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The Art of Shapeshifting - Ted Andrews
Fire in the Head; Shamanism and the Celtic Spirit - Tom Cowan Imagery in Healing: Shamanism and Modern Medicine - Jeanne Achteberg. I am writing a workshop from scratch on Shapeshifting - a little known shamanic practice. These are my references. So far, so good.
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Autobiography of the founder of the US Navy's Seal Team Six.
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I have quite the book list I need to resume. Currently I'm reading "The girl who kicked the hornet's nest" by Stieg Larsson. I've read the series at least 4 times over the last 2 years. If you haven't read his "Millenium series" I highly recommend it.
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Really enjoying the A Song of Fire and Ice books - - by George R. R. Martin. I finished A Game of Thrones very quickly and read A Clash of Kings in 4 days. I have to wait until Thursday (payday) before I can get A Storm of Swords. *sigh*
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A Dance with Dragons (Song of Ice and Fire, Book V)
Persistence: All ways butch and femme Anger: Wisdom for Cooling the Flames (Thich Nhat Hanh) ---------- So, A Dance with Dragons is very groovy so far. I've only read about 5 of the essays out of Persistence but so far it's interesting. And I haven't opened Anger yet. I'm resenting it's presence in my house at the moment. I intend to read it. But first I have to forgive it for violating my space and forcing me to realize I need better communication skills. *ahem* ... Yeah. So A Dance with Dragons is good |
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I cant remember the name or the author (Jodi Piccoult or something like that) but its a novel about a teenaged boy who has Aspergers and loves forensics and ends up being accused of murder. How the system handles him is awful and yet, thru the book, it shows exactly how terrifying the world can be for someone with Aspergers. Wonderfully done...
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A Storm of Swords by George R.R. Martin (Song of Fire and Ice, Book 3).
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A Man in Full (1998) by Tom Wolfe
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Finally reading S. Bear Bergman's Butch is Noun along with a fabulous butch--amazing discussions!
Being read to: Emmanuelle by Emmanuelle Arsan...yummy, sensuous, prose...
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'The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making' by Catherynne M. Valente It is YA fiction, it was sweet and quirky and charming; but quite a slow read. Probably best for the 10 and under crowd. Now I'm thinking perhaps this... 'The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ' by Philip Pullman (the author of the His Dark Materials Trilogy including the Golden Compass) from amazon: "The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ is the remarkable new piece of fiction from best-selling and famously atheistic author Philip Pullman. By challenging the events of the gospels, Pullman puts forward his own compelling and plausible version of the life of Jesus, and in so doing, does what all great books do: makes the reader ask questions. In Pullman’s own words, “The story I tell comes out of the tension within the dual nature of Jesus Christ, but what I do with it is my responsibility alone. Parts of it read like a novel, parts like history, and parts like a fairy tale; I wanted it to be like that because it is, among other things, a story about how stories become stories.” Written with unstinting authority, The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ is a pithy, erudite, subtle, and powerful book by a controversial and beloved author. It is a text to be read and reread, studied and unpacked, much like the Good Book itself."
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Is anyone here a Haruki Murakami fan?
I'm looking for a recommendation. I enjoyed 'Sputnik Sweetheart' quite a bit -but- couldn't get through the first few chapters of 'Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World' it was incomprehensible to me. I think I found 'Sputnik Sweetheart' a bit easier because it was more linear with less layers and layers of fantasy and I didn't have to wait so long to "get it". I love the surrealism & the post-modernism of his writing. I like the themes and his humour. But some of his works feel so barren, so stripped of emotional depth that I just can't get in to them. Or maybe its a cultural thing? Anyone?
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Hi Sparkle,
I have read a Wild Sheep Chase by this author. It is a very short read 110 ten pages total. It is very Monty Python-ish. So, if you like that type of humor you will like this book. It is a mock-detective tale that follows an unnamed Japanese man through Tokyo and Hokkaidō in 1978. The passive, chain-smoking main character gets swept away on an adventure that leads him on a hunt for a sheep that hasn’t been seen for years. The apathetic protagonist meets a woman with magically seductive ears and a strange man who dresses as a sheep and talks in slurs; in this way there are elements of Japanese animism or Shinto. There is a sequel to it as well entitled Dance, Dance, Dance which follows the adventures of the Sheep Man and the protagonist from the first book. I have not read the ones you have mentioned. However, you did ask for a recommendation so I would try the short read and see what you think. Happy Reading !! Quote:
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Torture at the back forty. The gang rape and slaying of Margaret Anderson. By Mike Dauplaise
I was 11 years old when this all happened within 10 miles of my childhood home. From what I can tell, the book doesn't have the detail of the crime that was reported on the local news at the time. (that's ok. it's just sickening.) I have met relatives of a few involved in this over the years, still not much willingness to talk about it though. I saw the book in the bargain bin at B and N. Thought I would give it a try. I can only read it in little bits but, it is helping me understand somethings I just had no way of understanding when I was 11.
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Reading "Becoming Marie Antoinette" by Juliet Grey. I'm a sucker for well-written historical fiction. This one is in first person (not my favorite POV).
I'm enjoying this very sympathetic look at the child who was an spoiled archduchess of Austria. She was quite literally recreated for the French court. About halfway through. I'm also still reading book four of the "A Song of Fire and Ice" quartet. Had to stop to let a co-worker catch up. LOL We are having a mini-book club. |
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