I am hopeful that this app will find its way to survive all the grant /programs cuts. It’s a great app! It has definitely changed my mom’s busy life.
This year has been full of stories already, real and fiction. Here is the list of books that I listened so far with a snipped of my thoughts in each of them.
1. Romney, a reckoning -McKay Coppins
I have recommended this book multiple times already! Seriously so well written, it describes the good and the not so good of Mitt Romney. The trajectory of his life, his desire to make an impact in people’s lives, and the failure to connect with the masses. His overall life story is so inspiring and my opinion will probably be biased since I strive to live the same principles he embodies.
2. Supercommunicators – Charles Duhigg
This is such a great book! Especially when I always feel that language variation can be a roadblock in my own upbringing. It felt good to know that communication is more than the words and more about the real intent to listen and be vulnerable with those you can be vulnerable with. This book give real and tangibles things we can do to improve our communications. If you do not want to read the whole book, the most important and meaningful story for me was a case study that is displayed towards the end of the book. A research study that follows the lives of two individuals throughout their lives, such great details in how they conducted themselves, and especially what was the main difference in living fulfilling lives.
3. The Women -Kristin Hannah
Ok, this book made me cry so many times through out. If you have lived, or have family members that have lived through wars, this can be very very raw and sad book. This books describes how a nurse enlisted to the Army to serve in the Vietnam War. I loved how the book portrays the role of women in war and how little we know about it. It is a novel, so the romantic life of the nurse can also be a hook. The traumas and the healing, all very relatable. It is a heavy book, but It’s a book that I could not stop listening! My dad and his sibling were part of the civil war in El Salvador, and I was born in the middle of it. Suffering and wars are not just acquaintance for our family, healing still happening.
4. Christmas with the Queen
This book is a novel, a good and sort of happy one. The book describes the lives of this journalist and a chef, they somehow reconnect because of Royal Christmas holidays preparations. They had met before that’s why I am saying they reconnect. It’s a fun pace and short chapters that could leave you asking for more. I loved this book because I could picture the places they talked about when I visited London for work -my past single life was not entirely boring.
The post will be updated throughout the year!
Happy reading 📚🤎
