One of my favorite series of all times is the Outlander Series by Diana Gabaldon. It’s just so good that I keep going back to it. I must have read or listened to the whole thing 3 or 4 times

Not to spoil anything, I’ll tell you a bit. The story begins with a young woman, Claire, who just finished her duty as a nurse in the British army during WWII. She gets back together with her husband, Frank, who served as British officer in the war. The year is 1945 and they haven’t seen each other for years. They go on vacation to the Scottish Highlands where Claire hikes up a hill and finds a stone circle that throws her back into the 18th century… That’s where she meets Jamie, the true love of her life…

Is that awesome or what?! This story is just fantastic. Love, war, time travel… Can’t beat that!

As I said I just keep going back to it. There’s no other book that I feel like that about. Whenever things get hard I go back to it - It’s hard to feel too sorry for yourself when Claire and Jamie are going through such hardships, even if you have a broken foot!

I’ve listened to it when working with tight deadlines to finish jewelry collections for runway shows, trade shows, press etc. Listening to Outlander kept my mind off how hard it is to work till 4 am, I’d want to keep working just to hear what happens! Also when traveling on flights on road trips - I almost didn’t want the trip to be over!

So exciting, the new book is coming out soon - can’t wait! And those of you that are hearing about this for the first time - I envy you! You’re in for a real treat!

Here are the books from Amazon in chronological order.

Enjoy!

Keren

The newest one-

The rest of the series:

Malcolm Gladwell is one of my favorite writers. I am now listening to his newest book, Outliers, and I am simply getting goosebumps from the revelations and the implications of what it is he’s saying. His ideas always go back to the thought that small changes can make huge differences, and he explores the concept in the most fascinating ways. I am just blown away by how he can think of finding these angles of and sides to occurrences that are so ordinary and yet so extraordinary at the same time.

Outliers starts with a description of a small village in Italy that basically moved itself and became a small town in Pennsylvania. The amazing thing about this little town is that “these people die of old age; that’s it”. A doctor came to visit the town and discovered that the town people had a very low rate of heart attacks, suicide, depression or anything similar. He began a search to discover the reasons how come these people are so healthy. What he found was astonishing and gives me goose bumps also as I am writing about it . They were not eating healthier, exercising more or harder or meditating an hour a day. I’ll let Gladwell explain the findings himself :o)

I often listen to books while I work. I download them from www.audile.com, it’s the best way to keep up with books when you don’t have time to actually sit and read them - like while you’re driving or crocheting :o) If you do end up signing up please tell Audible that you heard about it from me and give them my user name, kerenpeled. I might get an extra credit and you will get karmic kudos :o) So thank you in advance.

Keren