, I will be seated on a veranda of cruise ships with a coffee and a book in hand and I am so ready.
ADHD is great by Penn Holderness
I listened to the audio version and I highly recommend listening to it. I have been a fan of the Holderness family for years and I was intrigued by this book because I have the impression that everything I saw online convinced me that I have ADHD. Everything always wants to learn, to the pressure of procrastination (then to spend the whole night or to a solid block of 8 to 10 hours ending something), to constantly change of hobbies (remember the dance of flamenco and the ukulele?), List of hundreds of commercial ideas, losing my duration of attention, feeling drained after too much extrovert.
This book is such a fun and real look of what it is to live with ADHD. Penn Holderness shares his personal stories and shows how to have ADHD is not something to “fix”. Instead, he explains how it can be real strength when you learn to work with your brain. It’s funny, revealing and super encouraging for anyone who has already felt that their brain is working a little differently.
He also pointed out that ADHD is really a spectrum and honestly, I don’t know if I got it after reading this book. (Another testimony to the fact that doctors provide dianoses, not on Google or social media lol.) But, I have always appreciated it and it is an excellent reminder of how to support friends and family members with ADHD. 9/10
From Amazon:
You live in a world that has not been designed for you. A world where you expect to sit, stay silent and concentrate. Because of how your brain is wired, you may feel like you are failing in life. But you don’t run under. You are great.
The creators of award -winning content Kim and Penn Holderness are on a mission to restart how we think of the disorder unfortunately called “attention / hyperactivity deficit”. As always, they do it while looking in the mirror, because they did not only study ADHD; They live it.
Penn was at university when he received a diagnosis of ADHD, although the signs of having a brain that worked a little differently was there since he was a child. Rather than considering diagnosis as a curse or giving in to feelings of insufficiency or failure, he adopted a different approach, which he wants to share with his adhders colleagues and the people who care about them.
Based on their often hilarious ideas and the expertise of doctors, researchers and specialists; Kim and Penn offer fun advice and explanations that are easy to digest, in particular:
What it is really to live with a brain of ADHD.
How to find humor in the traps, the stories of sobs and the incredible triumphs (like the moment when they won the incredible race!) Who come with ADHD.
How to take up the challenges that ADHD presents with a positive perspective.
Tools and targeted techniques to play with your unique strengths.
Fun extras such as the Bingo of ADHD, an ode with freight pants, and what the world would look like if the adhders were in charge.
Take it from Penn: Having ADHD can be frightening, but it comes with incredible advantages, including creativity, hyperfocus and energy. You might even say it’s a bit great. Whether you have ADHD or you want to support someone else in their trip is the guide you need to make the life you want
Things we can’t say by Kelly Rimmer
This one completely draws your heart. He switches between our days and the Second World War in Poland when a woman discovers the hidden past of his grandmother. It is a powerful mixture of love, loss and resilience, and the end was not what I expected; It was even more heartbreaking and beautiful. If you like double quarter stories and historical fiction, you will love it. 9/10
From Amazon::
In 1942, Europe remained in the relentless grip of war. Just beyond the tents of the refugee camp she calls at home, a young woman speaks her wishes for marriage. It is a decision that will change his destiny … and it is a lie that will remain buried until the next century.
Since she was nine years old, Alina Dziak knew she would marry her best friend, Tomasz. Now fifteen years and committed, Alina is not concerned with reports from Nazi soldiers on the Polish border, believing to her neighbors that they represent no real threats, and dreams instead of Tomasz returns from the University of Warsaw so that they can be married. But little by little, injustice by brutal injustice, the Nazi occupation settles down, and the tiny rural village of Alina, his families, are divided by fear and hatred.
Then, while the fabric of their life is slowly separate, Tomasz disappears. Where Alina was measuring time between the visits of her beloved, she now measures the spaces between hope and despair, while waiting for the word of Tomasz and avoiding the attention of the soldiers who patrol her parents’ farm. But for the moment, even the deafening silence is preferable to sorrow.
Tehran’s Lion Women by Marjan Kamali
Located in the 1950s and 1970s, Iran, Tehran’s Lion Women Two women who become improbable friends follows life. This book is deliciously written and explores the themes of Riendship, ambition and acts of silent but fierce resistance which can shape the path of a woman. If you liked The Kite Runner And A thousand splendid sunsI would recommend this one. He has a very captivating writing and a very strong and deep character development. This is the type of book where you find yourself thinking of the characters long after turning the final page. 9/10
From Amazon:
In Tehran from the 1950s, Ellie, seven, lives in great comfort until the premature death of her father, forcing Ellie and his mother to move to a small house in the city center. Lonely and bringing the weight of her mother’s endless grievances, Ellie dreams that a friend attenuates her isolation.
Fortunately, the first day of school, she meets Homa, a nice girl with a courageous and irrepressible spirit. Together, the two girls play games, learn to cook in the hot house of the hot house of Homa, to wander in the colorful stands of the Grand Bazaar and to share their ambitions to become “lion women”.
But their happiness is disturbed when Ellie and her mother have the opportunity to return to their previous bourgeois life. Now a popular student at the Best Girls’ High School in Iran, the memories of Homa d’Ellie are beginning to fade. Years later, however, its sudden reappearance in the privileged world of Ellie changes the course of their lives.
Together, the two young women mature and pursue their own objectives for a significant future. But as political disorders in Iran are built at a break point, an overwhelming betrayal will have enormous consequences.
Be ready when luck happens by Ina Garten
I was waiting to read this book forever, and Finally took the time to listen to the audio version. This has exceeded all my expectations. It was a warm and frank reflection on the way she followed her intuition, took daring risks and built an emblematic career, often without formal plan. To work at the White House at the launch of the conta barefoot brand, it is filled with stories of its unexpected opportunities, behind the scenes and the relationships that have shaped its trip.
I have been a fan of Ina for years, and I learned to cook while watching Food Network when we were married and live in Fayetteville, NC. It was wild for me to learn that she did shopping at the same commissioner (at Ft. Bragg!) While she also learned to cook … but she would be one to teach me from a screen a few decades later. He is filled with fun stories, and even better to hear him say them in his own voice. It was a beautiful reminder that you do not always need to have a concrete plan; You just have to stay faithful to yourself and be ready when luck occurs. I loved it. 10/10
From Amazon::
Here, for the first time, Ina Garten has an intimate, entertaining and inspiring story of his remarkable journey. Ina’s gift is to make everything easy, but all of its achievements have been the result of hard work, daring choices and exquisite attention to details. In her unmistakable voice (nobody tells a story like INA), she gives life to her past and her process in a high enthusiasm and without restraint that tells decades of personal challenges, adventures (and misadventures) and unexpected career twists and turns, all delivered with her combination of game and goal.
From a difficult childhood to meet the love of his life, Jeffrey, and marry him while he was still at university, bureaucratic work boring in Washington, DC, an announcement for a restoration store specializing in Hamptons, from the owner of a Barefoot boutique contained to the author of cooking books and famous television, he has been entertaining in his own. television. Now, she invites them to get closer to live her story in detail and share the important life lessons that she has learned along the way: do what you like because if you like her, you will be really good, you swing for fences and always be ready when luck happens.
So tell me, friends: what are you reading right now? Please share the goods!
xoxo
Gina
