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Venus007 · 10-27-2018, 04:47 PM

"The Hero with a Thousand Faces" Joseph Campbell

Still craving fairy tales, myths and folk tales.
I'm digging deeper into the universal underpinnings I suppose

Wrang1er · 10-31-2018, 11:48 AM

A Long Way Home - A Boy's Incredible Journey from India to Australia and Back Again by Saroo Brierley.

I recently watched this movie and it made me want to read the book.

ReadandSnapFemme · 10-31-2018, 01:22 PM

The Theif by J.R. Ward... Not impressed but I will finish it regardless.

homoe · 11-14-2018, 10:46 AM

Susanne Wolff isn’t thrilled when her mother sends her all the way across the country to Freiburg to save her uncle’s stationery store from bankruptcy. Freiburg is too provincial for her taste, and besides, pen and paper are outdated anyway.

Anja Lamm, Paper Love’s only full-time employee, takes an instant dislike to the arrogant, digital-loving snob who’s supposed to be her temporary boss.

If you like journals, diaries, fine writing instruments, and a love story, this book just might be for you!

I'm enjoying it immensely..

PlatinumPearl · 11-14-2018, 11:00 AM

The Power of Now, Eckhard Tolle and The Law of Attraction, Esther and Jerry Hicks.

I'm trying to get my vibration right for a certain manifestation.

homoe · 11-18-2018, 04:20 PM

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The newest Triple A Tour Book that lists places in The Windy City that I may want to check out.....

homoe · 12-13-2018, 12:22 PM

Nothing at the moment...........

Any suggestions?

Lyte · 12-13-2018, 06:48 PM

Couple of weeks ago I was flipping channels, stopped at the local PBS station right when Daniel G. Amen, MD was making the point that Psychology/Psychiatry was the only medical field where the physician doesn't exam the organ/structure that's causing the problem. For example, if you have a problem with digestive system... the Gastroenterologist will x-ray, CAT … etc... etc... scope your guts.

Bone or joint issue... Orthopedists will x-ray, CAT, MRI... etc... etc... your bones. Psychologist/Psychiatrist still (for the most part) make their diagnosis and decide on treatment based on symptoms alone. I thought... yeah, that's true. I became intrigued and bought the book connected to the show...

Feel Better Fast and Make It Last: Unlock Your Brain’s Healing Potential to Overcome Negativity, Anxiety, Anger, Stress, and Trauma

I'm only a couple of chapters in and it's very interesting!

homoe · 12-25-2018, 08:17 PM

Come with Me by Helen Schulman

From Helen Schulman, the acclaimed author of the New York Times bestseller This Beautiful Life, comes another "gripping, potent, and blisteringly well-written story of family, dilemma, and consequence" (Elizabeth Gilbert)—a mind-bending novel set in Silicon Valley that challenges our modern constructs of attachment and love, purpose and fate.

Got it as a gift, looks good...

ProfPacker · 12-29-2018, 12:21 AM

Jill Soloway's book which just came out, She Wants It. Is the first time I read "my story" about being nonbinary genderqueer in a way that really gripped me. I am not talking about her fame or her trans parent or the show. I am talking about her evolution to a butch identity and feeling not male or not female.

homoe · 12-29-2018, 09:54 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by homoe

Come with Me by Helen Schulman

From Helen Schulman, the acclaimed author of the New York Times bestseller This Beautiful Life, comes another "gripping, potent, and blisteringly well-written story of family, dilemma, and consequence" (Elizabeth Gilbert)—a mind-bending novel set in Silicon Valley that challenges our modern constructs of attachment and love, purpose and fate.

Got it as a gift, looks good...

It wasn't! I ended up having Mary return it..

Greco · 01-25-2019, 09:00 PM

"Killing Commendatore" by my favorite
author Haruki Murakami...his latest came out in Oct 2018
is 700pgs if that means anything to you...it is a book to
be read slowly...it is one to savor in this Winter...and it's
just what I'm doing...date a girl who reads?
oh yes, and love a girl who enjoys reading Murakami...smiling
...terrific surreal...magical realism...if you enjoy these you'll
enjoy this novel.

