Books that make you smart, intelligent, and something more

[elisedance]

ED you'll love this..Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom by Rick Hanson and Richard Mendius, okay the science is failry basic, but did you know that women have/get more oxytocin than men. Its not fair.

well, we DO breast feed so I guess we deserve a little more.  Its payback if you like...

[Bordertangoman]

ED you'll love this..Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom by Rick Hanson and Richard Mendius, okay the science is failry basic, but did you know that women have/get more oxytocin than men. Its not fair.

well, we DO breast feed so I guess we deserve a little more.  Its payback if you like...

 

i demand the right to breastfeed!

[elisedance]

ED you'll love this..Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom by Rick Hanson and Richard Mendius, okay the science is failry basic, but did you know that women have/get more oxytocin than men. Its not fair.

well, we DO breast feed so I guess we deserve a little more.   Its payback if you like...

 

i demand the right to breastfeed!

Granted. 
OK, so now what are you going to do?

[Rugby]

Books that make you smart, intelligent, and something more.

Sign me up, where do I get them and how soon does it work?

[elisedance]

....Just as soon as you stop believing...

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[Rugby]

Hey, Santa and the Tooth Fairy heard that.

[elisedance]

Not a problem - none of them occupy such a book

[bookworm]

I've also stopped reading which for me is a 'shock-horror' I used to eat up books, that's partly why I chose my username (perhaps I should post that in the username thread  actually not sure where I got the worm part from...) So anyone know any quick fixes for how to get back into reading while still living life? I find I'm two extremes, I either read and then nothing happens in my life, I get sucked into the dreamy world of books and don't do anything else until I finish my book or I live my life but then don't read.

[phoenix13]

Have you tried audiobooks?  That's how I finally "read" Lord of the Rings -- while in the car, during my commute.

[elisedance]

Have you tried audiobooks?  That's how I finally "read" Lord of the Rings -- while in the car, during my commute.

bingo - for me.  My most productive reading period was back in the 80s when I had to commute from north baltimore to bethesda - 1.5 hrs each way.  I would go to the library which had a limited collection that was almost always out so I had to take whatever was on the shelf.  Back then the only audio books were on tape cassetts and were made for blind people to be able to read - classics.  Yup, every book was an established classic.  This meant I read Thomas Hardy, Dickens, Auden, Eliott etc  - even the whole of Don Quixote (28 tapes in all!).  I'd like to think I was a literary academic but I only did it because I was forced to. 

I actually miss that commute, it was so uplifting to discover that classics were classics not because they were arty but because they were really, really good... I'm a lousy reader because I can't sit still

[phoenix13]

Exactly.  It took me a long time to discover it, but the classics are the classics for a reason.  As a rule, they are darn good books.

ee actually gives me a brilliant idea.   My new job is a slightly longer commute, so maybe it's time for me to start my audio book habit again.  I read a lot of really good books, that way. I'll check the library website.  IIRC, they have a fairly large collection.