You'll love this one...!! A book club & more discussion

Hello team members, this is the report thread for our books that we've read.PPlease add your WoF name, the title and pages to your post and I will add it here in the thread.
Many thanks and happy reading!

Marie (UK): 8
Sharon: 3
Pat
Nistha: 1
Jan Mc: 1
Amanda: 3
Jayme: 4
Jenn
Saar: 2
Emma R.: 1
Sarah: 1
Lori Z
Fee: 2
Lauri: 2
Pragya: 2

Total books: 30

WoF Jayme

I read Tell Me More: Stories About the 12 Hardest Things I'm Learning to Say
240 pages
Connection: Part memoir/part self-help in this book Corrigan reflects on 12 phrases and words that if practiced can impact and help create a more honest emotional connection between people. - Emotional Wellness

WOF Marie UK
I read The Lifeline: The big-hearted and life-affirming summer read about the power of friendship

Fiction about a group of people who find wellness via wild river swimming. The group includes a mental health nurse who starts up a group to build community and wellness in her patients

WoFSharonBiskit

I read Wild Mind, David Barbur. 277 pages, Kindle
Connection: This was a fiction book about getting back to nature. Much of it centered around a group living in the wild and off the land. They felt the natural way was the best way for them to achieve mental and physical wellness. So, wellness and nature.

WoFSharon Biskit

I read Silent Voices, Ann Cleeves.
321 pp. Kindle.

Connection: Magenta cover.

WoF Jayme

I read Drunk-ish: A Memoir of Loving and Leaving Alcohol
288 pages - HB
Connection: In this funny and inspiring memoir Wilder-Taylor discusses her road to sobriety and gives thoughtful, realistic and encouraging advice to those who are thinking about becoming sober - Emotional and Physical Wellness

WOF Marie UK
I have finished two books
The Anthropocene Reviewed - the author has well documented difficulties with depression - the book is a memoir centred around the time of the pandemic when he struggled with retaining his "wellness"

A Short Walk Through a Wide World the MC is walking across the world - Nature

WOF Marie UK
COMPLETED
Sleep Donation

linked to mental and physical well being - dystopian society where sleeplessness is a pandemic being cured by donation of sleep from people who have only good sleep.
Linked in that sleep is an essential component for wellbeing

WoF SharonBiskit

I read Angel Lane, Sheila Roberts. It was 350 pp. Kindle. I think that is it for me.

Connection: A simple and happy book. It centered on doing a small kindness for others everyday and paying it forward as a way to get through life’s challenges. Mental health.

WoF Fee

I read Something Fresh. The main character exercises everyday and convinces others to do the same to improve their health and wellbeing. So this book refers to the physical aspect of wellness.

284 pages

WOF Marie UK


Connection - nature on cover

The Raven and the Reindeer

connection Nature - title has a bird and animal in it as does cover MC transforms into a reindeer in order to rescue her friend from the Snow queen

The Lord Is My Courage: Stepping Through the Shadows of Fear Toward the Voice of Love
293 pages
Connection - the book is about spiritual healing and wellness, especially after spiritual abuse

WOF Marie UK

A Heart That Works

Connection Nature on cover - also about grief and depression

WoF Jayme

I read The Paradise Problem
352 pages - HB
Connection - MC goes to an island spa resort and as wonderful spa treatments - Wellness

Saar - I also reported another book in message 6 that I don't see listed on our reporting list :)

Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life
282 pages
Connection - MC goes to group therapy to find relational wellness. Mental health.

Jayme wrote: "WoF Jayme

I read The Paradise Problem
352 pages - HB
Connection - MC goes to an island spa resort and as wonderful spa treatments - Wellness

Saar - I also reported another book i..."

Sorry, it's added now :)

WoF Saar the Book Owl

The Salt Path, hard cover, 288 pages
Connection: a couple (husband is terminal ill) goes on a survival (walking 630 miles) to cnnect with the healing power of nature.

De grote tuin, paperback, 416 pages
Connection: MC decides to excape the ratrace to begin a vegetable garden.

WoF Sarah

The Midnight Library, audiobook, 288pg equivalent
Connection: main character had depression and many regrets in her life which the book explored through the midnight library to help gain ineight in to the best way to live her life.

(Audiobook, 384 pp) by Alka Joshi has a beautiful magenta cover, but it's also about a woman who serves others by using henna and herbal remedies.

WOF Marie Uk

The Girl in the Eagle's Talons

Eagle on cover
Set in a remote forested area and one of the characters feeds and protects a colony of eagles (albeit with human meat at times)

WOF Emma R.

Vampires Never Get Old: Tales with Fresh Bite
Pages: 268
Connection: cover color for the theme of MagentaNature

WoF Lauri’s Wall
About a Dog 305 pages
Feel-good romance with a wedding and the adoption of an abandoned dog!

WoF Pragya
Madness by Marya Hornbacher
10 hours

Memoir about mental illness (bipolar)

WoF Nix
Alone With You in the Ether by Olivie Blake
288 pages hardcover
Explores themes of mental wellbeing and what it means to love with a mind that is not like the others

I Thought It was Just Me
336 pages
Connection - Self-help. The author writes about overcoming shame.

WoF Jayme

I read Interesting Facts about Space
304 pages
Connection: The MC attends therapy for her Mental Wellness

Oh no, I hope it is not too late to report. I finished my book
This morning and than I had such a busy day, that I completely forgot to post.

Finished: Frenchman's Creek
260 pages
MC escapes from Londons society to find stillness in the nature of the countryside.

WoF Lari’s Wall
The Summer Skies 352 pages

Feel-good novel about a woman pilot who regains her confidence, comes home and realizes her first love is flying…

WoF Pragya
The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness by Elyn Saks
355 pages
memoir of mental illness

Message 1 is now up to date.

Saar - Just checking, message 1 is your final total score? And you had 3 people who did not complete a book?

Yes, that's correct. I've double checked.

Thank you