Q3Weekly-BookBlog #9

ZoneTwoSummer 8/3/25

September #13mins

Aim: 11mins/900words

Home-Branford

700words

[[Slow Living]]
[[Helena Woods]]
[[Future Shock]]
[[Alvin Toffler]]
[[Rethinking Diabetes]]
[[Gary Taubes]]
[[Trying to Keep a Positive Perspective]]

I’m excited to be reading a bunch of new books. And I have finished a bunch as well. I’m going to be talking about 3 books, today, as I also want to trim down, and focus on a few specific books at a time. For me, the month of August and September, it’s been pretty cool. I’m a little less excited, but I’m still in a pretty chill mood, in regards to what I’m understanding. There’s one book that I’ve been really getting super excited about recently, and that is [[Future Shock]], by [[Alvin Toffler]], and it’s an interesting book that tries to predict the future. And I do like what I’m hearing, and it’s a really interesting take on a unique perspective, and how the future can change. I still cannot relay much, and since I am writing, I am noticing I do have gaps, even though I am excited about this book.

Though there are some books that I have finished, that I have to keep in mind, moving forward. I ended up finishing [[Slow Living]], by [[Helena Woods]], and I think for me, this will be an important book. It’s a book that I want to keep in mind, because I genuinely treasure slow living nowadays, as I feel life in America, at least for me, seems to be always in a rush, and I’m not super fond of that. So I wish to take some perspective, from authors like [[Helena Woods]], who have really gone their way to actually write a book about the whole topic, and it’s something that I appreciate.

And I’m also reading [[Autobiography of a Yogi]], by [[Parahamansa Yogananda]], just because, [[Steve Jobs]] was really fond of this book, and I’ve always been curious. I read the Steve Jobs biography, by [[Walter Isaacson]], called [[Steve Jobs]], and it was super cool, back in the day. And I finally got to a point, where I’m just curious about different spiritual methods, and this is an interesting book as well. Just the demeanor of the author, who is actually also fluent in Bengali, which is my first language, at least before the age of 8, which I have perfected more, nowadays. So I am more excited to be finishing this book up as well.

And then, recently, I’ve been really in the depth of trying to understand diabetes, as my dad has had Type II diabetes for the last 20 years, and recently it’s been getting worse, after his UTI scare. And now that he’s having some mild cognitive dementia, I genuinely think I have to be more understanding, and I need to understand more root cause of the situation. And thus, I have started the book, [[Rethinking Diabetes]], by [[Gary Taubes]]. And this is a topic that I really have to explore more, because my mom as well has been exposed to the bad effects of diabetes as well. And she’ll have to start monitoring her glucose levels as well. I have recently learned a little bit more about it, from [[David Perlmutter]], but now that I am firsthand seeing some of the worst repercussions, in front of my eyes, I cannot turn a blind eye anymore.

And for me, this is crucial nowadays, because, it’s either run away, or deal with the actual situations that are in front of me. And I choose to fight, and try to figure out specific things that I can myself do, in order to help the situation, rather than running away from it. Because at the end of the day, diabetes has been around for a very long time. So it’s something that has a lot of history, and gaining some insights will definitely alleviate some of the pressure that I feel nowadays, and I have confidence I can get some good insight. And I genuinely think it’s important that we tackle issues head on, instead of turning a blind eye. And life can be tough, as aging is inevitable, but it’s better to take in the hard stuff as well, rather than ignoring the situation, and think it’s dead-end situation.