WeReallyRead: The Brain That Changes Itself

Tuesday, December 14, 2010

The Brain That Changes Itself

Finally! I chose a book and have copies available at the library.
It is a non-fiction book titled The Brain That Changes Itself, by Norman Doidge, M.D.
Here is a link to the book's website:

http://www.normandoidge.com/normandoidge/MAIN.html

I hope you enjoy reading it. I am fascinated with our amazing brains - and it is an encouraging message to learn how well equipped they are to face and accomodate change, injury, and other life challenges.

Claudia has picked up her copy and I just sent a copy to Chris. I would like to have our next meeting on Wednesday the 19th at my house - if that works out for everyone. Gerry is out of town until sometime in January, so I hope that he checks in with me when he returns.

I think I will call each of you as well as post this message.

2 comments:

basket lady said...: Hi Esther,

Just checking to see if we are still planning for Wed. Jan 19th at your home - planning on seeing you then.; January 13, 2011 at 10:59 AM
Granny Dalgas said...: Yes, I am still planning on hosting - same time - 5:30 - 6:00 ish. See you soon!!; January 14, 2011 at 10:31 AM

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Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens 4.9
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Beneath the Scarlet Sky by Mark Sullivan 5.0
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As Bright as Heaven by Susan Meissner 3.96
The Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly 4.42
Barracoon by Zora Neale Hurston 4.3
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A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles 6.0
Every Note Played by Lisa Genova 4.06
A Morbid Taste for Bones by Ellis Peters 4.57
Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert 2.83
Running on Red Dog Road by Drema Hall Berheimer 4.96
Moo by Sharon Creech 5.21
A Street Cat Named Bob by James Bowen 3.58
You Don"t Have to Say You Love Me by Sherman Alexie 4.56
The Virginian by Owen Wister 4.0
The Heirs by Susan Rieger 3.64
The Women in the Castle by Jessica Shattuck 5.22
Grandma Gatewood's Walk by Ben Montgomery 4.4
Still Life by Louise Penny 5.35
The Bad-Ass Librarian of Timbuktu by Joshua Hammer 3.71
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway 2.85
Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult 5.21
At the Water's Edge by Sara Gruen 4.88
The Worst Hard Times by Timothy Egan 3.75
The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway 5.43
Poems Anthology of Robert Frost by Louis Untermeyer 5.43
Breaking Blue by Timothy Egan 3.47
Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf 3.8
The Three-Year Swim Club by Julie Checkoway 3.5
A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman 4.05
Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger 3.72
The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion 4.93
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi 4.69
My Friend Flicka by Mary O'Hara 3.88
Circling the Sun, by Paula McLain 4.95375
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr 5.75
The Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline 5.39
I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai
The Other by David Guterson 3.34
Ancient Places by Jack Nisbet 3.81
The Martian by Andy Wier 3.23
We Are Called to Rise by Laura McBride 4.48
The Girl Who Wrote in Silk by Kelli Estes 4.6
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern 4.0
What Alice Forgot by Lianne Moriarty 4.28
The Short and Tragic life of Robert Peace by Jeff Hobbs 4.22
The Firelight Girls by Kaya McLaren 3.38
The Mockingbird Next Door by Marja Mills 4.0
The Aviator's Wife by Melanie Benjamin 3.9
Two Old Women by Velma Wallis 4.8
Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay 4.3
The Light Between Oceans. By M L Stedman 5.53
The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown 5.6
Running the Books by Avi Steinberg 4.1
Turn Right at Machu Picchu by Mark Adams 4.2
Music on the Move Out West. By Matthew Gonder. 3.3
The Zookeeper's Wife by Diane Ackerman 4.7
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt 5.06
The Greater Journey by David McCullough 3.9
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot 5. 12
Where'd You Go, Bernadette? By Maria Semple. 5.26
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 5.13
Kitchen Confidential. By Anthony Bourdain. 2.0
Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher by Timothy Egan 5.15
An Invisible Thread by Laura Schroff. 4.3
The Beast in the Garden by David Baron 4.95
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nitetime. By Mark Haddon 5.08
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed 5.0
