A Busy Week – A Trip to Princeton Record Exchange, Two Books Finished and Books added to my Reading Challenges!
Last week was a busy one. My wife has been sick all week, most likely the result of kissing sick babies! Anyway I worked my two weekday and weekend shifts at Target, but since Oliver’s momma was home recovering from thyroid surgery I only babysat on Friday!
On Wednesday afternoon, Nick and I went to The Princeton Record Exchange, where I bought ten new albums! I have listened to several of them since then and they have all been really good! I wrote a post the other night about five of the albums and will be writing soon about the other five. On Friday three of the albums were the soundtrack for my commute to Paulsboro. They were The Wallace Roney Quintet, the Mack Avenue Super Band Live at Detroit Jazz and the latest release from Ben Paterson For Once in My Life. All three were great. I particularly like the Ben Paterson album its an organ trio album!
So what else has been happening!
I have finished two books in 2016 The first was Linda Fairstein‘s Entombed. This 2005 release is book #7 in Fairstein’s Alexandra Cooper series. It is the first Alex Cooper book I’ve read but it won’t be my last! The book fits into two reading challenges. First its author is obviously a women and secondly it was on a TBR shelf!! The second, which I actually finished this morning was David Guterson’s The Other. I hope to write about them later today or tomorrow.
So to stay on pace to reach my goal of 60 books I need to finish three more books this month. I am almost 40% through In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam by Robert McNamara.and almost half finished Boost Your Brain: The New Art and Science Behind Enhanced Brain Performance by Majid Fotuhi, M.D. Ph.D. Both have been highly enlightening!
The other night as I was looking for new books to read I thought about the Body Farm Series from Jefferson Bass It seems that I’m always reading a new Bill Brockton book in the early months of the year, at least over the last several years. I did a search at the library and found that a new book titled The Breaking Point had been released back in June of 2015. So I requested it at the library and picked it up on Tuesday!
After that I was looking at award winning books and found Preparation for the Next Life by Atticus Lish which won the Pen/Faukner Award for Fiction so I requested that book also and picked IT up on Friday!
Finally, I spotted an article at Philly.com Report: DASH Diet Best Overall Eating Plan…..
TUESDAY, Jan. 5, 2016 (HealthDay News) — For the sixth year in a row, a panel of health experts has named the heart-healthy DASH diet the best overall eating plan, according to U.S. News & World Report’s 2016 Best Diets ranking.
The DASH (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) diet was designed to lower blood pressure and cholesterol levels by limiting fats, red meat and sugar in favor of healthy grains, poultry, low-fat dairy and nuts, the U.S. National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute says.
“Our rankings put hard numbers on the belief that no one diet is ideal for everybody, but the best food plans overall are sustainable,” Angela Haupt, senior health editor at U.S. News & World Report, said in a news release from the media company.Read more
Hmm, lowers blood pressure and cholesterol levels sounds good to me…..so it was off to the main branch of my library system to find The Dash Diet for Hypertension: Lower Your Blood Pressure in 14 Days – without Drugs by Thomas Moore,M.D. There are also several ebooks with recipes and eating plans for the diet that are cheap on Amazon that I will be exploring!!
So these are the five books that I will be reading for my reading challenges over the next several weeks……
| Currently Reading | Reading Challenge | From |
| In Retrospect – Robert McNamara | Nonfiction | Library |
| Boost Your Brain – Majid Fotuhi | Nonfiction | Ebook |
| Preparation for the Next Life – Atticus Lish | Award-Winners | Library |
| The Breaking Point – Jefferson Bass | RGranddad’s Mysteries | Library |
| The Dash Diet – Thomas Moore | Nonfiction | Library |
Hopefully, I can finish three books before the end of the month! Wish Me Luck!……
P.S, Oh, and two nights this week and one afternoon I did a new yoga sequence “New Beginnings” that I found in this month’s Yoga Journal (A subscription to Yoga Journal was a Christmas gift from my wife). For most of the week I have felt really good! Today I feel a little funky but hopefully. I can avoid catching the virus that my wife and daughter caught!!