“Live for a while in the books you love.”

Learn from them what is worth learning, but above all love them. This love will be returned to you a thousand times over. Whatever your life may become, these books— of this I am certain—will weave through the web of your unfolding.They will be among the strongest of all threads of your experiences, disappointments, and [...]

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Books for the Holidays

Everywhere we look this week, it seems that the pace of life has been set to Holiday Mode.  Macy’s has decked their outer facade with wreaths and lovely strands of white lights, the street lamps of San Francisco are adorned with silver stars, and the Holiday shopping list I started in August sits untouched in [...]

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Prose for Prisoners

The Millions linked us to a great story yesterday about a new program being introduced by Exeter University in the UK called Stories Connect, which exposes prisoners to the classic stories and poems of Dickens, Steinbeck, Shakespeare and other literary pillars. Based on a successful US program, Changing Lives, Stories Connect aims to use literature [...]

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1 Day, 100 bloggers, 100 green books, 100 reviews

There are ways to justify the use of wood pulp as a vehicle for the printed word.  Trees keep us alive by providing oxygen so we can breathe, but BOOKS, to a book lover, provide just about everything else. We at GBiBT are blissful but not unaware of the environmental impact of our favorite media.  So though [...]

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Reach Out and Read for Children

Today at GBiBT, we wanted to spotlight an important charity that helps to establish a habit of reading in the lives of young children by giving new books to children and advice to parents about the importance of reading.
Reach Out and Read, founded in 1989, serves 3.8 million toddlers, infants and preschoolers nationwide by training medical providers at [...]

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The Gift of Music

In good times and bad, music heals.  Another healing salve is the ability to approach life more playfully.  Enter a book that teaches both—music and general lightheartedness.  How to Play the Harmonica and other Life Lessons by Sam Barry is a series of 17 lessons about playing the harmonica, and, well, just playing.
Peppered throughout you’ll [...]

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Guest Post from: Vaishali author of Wisdom Rising

GBiBT is happy to host a guest article from Vaishali the author of Wisdom Rising and You Are What You Love. She is also a natural health & wellness practitioner and radio host of “You Are What You Love” on heard weekly on KTLK 1150am Sunday 11-noon PST in greater LA and Santa Barbara and [...]

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Contest: An Altar in the World by Barbara Brown Taylor

Fans of Eat, Pray, Love or Animal, Vegetable, Miracle most likely, will also be familiar with acclaimed spiritual author and preacher, Barbara Brown Taylor, author of AN ALTAR IN THE WORLD and LEAVING CHURCH.
As a writer she has opened up the meaning of faith to include everyday living and offered ways to observe it outside of [...]

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