Sunday, June 08, 2008

What are you reading?

Top Searched Books on AOL Search:

1. Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
2. The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch
3. Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer
4. Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer
5. A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle
6. The Shack by William P. Young
7. Snuff by Chuck Palahniuk
8. Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson
9. Audition by Barbara Walters
10. Change Your Brain, Change Your Life by Daniel G. Amen

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I met Dr. Amen at a lecture he gave and then participated in his brain study of injured and uninjured brains. I learned a lot about the damage that can occur even from normal children's bangs to the head - the kind that happen to most kids who engage in sports.

If you are interested in the brain and how it works, I highly recommend reading ""My Stroke of Insight"" by Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor. It's on the NY Times Bestseller list and it's a wonderful book. Dr. Taylor's talk at TED dot com is also AMAZING! Oprah interviewed Dr. Taylor and you can check that out on Oprah.com. And Time Magazine named Dr. T one of the 100 Most Influential people in the world. Having read her book, I can see why all the attention.

Dr. Amen's book is brain science and it's great at that. Dr. Taylor is a Harvard Brain Scientist, but what she writes about is the science and much more. She really cracks the code to understand how our brains (right and left hemispheres) work and she explains how we can get into our right brain and be happier and more joyful. Aside from any of the science, My Stroke of Insight is also just a great story.

Roy Bishop said...

Thanks for the info on the books regarding the brain.