Into the Beautiful North by Luis Alberto Urea 4.8
The Orchardist by Amanda Coplin 3.95
The White Cascade by Gary Crist 4.8
Walking the Gobi by Helen Thayer 3.85
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barberry 4.62
I Remember Nothing by Nora Ephron 4.0
State of Wonder by Ann Patchett 5.13
The Map of my Dead Pilots by Colleen Mondor 3.6
The Violets of March by Sarah Jio 4.4
Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky
Unbroken, by Laura Hillenbrand 4.82
Naked, by David Sedaris 3.8
Room, by Emma Donoghue 3.93
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand, by Helen Simonson 4.0
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, by Anne Fainman 3.75
Hotel at the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, by Jamie Ford 5.27
The Hiding Place, by Corrie ten Boom 4.91
Winterdance, by Gary Paulsen 4.9
Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life, by Karen Armstrong 4.32
Global Peace and the Rise of Antichrist, by Dave Hunt 2.42
The Help, by Kathryn Stockett 5.44
The Hummingbirds' Daughter, by Luis Urrea 4.63
The Brain That Changes Itself, by Norman Doidge, MD 4.0
Church of the Dog, by Kaya McLaren 4.8
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen 4.86
Strength in What Remains, by Tracy Kidder 4.25
Adrift by Steven Callahan 5.25
When Everything Changed by Gail Collins 4.3
The Women by TC Boyle 3.96
Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson 5.5
Beyond the Sky and Earth, by Jamie Zeppa 5.1
Peace Like a River, by Leif Enger 4.85
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society, by Mary Shaffer 5.4
Green Dolphin Street, by Elizabeth Goudge
Longitude by Dava Sobel
The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls
Making Do and Hanging On by Bruce Foxworthy 4.2
The Story of Joe by Jonathan Tropper 3.9
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski 4.28
The Whistling Season by Ivan Doig
The Wild Trees by Richard Preston
Omnivore's Dilema by Michael Pollan 4.75
Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis 4.6
West With The Night by Beryl Markham 5.2
Healing Night by Rubin R. Naiman, Ph. D. 3.66
The Absolutely True Story of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie 4.94
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini 5.6
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Big Stone Gap by Adriana Trigiani
The Measure of a Man by Sidney Poitier
The Celestial Juke Box by Cynthia Shearer
The Female Brain by Louann Brizendine, MD 4.63
Small Wonder Essays by Barbara Kingsolver 4.58
The Curve of Time by M. Wylie Blanchet 5.03
Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation by Cokie Roberts 3.61
A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley 4.04
Circling The Earth in a Wheelchair by Stan Morse
Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
Barefoot Heart by Elva Trevino Hart 5.21
Nature Lessons by Lynnette Brassfield 5.08
A Good Yarn by Debbie Macomber 4.86
Faith and Betrayal by Sally Denton 4.36
The Master Butchers Singing Club by L. Erddrich 4.35
The Ladies No. 1 Detective Agency by A. McCall Smith 4.28
The Mermaid Chair by Sue Kidd 2.79
Life of Pi by Yann Martel 5.68
Hope Rising by Kim Meader 5.43
A Tree Grows In Brooklyn by Betty Smith 4.89
Good News From North Haven by Michael L. Lindvall 5.35
Alice's Tulips by Sandra Dallas 3.97
The Screw Tape Letters by C. S. Lewis 4.0
Atomic Farm Girl by Terri Hein 5.75
A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines 5.5
Bold Spirit by Linda Laurence Hunt
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The Color of Water by James McBride 4.83
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Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers 4.25
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Sandy's Tea Society by Sandy Lynam Clough 2.94
A Narrative of a Revolutionalry Soldier 4.04
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Shooting the Boh by Tracy Johnston 2.42
Ladies With Options by Cynthia Hartwick 4.08
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Waiting (Waitress) 3.04
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This Present Darkness by Frank E. Peretti 3.1
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Price of Honor by Ian Goodwin 3.8
The Magician's Assistant by Ann Patchett 3.2
Jubilee 3.8
Stolen Lives by Malika Oufkir 4.0
Women's Diaries of The Westward Journey by Lillian Schlissel 3.9
All Over But The Shoutin' by Rick Bragg 4.4
Chocolat by Joanne Harris 3.7
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J. K. Rowling 2.9
While I Was Gone by Sue Miller 4.4
The Myth of Certainty by Daniel Taylor 2.4
Open House 3.7
The Rescue by Nicholas Sparks 2.2
Under the Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes 3.5