What I read May

I am linking up with Modern Mrs Darcy's Quick Lit. I am late to this party but thought I would post anyways.

Ah, my reading has picked up a little. I have been on a bit of the struggle bus with my book club book. 

The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt

I would have never in a million years picked this book to read. This book was part of Sharon Says So book club.  I learned a bit about moral psychology. This is the kind of book that sticks with you. I am glad I kept reading. There are a lot of takeaways but the one that I got if how we feel comes first and then we find facts to support our feelings. Secondly there needs to be trust and truth to have a democracy. Our book club also got to have a author talk, and I thought Jonathan Haidt had a lot of good stuff to share especially about the current political climate.  I like the pledge he wants people to take.

I will take less offense.

I will give less offense. 

I will pass along less offense.

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Living the Quaker Way by Phillip Gulley

I picked this book up because I am doing some ancestry research, and this is the only hard copy book that my library had on Quakers.  I thought it was an easy read but mostly about modern day Quaker theology. It does a decent job of discussing the tenants of Quakerism. 

Dough by Mort Zachter

I picked this up from my library. I thought it was well written and a very interesting story.

Mort Zachter's childhood revolved around a small, struggling shop on Manhattan's Lower East Side that sold bread and pastries. His was a classic story—a close-knit, hard-working family struggling to make it in America.

Only they were rich. Very rich.

At age thirty-six, after struggling to work his way though night school, Zachter discovered that his bachelor uncles, who ran the shop, had amassed millions of dollars in stocks and bonds. As he starts to clean out their apartment, Zachter discovers clues to their hidden lives that raise more questions than they answer. And in the end, he comes to realize that although he may not understand his family—and maybe never will—forgiveness and acceptance are what matter most. - Amazon