 Falise
Platt of the 24/8
Book Club shares her top picks in new books. A voracious
reader with diverse interests, Falise chooses the best from
fiction and nonfiction alike, creating a selection that is both
fun and intelligent.
January Good Reads:
Mollie Katzen’s Recipes:
Soups: Within this cookbook are 50 healthful and delicious
recipes for soups. There are hot and cold soups from the basics
to other unique and innovative combinations.
Cool Green Stuff: Dale Evans has photographed a fantastic collection of repurposed
and eco-friendly products to delight and intrigue.
How to Heal Toxic Thoughts:
A therapist and shaman practitioner, Sandra Ingerman authored
this book to help readers understand spiritual energy. Through
very simple teachings, everyone can work to build more positive
energy. According to the author...
Altar Your Space: A Guide
to the Restorative Home: The New Year signals a time
for renewal and rebirth, so changing our outlook and living
space seems a natural progression.
Poetry Speaks Expanded:
Hear Poets Read Their Own Work from Tennyson to Plath:
In this expanded version of the popular collection, the editors
honor more 20th century poets and their works. From William
Carlos Williams to James Joyce...
Celestial Gallery:
The body of art represented in this book portrays contemporary
interpretations of Nepalese deities. Buddha’s message, “Be
a light unto yourself,” is echoed...
PS, I Love You:
To movie-goers, this title may ring a bell because there is
a movie adaptation now in theaters. Whether you see the movie
or not, though, the book is well worth reading. Beautiful
words...
 Mollie
Katzen’s Recipes: Soups
By Mollie Katzen
Ten Speed Press, 2007
Within this cookbook are 50 healthful and delicious recipes
for soups. There are hot and cold soups from the basics to
other unique and innovative combinations.
Mollie Katzen was named by Health Magazine as one of the
five women that changed the way we eat. Additionally, as the
author of the popular Moosewood Cookbook series and a member
of the Harvard School of Public Health Nutrition Roundtable,
Katzen has proven herself a culinary tour de force.
With its easel format and Mollie Katzen’s pen and ink drawings,
this wonderful cookbook will inspire your inner chef to get
back to the kitchen at once.
 Cool
Green Stuff
By Dale Evans
Potter, 2007
Dale Evans has photographed a fantastic collection of repurposed
and eco-friendly products to delight and intrigue. The items
include: a bamboo computer monitor, a solar powered handbag,
a cork Persian rug, a shopping cart chair and of course Good
Reads’ favorite item, the recycled book shelving units.
Each page displays a different item and lists its environmental
significance. If you want to know more about the items—and
you will—websites are included. These sites will give
you additional information on the featured items in Cool Green
Stuff and get your imagination soaring to new eco-heights.
 How
to Heal Toxic Thoughts
By Sandra Ingerman
Sterling, 2007
A therapist and shaman practitioner, Sandra Ingerman authored
this book to help readers understand spiritual energy. Through
very simple teachings, everyone can work to build more positive
energy. According to the author, and many others interested
in the healing arts, anything less then positive energy takes
away much love and light from life.
Though filled with helpful and peace-bringing thoughts, one
particular exercise stands out as a good representation of
the book’s entire intent. Create and surround yourself with
post-it notes declaring positive, inspirational and powerful
words. You can invoke these mantras any time you need encouragement.
Reminders like these help us make choices that can transform
us and our situations.
 Altar
Your Space: A Guide to the Restorative Home
By Jagatjoti S. Khalsa
Mandala Publishing, 2007
The New Year signals a time for renewal and rebirth, so changing
our outlook and living space seems a natural progression.
This gorgeous paperback guides the reader to bring an Eastern
sensibility into a Western home.
Tara Home founder Jagatjoto S. Khalsa shares his creative
and spiritually-minded approach, explaining that everything
you add to your home, every choice you make, evokes a feeling
and produces and effect. Your home is the one environment
you can truly control and bringing your vision in line with
its reality will help you create a sacred haven for your soul.
 Poetry
Speaks Expanded: Hear Poets Read Their Own Work from Tennyson
to Plath
By Elise Paschen & Rebekah Mosby
Source Books, 2007
In this expanded version of the popular collection, the editors
honor more 20th century poets and their works. From William
Carlos Williams to James Joyce, forty-seven poets are highlighted,
including well known favorites and lesser known names.
Each chapter features a poet and includes a biography, an
analysis of their work and some samples of their poetry. But
the real treasure of Poetry Speaks Expanded is the audio component:
the anthology contains CDs featuring each poet reading their
work. Hearing the poets recite their own writing is very powerful
and rouses a perhaps more personal connection to this spoken
and written art.
 Celestial
Gallery
Paintings by Romio Shrestha
Text by Ian A. Baker
Mandala Publishing, 2007
The body of art represented in this book portrays contemporary
interpretations of Nepalese deities. Buddha’s message,
“Be a light unto yourself,” is echoed in these vibrant
Thangha paintings as they mirror our inner-most potential
for total spiritual freedom.
Romio Shrestha, an artist and monk, is a master of Indio-Nepali
Tibetan Buddhist traditions of enlightenment art whose work
has been exhibited in museums around the world including the
British Museum. The riveting plates and accompanying text
may inspire readers to open their eyes, hearts and mind to
the possibility of enlightenment.
 PS,
I Love You
By Cecilia Ahern
Hyperion, 2007
To movie-goers, this title may ring a bell because there
is a movie adaptation now in theaters. Whether you see the
movie or not, though, the book is well worth reading. Beautiful
words and sentiments abound, so keeping tissues at hand is
advised.
The talented Ahern takes readers on Holly’s journey through
love, loss, friendship, sadness, joy, despair and hope with
a series of moving letters from her deceased husband. With
vivid characters, and a unique take on a classic theme, this
is a great introduction to Ahern’s work.
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