Sharing a roundup of the books I learn in November and if I’d advocate them!
Hello mates! How’s the week going? I hope you’re having an excellent one up to now. 🙂 It’s been a enjoyable and busy one up to now. A lot of occasions to prepare for this weekend, and I’ve been instructing in-person lessons, coaching purchasers, and dealing with 1:1 purchasers.
For in the present day’s put up, I wished to share a recap of the books I learn in November. I’m nonetheless holding sturdy at my objective of at the least three books monthly, and this month, there have been two large dwelling runs. A number of the greatest books I’ve learn in my life, and I can’t wait to talk about them with ya.
November 2021 Reads
1. Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
I selected this one by my E-book of the Month subscription and had a sense I might take pleasure in it. That is precisely my favourite kind of ebook: a historic saga with deep character growth that spans a number of generations. On the finish of this ebook, I closed the ultimate web page and sat, shocked for a second. I felt like I knew the whole household when it was completed and whereas it was an extended learn (round 500 pages), it was engrossing and fantastically executed. 10/10 would advocate.
From Amazon:
“There might solely be a couple of winners, and lots of losers. And but we performed on, as a result of we had hope that we may be the fortunate ones”.
Within the early 1900s, teenaged Sunja, the adored daughter of a crippled fisherman, falls for a rich stranger on the seashore close to her dwelling in Korea. He guarantees her the world, however when she discovers she is pregnant – and that her lover is married – she refuses to be purchased. As an alternative, she accepts a proposal of marriage from a delicate, sickly minister passing by on his technique to Japan. However her resolution to desert her dwelling, and to reject her son’s highly effective father, units off a dramatic saga that can echo down by the generations.
Richly instructed and profoundly shifting, Pachinko is a narrative of affection, sacrifice, ambition, and loyalty. From bustling avenue markets to the halls of Japan’s most interesting universities to the pachinko parlors of the felony underworld, Lee’s advanced and passionate characters – sturdy, cussed ladies, devoted sisters and sons, fathers shaken by ethical disaster – survive and thrive in opposition to the detached arc of historical past.
2. In Order to Dwell by Yeonmi Park
I received’t give any spoilers however I heard Yeonmi Park converse on a podcast and knew instantly that I wanted to obtain her ebook. I listened to the audio model, which I extremely advocate. It was harrowing to study her private expertise, and I used to be impressed by her resilience.
Some items of her story gave me further perception into Pachinko and the opposite method round. It’s an necessary reminder that whereas the US isn’t excellent, I really feel blessed to stay right here and lift our household right here.
I cried after I completed In Order to Dwell — it shook me to my core. I used to be very emotional about all the things she endured, and whereas it was tough to hearken to some components, it was an necessary learn that can follow me for a very long time. 10/10.
Yeonmi Park was not dreaming of freedom when she escaped from North Korea. She didn’t even know what it meant to be free. All she knew was that she was working for her life, that if she and her household stayed behind they’d die – from hunger, or illness, and even execution.
In Order to Dwell is the story of Park’s wrestle to outlive within the darkest, most repressive nation on earth; her harrowing escape to South Korea by China’s underworld of smugglers and human traffickers; and her emergence as a number one human rights activist – all earlier than her twenty first birthday.
Park was born to a household of civil servants within the North Korean metropolis of Hyesan, alongside the Chinese language border. She grew up in a society during which the regime controls all the things you do, all the things you be taught, the place you go, what you say, even what you suppose. On this warped world, famine was a lifestyle and minor offenses, akin to watching international movies, might show deadly.
Park’s household was comparatively privileged till her father, a celebration member, was arrested for smuggling. After that, life in North Korea grew to become a ceaseless battle in opposition to hunger. Escaping together with her mom, Park started an extended journey of unspeakable hardship and degradation by China and Mongolia, which lastly yielded her freedom in South Korea. Immediately, Park is an influential chief of the youthful generations of Korean dissidents and an internationally acknowledged advocate for human rights around the globe.
In the long run, In Order to Dwell is in regards to the resilience of the human spirit and the transcendent energy of affection to beat probably the most ghastly horrors and probably the most hopeless circumstances. “I needed to discover ways to love others,” says Yeonmi Park. “And now I’m prepared to die for them.”
3. The 4 Agreements by don Miguel Ruiz
It is a ebook that’s extremely advocate in yoga circles… it’s a type of go-to foundational books. I’ve heard fairly a couple of mates discuss this one, and figured I’d give it a whirl. I listened to the audio model (liked it) and it was the right accompaniment to out of doors hikes.
It’s a brief learn with easy premises that you should utilize to domesticate extra pleasure and function in your life. Every day, I remind myself of the 4 Agreements and use this mindset with my interactions with others and my household. 9/10 would advocate, particularly in the event you’re attempting to cut back the noise and stress in your life, and don’t thoughts books which are slightly on the *woo* facet 😉
From Amazon:
In The 4 Agreements, don Miguel Ruiz reveals the supply of self-limiting beliefs that rob us of pleasure and create pointless struggling. Based mostly on historic Toltec knowledge, the The 4 Agreements provide a robust code of conduct that may quickly remodel our lives to a brand new expertise of freedom, true happiness, and love.
Don Miguel Ruiz has devoted his life to sharing the knowledge of the traditional Toltec. For greater than twenty years, he has guided others towards their private freedom. Immediately, he continues to mix his distinctive mix of historic knowledge and modern-day consciousness by journeys to sacred websites around the globe.
So, inform me, mates: what’s the very best ebook you’ve learn currently? Are you beginning to brainstorm objective concepts for the following yr, or not but?
xo
Gina
