What are you reading?

It's hard enough to find the time to sit down and read, let alone the time to sift through books to find something worth reading. So let's save each other some time and share our "good reads." What animal- or career-related literature or books are you flipping through and loving?

This isn't career-related, but it's a very good read. I just finished "Death by Cashmere," written by our very own Sally Goldenbaum. (Sally is the editor of Custom Veterinary Media here at Advanstar.) It's a great whodunit and will keep you guessing until the very end. I highly recommend it for the murder mystery lover.

I'm reading While You're Here, Doc: Farmyard Adventures of a Maine Veterinarian by Dr. Bradford B. Brown.

There's a really funny story in there about a client's cat named Bugs who goes everywhere with his owner, even to church. Well, Bugs was at church one day and attacked a lady sitting in front of him who was wearing a fur coat. Bugs tore her fur coat to shreds. The lady beat Bugs with her Bible and causing him to have breathing problems.

Good to great!  Good old business related book! :)

Outliers by Malcom Gladwell.  His other books, Tipping Point and Blink are also great reads. Not to mention How doctor think by Jerome Groopman.

Over the past five years my life has changed significantly and for the better! The journey started with Louis Richmond and Mark Epstein and has been enlightening each step of the way since. I invite you to pick up any one of these books and see if they touch your life too. If I was in charge each one of these books would be on the curriculum in every public and private school. If we all learned these lessons as developing adults our world would be a better place. It may be late for "our" generation but not for the next one! 

Personal Development and Communications:

Debbie Ford  - Why Good People Do Bad Things, The Right Questions and The Dark Side of the Light Chasers 

Marshall B. Rosenberg, PhD - Non Violent Communication

Eckhart Tolle - A New Earth

Don Miguel Ruiz - The Four Agreements

Louis Richmond  - Work as a Spiritual Practice

Mark Epstein, M.D. - Going to Pieces Without Falling Apart and Going on Being (updated 2008)

A few quick reads for work and life!

John G. Miller - QBQ! The Question Behind The Question

and last but NOT least;

Roger Fisher and William Ury - Getting to Yes