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Subject: Good non-fiction
Date Posted: 9/18/2007 6:10 PM ET
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I liked the topic of good novels, but I didn't want to go off track there, so I'm starting a new thread about non-fiction that you liked.  I really enjoyed  Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia by Elizabeth Gilbert.  And I just started The Faith Club: A Muslim, A Christian, A Jew-- Three Women Search for Understanding, which is also very good, and hard to put down.  A lot of non-fiction I don't really care for, because I find it dry, and frankly, not very engaging or interesting.

So I'm looking for some more good nonfiction recommendations.  Anyone have any? 

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Date Posted: 9/18/2007 8:06 PM ET
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I'm almost through with How to Want What You Have by Timothy Millar, it's been around for a while, so there should be plenty out there available.  I like it a lot, he is a psychologist and comes from that perspective but with strong spiritual themes.  It gives you a lot to think about and provides real, useful methods for dealing head on with life instead of just getting by.  I believe it will make a big difference to my life anyway!

Course I have a huge list of good non-fiction: anything by Wayne Dyer, Gregg Braden, Louise Hay, the Dalai Lama to name a few :)  Hope you get some more response here, I'd like to see what others recommend too.

Cheers, Margaret

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Date Posted: 9/21/2007 12:52 PM ET
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Eat, Pray, Love is WONDERFUL!!   A must read, IMO!

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Date Posted: 9/21/2007 1:35 PM ET
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L, what was your favorite section of it?