I received a copy of Breathe: The Simple Revolutionary 14-Day Program to Improve Your Mental and Physical Health by Dr. Belisa Vranich from St. Martin's Press. I pulled a muscle in my neck right before Christmas and have been doing yoga to help work on that stiffness and pain. This book claims that it is also good for neck pain along with a myriad of other ailments so I was eager to give it a try. I have not yet done the 14 day program but I have done all of the stretches and breathing exercises in the book and they feel really good! Most of the movements are very similar to yoga but the focus is really about getting a person to breathe properly as we once did when we were children. There are quite a few testimonials throughout the book that talk about different conditions that have been helped by following this practice and I found it really fascinating. Here is a link if you want to check it out on Goodreads. I think this book would be great for anyone but really for those that are feeling stressed and need to take a moment and slow down and focus. I will be keeping up with these techniques and hopefully they will aid in helping my neck pain.
The Light Before Day by Suzanne Woods Fisher is the third book in her Nantucket Legacy series. I did not read the first book in the series but I did read the second when it came out earlier this year. While I enjoyed the continuation of characters, I feel that this could be a stand alone novel. When I read book two in the series, I found the language of the book to be a bit of a challenge. I will say that having already once been emerged in this world, I did not find that to be an issue with this book. The author does however include a handy list of definitions if some of the language is tricky. This book follows the twins Hitty and Henry who are now grown and receiving an inheritance from their grandmother that has a few stipulations attached. Along with the story of the characters growing and developing relationships, this book also covers important social issues of the time. This was a part of the book that I really enjoyed. I also liked the inclusion of the ancestors journal wh...
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