The Ideal Life, according to Mark Twain

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.  -  Mark Twain

I’m so inspired by what I read, and I thought it would be great to reunite all of my inspirations into one place.  This will allow me to share one of my passions (reading), which is to me as necessary as water and air.  And the love of books and reading has brought good friends into my life….you don’t get through anything without good friends.  Or good books, for that matter.   So I’ll be able to share my good friends’ recommendations here as well.

Tales From the Bed: On Living, Dying, and Having It All    A Memoir by Jenifer Estess as told to Valerie Estess                             

Life On The Refrigerator Door: Notes Between a Mother and Daughter    Alice Kuipers 

Dust To Dust   Timothy Findley  

Polaroids From the Dead    Douglas Coupland    

For One More Day     Mitch Albom 

The Door   Margaret Atwood 

Spirit Games: 300 Fun Activities That Bring Children Comfort and Joy     Barbara Sher

Parent As Mystic Mystic As Parent     David Spangler

Meditations from Conversations with God     Neale Donald Walsch

Pelle the Conqueror    Martin Andersen Nexo

Fault Lines    Nancy Huston

Dolce Agonia: A Novel     Nancy Huston

An Adoration     Nancy Huston

The Mark of the Angel     Nancy Huston

 Prodigy: A Novella     Nancy Huston

Slow Emergencies     Nancy Huston

Diary of a Bad Year     J.M. Coetzee

Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name    Vendela Vida

An Hour to Live, An Hour to Love: The True Story of the Best Gift Ever Given Richard Carlson, Kristine Carlson

Spadework    Timothy Findley

Slaughterhouse: The Shocking Story of Greed, Neglect, and Inhumane Treatment Inside the U.S. Meat Industry           Gail A. Eisnitz   (http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/1573921661/ref=sib_dp_pt/105-9250364-0676436)

Risking Everything: 110 Poems of Love & Revelation     edited by Roger Housden  (http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781400047994)

Four Letter Word: Original Love Letters     edited by Joshua Knelman & Rosalind Porter  (http://www.randomhouse.ca/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307396761)