It's interesting that Murakami writes his novels in Japanese
his native language and then they are translated into other
several languages. I sometimes want to learn Japanese to
understand what may be missing from the English
translations...better yet I will begin reading these in my
native language...now that would be interesting...

good reading, Greco

Martina · 01-25-2019, 09:23 PM

I finished Elaine Pagels' Why Religion? about a week ago. It's the memoir of a professor of religious studies. I had read a couple of her books back in the day, so I thought I'd try it. It was good. A lot about grief.

Now, Sigrid Nunez's The Friend

dark_crystal · 01-26-2019, 10:22 AM

With ears: The Last Black Unicorn by Tiffany Haddish.

With eyes: Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

Not a fan of Love in the Time of Cholera. The author should not have attempted to write the interior sexuality of ANY women, and the treatment of the black women is gross.

It's for book club though so i will press on. I guess the Tiffany Haddish book provides some balance at least.

firecat242 · 02-13-2019, 10:35 AM

The Terror Dream by Susan Faludi. Remember Backlash? The saga continues.

Economics by Ha-Joon Chang. Fun book for a stuffy subject. Or I just love economics and will read anything about it.

Wrang1er · 02-19-2019, 04:57 PM

I just finished "Where the Crawdads Sing" by Delia Owens. I loved this book and highly recommend it.

Martina · 02-27-2019, 05:22 AM

I read a book called Winston's War after reading a book about the SAS, so I took a break from war and read a couple of Elizabeth Peters mysteries. They were kinda racist, I thought. Now I am reading The Push, which is a memoir by Tommy Caldwell, a famous rock climber. It's very good.

easygoingfemme · 02-27-2019, 06:26 AM

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Originally Posted by Wrang1er

I just finished "Where the Crawdads Sing" by Delia Owens. I loved this book and highly recommend it.

I've been waiting for this book on reserve at the library for weeks! Maybe it will come in today before the snow tonight. That could be perfect.

cathexis · 02-28-2019, 01:26 AM

The used copy finally came. Glad these village/rural folks couldn't read through the shipping wrap.

Books I've been waiting for are.................Screw the Roses, Send Me the Thorns by Phillip Miller and Molly Devon

Different Loving by Gloria G. Brame, William D. Brame, and Jon Jacobs

homoe · 03-03-2019, 09:54 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cathexis

The used copy finally came. Glad these village/rural folks couldn't read through the shipping wrap.

Books I've been waiting for are.................Screw the Roses, Send Me the Thorns by Phillip Miller and Molly Devon

Different Loving by Gloria G. Brame, William D. Brame, and Jon Jacobs

Hey Bud, next time you've got a doctors appointment haul out one of those and sort of flash it about so anyone sitting near you can see! You'll be the talk of the town........

10-27-2018, 04:47 PM	#3161
Venus007 Member How Do You Identify?: Femme Preferred Pronoun?: Serene Highness ;} Relationship Status: Dreamily contemplating some outrage against conventional morality Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Houston area Posts: 1,362 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 1,417 Thanked 4,746 Times in 1,139 Posts Rep Power: 21474853	"The Hero with a Thousand Faces" Joseph Campbell Still craving fairy tales, myths and folk tales. I'm digging deeper into the universal underpinnings I suppose __________________ . "I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction. " Ayn Rand, Anthem "So you'll die happily for your sins. You'd rather die in guilt then live in love?" Timothy Leary

11-14-2018, 10:46 AM	#3164
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11-14-2018, 11:00 AM	#3165
PlatinumPearl Member How Do You Identify?: Femme, Human Preferred Pronoun?: She, Her Join Date: Jul 2017 Location: Canada Posts: 1,150 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 966 Thanked 2,419 Times in 890 Posts Rep Power: 21474846	Reading... The Power of Now, Eckhard Tolle and The Law of Attraction, Esther and Jerry Hicks. I'm trying to get my vibration right for a certain manifestation.

