My book stack this month includes getting an education on the glycemic index and the glycemic load to see if it makes any difference in the way my blood sugar levels react. 

Here is the list:

The New Glucose Revolution by Dr. Jennie Brand-Miller, Dr. Thomas M. S. Wolever, Kaye Foster-Powell, Dr. Stephen Colagiuri

The Low GI Diet Revolution by Dr. Jennie Brand-Miller, Kaye Foster-Powell, Joanna McMillan-Price

Glycemic Load Diet Cookbook by Rob Thompson, MD, and Dana Carpender

The GI Mediterranean Diet by Dt. Fedon Alexander Lindberg

The Complete Idiot's Guide, Glycmic Index Weight Loss by Lucy Beale, and Joan Clark-Warner, MS RD CDE

on the spiritual side:

The Naked Gospel, by Andrew Farley

The Remarkable Record of Job, Henry M. Morris

Have you ever felt guilty when you returned a library book and didn't read it...or maybe purchased one you just couldn't get into at the moment?  

I heard someone say once, that I needed to make the books work for me.  Just because I pulled them into my pile at the library doesn't mean I have an obligation to read it.  So it set me free to read in a whole different context.  

Sometimes I get a book that really speaks to me in my current life situation...I usually finish these books quickly and entirely.  I use these books for my benefit. 

Then there are books I pull for other reasons.   

This is how my stack works: Some books the stack are books I'm re-reading. Maybe I've just scanning them for something I remember reading before or maybe something I've perhaps missed the first time.   

I usually have a stack of "just read", (I make sure I go back and re-read what I have underlined just to make sure I got it), then there are the books in the stack that I'm currently reading.  

Next in the line up are the ones that I want to get to...so they might stay in the line up for awhile. Unless I can put life on hold and find a place to hide and read!

Also, there are the books that "float" in and out of my stack, because I'll remember reading something in another book and I'll go retrieve it.  It helps me to put the pieces together! I usually have lots of floaters and re-reads.  These may not get read in their entirety this go around. I sometimes just read the chapter titles, headings or underlines. I never read without a pencil, pen, or highlighter.  

I might read a book for  awhile and it was great, I reaped a lot of good information I could apply, but some of the chapters didn't apply to me or it just wasn't ready to absorb it all.  I'll put it down and come back to it later.

When you find a good book that really helps you with an issue, even a fiction book that you read for your enjoyment, it is an investment not only into your life and your personal library for a lifetime or maybe for a short season of time.  Either way it's served it's purpose.  On the other hand there might be books I don't agree with the opinion of the writer, or it just not a "good fit".  If it doesn't serve the purpose or goes against the purpose for which you got it, don't feel guilty for not reading it.  

Let's get off the quilt trip.  Books are fun!  Sometimes books are not benefiting to our current season or life at all.  Let's make them work for us, don't work for them. 

Grab a book...yes you can, we have many more miles to go! 

What we think about has a lot to do with what we perceive  as truth.  Lately I've been trying to get to the root issues and core beliefs whichI think about myself.  Discovering if the things I believe are in reality true or just what I perceive as truth.  

Maybe I've been deceived by what I have received.  Believe it or not, this subject of our thoughts has been a key in my recovery from obesity.  Here are just a few title of some books I've investigated this month.

How my stack works: Some in the stack are books I'm re-reading and are still in the stack from the last post.  

I usually have a stack of "just read", (I make sure I go back and re-read what I have underlined just to make sure I got it), then there are the books in the stack that I'm currently reading.  

Next in the line up are the ones that I want to get to...so they might stay in the line up for awhile. Unless I can put life on hold and find a place to hide and read!

Also, there are the books that "float" in and out of my stack, because I'll remember reading something in another book and I'll go retrieve it.  It helps me to put the pieces together! I usually have lots of floaters and re-reads.  These may not get read in their entirety this go around. I sometimes just read the chapter titles, headings or underlines. I never read without a pencil, pen, or highlighter.  

Here's to those wonderful people who write books.   

February reading list: 

Re-reads:

See Yourself as God Sees You, by Josh McDowell

Who Switched Off My Brain?  controlling toxic thoughts and emotions by Dr. Caroline Leaf

In the process:

Tired of Trying to Measure Up / getting free from the demands, expectations, ad intimidations of well-meaning people, by Jeff VanVonderen

Healing is a Choice, ten decisions that will transform your life and ten lies that can prevent you from making them, by Stephen Arterburn (same author as Feeding Our Appetites- great book)

Floaters:

Soul Care by Peter Lord (this book appears in my stacks quiet often) 

Be Ye Transformed, by Chuck and Nancy Missler

The Way of Agape, by Chuck and Nancy Missler

On Standby, Want to read: Can't wait:  (I need a retreat) 

Thin Within, By Judy Halliday and Arthur Halliday

Transforming Grace by Jerry Bridgers 

My reading goal for 2010 is to read books on breaking free from shame.  I know it doesn't sound like exciting reading material, unless you are tired of measuring up and need a break...for life!   

I'll be sharing more about this topic of getting set free from shame on upcoming blog post, until then, here's what is in my reading stack...

Shame Off You, by Alan D. Wright

Tired of Trying To Measure Up, by Jeff VanVonderen

Healing is a Choice, by Stephen Arterburn

The Ancient Language of Eden, by Don Milam

66 Love Letters, by Dr. Larry Crabb

The Secret Place, by Dale A. Fife

On the top of my stack of books this month: 

In My Father's Vineyard by Wayne Jacobsen

The Secrets of the Vine by Bruce Wilkinson

The Lost Secret of the New Covenant by Malcom Smith (out of print) but you may find it online

The Two Covenants by Andrew Murray

Prevention Magazine Dec 2009 

Weight Watchers Magazine