Reading List

Mr. Dickie and daughter Cyndi on Dick's 70th Birthday in May 2009

... so much new information [is] coming your way that you are continually being reminded that you owe it to yourself to do all you can to prepare yourself to receive these new insights. (Introduction to Until Today! by Iyanla Vanzant)

The compulsive drive for perfection - an unrealistic idealism - can be a neurotic symptom as difficult to deal with as the alcoholic's compulsion to drink. (One Day At A Time In Al-Anon, 23 December)

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Here's a list of the forty books I read in 2009. I extracted the list from a comma-delimited file I created to record the books I read during the year. I also posted to WeRead, via Facebook. WeRead doesn't track the date a book was read. My file does.

1. Anonymous, Daily Reflections,
2. Anonymous, Courage to Change,
3. Arthur, Kay, Search My Heart-O God,
4. Aurelius, Marcus, Meditations
5. Anonymous, One Day at a Time in Al-Anon,
6. Beattie, Melody, The Language of Letting Go,
7. Beattie, Melody, The New Codependency,
8. Cheever, Susan, Desire-Where Sex Meets Addiction,
9. Covey, Stephen R., The Seven Habits of Hightly Effective People
10. Ehrenreich, Barbara, Bright-Sided,
11. Davis, Kenneth C., America's Hidden History,
12. Engram, Ric, Pace Yourself,
13. Frothingham, Andrew & Tripp Evans, Wake Up and Smell the Coffee,
14. Hazelden, Food For Thought,
15. Hazelden, Touchstones,
16. Jones, Susan Smith, Choose to Live Each Day Fully,
17. LeShan, Lawrence, How to Meditate,
18. Oliver, Dan, 500 Internet Hints, Tips, & Techniques,
19. Orchard, Leslie Michael, Hacking Delicious,
20. McCourt, Frank, 'tis,
21. McCourt, Frank, Teacher Man: A Memoir,
22. McCourt, Frank, Angela's Ashes A Memoir,
23. McGraw, Phil, The Ultimate Weight Solution,
24. Pitzele, Sefra Kobrin, One More Day,
25. Roeck, Alan L., Look To This Day,
26. Stanley, Jacqueline D., Reading to Heal: How to Use Bibliotherapy to Improve Your Life,
27. Solari, Rose and Charles H. Simpkinson, Nourishing the Soul: Discovering the Sacred in Everyday Life,
28. Somers, Suzanne, 365 Ways to Change Your Life,
29. Somers, Suzanne, Keeping Secrets,
30. St. James, Elaine, Simplify Your Christmas,
31. Stoddard, Alexandra, The Art of the Possible,
32. Teeter, Ryan & Karl Barksdale, Google Apps For Dummies,
33. Tolstoy, Leo, A Calendar of Wisdom,
34. Vanzant, Iyanla, Acts of Faith,
35. Vanzant, Iyanla, Faith in the Valley,
36. Vanzant, Iyanla, Until Today!,
37. Various, Daily Guideposts-2006,
38. Various, The Upper Room Disciplines-2006,
39. Warner, Janine C., Creating Family Web Sites For Dummies,
40. Zuck, Colleen, Daily Word For Healing,

Mr. Dickie
3/Jan/2010 9:14