01-25-2019, 09:00 PM	#3172
Greco Senior Member How Do You Identify?: GNC, not Trans, REAL. TIME. ONLY. Preferred Pronoun?: REAL. TIME. ONLY. Relationship Status: REAL. TIME. ONLY. Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: In a good life. Posts: 3,200 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 11,160 Thanked 6,616 Times in 2,285 Posts Rep Power: 0	Murakami "Killing Commendatore" by my favorite author Haruki Murakami...his latest came out in Oct 2018 is 700pgs if that means anything to you...it is a book to be read slowly...it is one to savor in this Winter...and it's just what I'm doing...date a girl who reads? oh yes, and love a girl who enjoys reading Murakami...smiling ...terrific surreal...magical realism...if you enjoy these you'll enjoy this novel. It's interesting that Murakami writes his novels in Japanese his native language and then they are translated into other several languages. I sometimes want to learn Japanese to understand what may be missing from the English translations...better yet I will begin reading these in my native language...now that would be interesting... good reading, Greco

01-25-2019, 09:23 PM	#3173
Martina Senior Member How Do You Identify?: * Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: * Posts: 4,999 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 13,409 Thanked 18,283 Times in 4,166 Posts Rep Power: 21474854	I finished Elaine Pagels' Why Religion? about a week ago. It's the memoir of a professor of religious studies. I had read a couple of her books back in the day, so I thought I'd try it. It was good. A lot about grief. Now, Sigrid Nunez's The Friend __________________ "No matter how cynical I get, I just can't keep up" - Lily Tomlin

10-31-2018, 11:48 AM	#3162
Wrang1er Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Me, myself and I Join Date: Sep 2011 Location: Here Posts: 1,526 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 6,112 Thanked 7,043 Times in 1,354 Posts Rep Power: 21474851	A Long Way Home - A Boy's Incredible Journey from India to Australia and Back Again by Saroo Brierley. I recently watched this movie and it made me want to read the book.

10-31-2018, 01:22 PM	#3163
ReadandSnapFemme Junior Member How Do You Identify?: Femme Preferred Pronoun?: She Relationship Status: Single Join Date: Jul 2018 Location: Midwest Posts: 59 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 6 Thanked 85 Times in 34 Posts Rep Power: 1208135	The Theif by J.R. Ward... Not impressed but I will finish it regardless.

11-18-2018, 04:20 PM	#3166
homoe Practically Lives Here How Do You Identify?: Butch Relationship Status: ..... Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: 30 minute ferry ride from Seattle Posts: 38,565 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 20,811 Thanked 33,548 Times in 14,914 Posts Rep Power: 21474889	. The newest Triple A Tour Book that lists places in The Windy City that I may want to check out.....

12-13-2018, 12:22 PM	#3167
homoe Practically Lives Here How Do You Identify?: Butch Relationship Status: ..... Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: 30 minute ferry ride from Seattle Posts: 38,565 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 20,811 Thanked 33,548 Times in 14,914 Posts Rep Power: 21474889	Nothing at the moment........... Any suggestions?

12-13-2018, 06:48 PM	#3168
Lyte Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Butch Preferred Pronoun?: Meh... I'm not very particular about this. Relationship Status: Single Join Date: Aug 2016 Location: The south... bleh! Posts: 1,744 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 5,316 Thanked 5,113 Times in 1,504 Posts Rep Power: 21474847	Couple of weeks ago I was flipping channels, stopped at the local PBS station right when Daniel G. Amen, MD was making the point that Psychology/Psychiatry was the only medical field where the physician doesn't exam the organ/structure that's causing the problem. For example, if you have a problem with digestive system... the Gastroenterologist will x-ray, CAT … etc... etc... scope your guts. Bone or joint issue... Orthopedists will x-ray, CAT, MRI... etc... etc... your bones. Psychologist/Psychiatrist still (for the most part) make their diagnosis and decide on treatment based on symptoms alone. I thought... *yeah, that's true. I became intrigued and bought the book connected to the show... Feel Better Fast and Make It Last: Unlock Your Brain’s Healing Potential to Overcome Negativity, Anxiety, Anger, Stress, and Trauma* I'm only a couple of chapters in and it's very interesting!

