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This popped up in my Facebook feed this morning and immediately I felt I had to share it with this group. Maybe there's someone here who really needs to hear this. Watch | Facebook (<5 mins) Don't let your life get paralysed by someone else's negativity.

My tastes vary genre-wise - depending on what mood I'm in - so I often wind up reading several books at a time - but I'm not a fast reader, so it might take me 3 months to finish several books. For fiction I like action/thriller/ techno-thriller/sci-fi stuff - - some of my fav authors are Stephen Hunter, Janet Evanovich, Lee Child, Philip K. Dick, C.J. Lyons, John Grisham, Tom Clancy, H.G. Wells, Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, George Orwell, Kurt Vonnegut, Stephen King, Michael Crichton, James Rollins...late last year I finished "The Eye of God" by James Rollins - and have not started reading another novel yet. For non-fiction I jump around on what interests me at the time: history, philosophy, science, technology, theology...I recently finished "Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived" by Rob Bell. I started reading "The Tao of Psychology: Synchronicity and the Self" by Jean Shinoch Bolen... I've also been reading a few other books - "Tao Te Ching: Annotated & Explained" translation and annotation by Derek Lin. (after starting Bolen's book I wanted to look into taoism - fascinating stuff!)... "Understanding The Bible: An Introduction for Skeptics, Seekers, and Religious Liberals" by John A. Buehrens..."Beyond the Messy Truth: How We Came Apart, How We Come Together" by Van Jones..."The God Equation: The Quest for a Theory of Everything" by Michio Kaku...and "Music Theory for The Bass Player" by Ariane Cap. Like I said, I'm not a fast reader - and sometimes I have to back up and re-read a section if I have a tough time comprehending something - so in a given day I might read parts of several books - like someone would series-surf on Netflix or Hulu, catching a few episodes of different series...uhm - I do that too...one of the luxuries of being retired. Here's what else is in the lineup for reading this year - in no particular order: "Systematic Theology: An Introduction to Christian Belief" by John M. Frame "The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History" by Elizabeth Kolbert "Sapians: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari "The U.S. Constitution for Dummies" by Dr. Michael Arnheim "The New Testament In Its World: An Introduction to the History, Literature, and Theology of the First Christians" by N.T. Wright and Michael F. Bird "How To Be An Antiracist" by Ibram X. Kendi "White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism" by Robin Diangelo "Sick in the Head: Conversations About Life and Comedy" by Judd Apatow "The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself" by Sean Carroll My reading interests are varied - but my retention is weak. So I have an ongoing read-and-review-list of books that I really enjoyed - and I maintain the list on paper - it's sort of like a self-imposed remedial program for someone like me who has challenges in comprehension and retention ... anyway - I started it way back in 1990, I think - it has some 250 books on it so far - and I already know I'm going to add "Love Wins" and "The Tao of Psychology" to the list. Being on the list doesn't necessarily mean I'm going to re-read the entire book; sometimes I just go to sections I've highlighted/bookmarked (on Kindle) or if it's a printed book I'll refer to my own index I've made at the front of the book - to again enjoy or think deeper on the author's salient points. I didn't put any fiction books on my to-read-list - that usually depends on if I need a break from non-fiction stuff - a telltale sign is when I see smoke coming out of my ears.