I have two new book recommendations for you, but you better read them quickly, as my new one hits shelves August 20th! Mark your calendars, as I'll be going live that afternoon in my
Boo Walker Readers Facebook group to chat about
An Echo in Time, giveaway signed copies, and answer all your questions. Yes, there will be an adult beverage in my hand. I'm going to say it over and over:
Echo is the best book I've ever written.
(I know you're not all on Facebook, so I'll share via other formats after the fact, so long as there are no tech difficulties.)
As you know, I'm a junkie for self-dev books, and I've found a new one that is essential. For my money, one of the most important books released in a decade or more. I've mentioned my love for James R. Doty's
Into the Magic Shop before. He has a new one called
Mind Magic that takes things to a whole new level and has left me gobsmacked. He's a neurosurgeon who went in all the wrong directions before finally finding his truth. He's tight with the Dalai Lama and Eckhart Tolle and does so much to build compassion in the world. I will read this book several times, absorbing every last kernel of its brilliance. In fact, I'm putting it up there with
The Power of Now and
The Seat of the Soul; it's that moving.
On the fiction side, Chris Whitaker has done it again.
We Begin at the End soared to the top of my list of favorites, and his new one is right there with it.
All the Colors of the Dark is a thriller of sorts but is incredibly character driven and often leans into more of the book-club fiction genre, which is where my books land. (Don't ask me what it means…) There is some darkness you have to be okay with, but I'm telling you, the charm of this novel lies in the love these desperate characters feel for one another. Chris's sparse and sharp style cuts right into your chest and wedges deep into your heart. I'm simply floored by his ability. Notice the two authors who gave him blurbs on the cover. I read in one of the few interviews I could find that he was stabbed a few times during an attack when he was younger, and writing saved him. That's the way his prose reads, like he's saving his own life with every sentence.