12-25-2018, 08:17 PM	#3169
homoe Practically Lives Here How Do You Identify?: Butch Relationship Status: ..... Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: 30 minute ferry ride from Seattle Posts: 38,565 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 20,811 Thanked 33,548 Times in 14,914 Posts Rep Power: 21474889	Come with Me by Helen Schulman From Helen Schulman, the acclaimed author of the New York Times bestseller This Beautiful Life, comes another "gripping, potent, and blisteringly well-written story of family, dilemma, and consequence" (Elizabeth Gilbert)—a mind-bending novel set in Silicon Valley that challenges our modern constructs of attachment and love, purpose and fate. Got it as a gift, looks good...

12-29-2018, 12:21 AM	#3170
ProfPacker Member How Do You Identify?: butch/MOC Preferred Pronoun?: Hy/hym/hys but in circumstances like work and some other places she Relationship Status: single Join Date: Sep 2013 Location: nj Posts: 1,365 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 7,023 Thanked 4,816 Times in 1,187 Posts Rep Power: 21474850	Jill Soloway's book which just came out, She Wants It. Is the first time I read "my story" about being nonbinary genderqueer in a way that really gripped me. I am not talking about her fame or her trans parent or the show. I am talking about her evolution to a butch identity and feeling not male or not female.

01-26-2019, 10:22 AM	#3174
dark_crystal Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: jenny Preferred Pronoun?: babygirl Relationship Status: First Lady of the United SMH Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Houston, Texas Posts: 5,445 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 1,532 Thanked 26,551 Times in 4,688 Posts Rep Power: 21474856	With ears: The Last Black Unicorn by Tiffany Haddish. With eyes: Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Not a fan of Love in the Time of Cholera. The author should not have attempted to write the interior sexuality of ANY women, and the treatment of the black women is gross. It's for book club though so i will press on. I guess the Tiffany Haddish book provides some balance at least. __________________

02-13-2019, 10:35 AM	#3175
firecat242 Member How Do You Identify?: Woman first...anything after that is on a need to know basis. Preferred Pronoun?: she Relationship Status: I am in a committed relationship with myself. Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: Right here. Right now. Posts: 165 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 434 Thanked 542 Times in 137 Posts Rep Power: 5753372	The Terror Dream by Susan Faludi. Remember Backlash? The saga continues. Economics by Ha-Joon Chang. Fun book for a stuffy subject. Or I just love economics and will read anything about it. __________________

02-19-2019, 04:57 PM	#3176
Wrang1er Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Me, myself and I Join Date: Sep 2011 Location: Here Posts: 1,526 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 6,112 Thanked 7,043 Times in 1,354 Posts Rep Power: 21474851	I just finished "Where the Crawdads Sing" by Delia Owens. I loved this book and highly recommend it.

02-27-2019, 05:22 AM	#3177
Martina Senior Member How Do You Identify?: * Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: * Posts: 4,999 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 13,409 Thanked 18,283 Times in 4,166 Posts Rep Power: 21474854	I read a book called Winston's War after reading a book about the SAS, so I took a break from war and read a couple of Elizabeth Peters mysteries. They were kinda racist, I thought. Now I am reading The Push, which is a memoir by Tommy Caldwell, a famous rock climber. It's very good. __________________ "No matter how cynical I get, I just can't keep up" - Lily Tomlin

02-28-2019, 01:26 AM	#3179
cathexis Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Trotskyist, Anarcho-syndicalist Preferred Pronoun?: They, Them, Their, Sir Bitch Relationship Status: open Join Date: Sep 2016 Location: Great White North! Posts: 4,332 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 16,812 Thanked 4,705 Times in 1,604 Posts Rep Power: 21474850	The used copy finally came. Glad these village/rural folks couldn't read through the shipping wrap. Books I've been waiting for are.................Screw the Roses, Send Me the Thorns by Phillip Miller and Molly Devon Different Loving by Gloria G. Brame, William D. Brame, and Jon Jacobs