50 Book Challenge
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sabrinamariWell, I can read without guilt now. Many friends are doing the 50 book challenge, and I'm joining in. Really, it's cheating on my part---I read voraciously and fast, and can knock off 50 books really fast, so it's not actually a challenge for me. For me, books are drugs, and I think of them in the same way I think of working out---my forms of mainlining heroin.
But hey, I might as well count the number of times that I shoot up. And I can give quick reviews. So I'm in. Currently, I'm reading: "What Would Buffy Do? The Vampire Slayer Spiritual Guide," by Jana Reiss, a Ph.D. in divinity who studied at Princeton and Columbia. I'm discovering that the Buddhist themes and strong moral universe of the show are a big part of the reason that I love it so much. I'm also re-reading "Hogfather," cause it's Terry Pratchett, god of fantasy, and seasonally appropriate, "The Beginner's Guide to Walking the Buddha's Eightfold Path," by Jean Smith and then, at work, I just read a chapter of a cool book on the epidemic of obesity in the US (title to come later). Oh, and I'm reading "Forests of the Heart," by Charles de Lint, about a curandera who moves East and starts hanging with a group of ethnically diverse denizens of Faerie. So, OK, I was reading this stuff *while* finishing the diss, and I felt guilty about that, but I'm free now, and can read with a clean conscience. I'll note when I'm done and post bigger reviews to these and then start the next set of drugs, uh, books.
I ordered that round yesterday on Amazon.com---it's a group of 6-7 books on resilience---how to get it, what resiliency looks like, the findings of studies of very resilient people, and a resiliency how-to. Oh, and one book on dealing with narcissistic people successfully without being sucked into the void of their dysfunction---useful for those with controlling, self-absorbed parents, peers and contacts who lean in this direction.
And I'm off to my second therapy appointment today. Yeah, personal transformation! Go, psychotherapy!
But hey, I might as well count the number of times that I shoot up. And I can give quick reviews. So I'm in. Currently, I'm reading: "What Would Buffy Do? The Vampire Slayer Spiritual Guide," by Jana Reiss, a Ph.D. in divinity who studied at Princeton and Columbia. I'm discovering that the Buddhist themes and strong moral universe of the show are a big part of the reason that I love it so much. I'm also re-reading "Hogfather," cause it's Terry Pratchett, god of fantasy, and seasonally appropriate, "The Beginner's Guide to Walking the Buddha's Eightfold Path," by Jean Smith and then, at work, I just read a chapter of a cool book on the epidemic of obesity in the US (title to come later). Oh, and I'm reading "Forests of the Heart," by Charles de Lint, about a curandera who moves East and starts hanging with a group of ethnically diverse denizens of Faerie. So, OK, I was reading this stuff *while* finishing the diss, and I felt guilty about that, but I'm free now, and can read with a clean conscience. I'll note when I'm done and post bigger reviews to these and then start the next set of drugs, uh, books.
I ordered that round yesterday on Amazon.com---it's a group of 6-7 books on resilience---how to get it, what resiliency looks like, the findings of studies of very resilient people, and a resiliency how-to. Oh, and one book on dealing with narcissistic people successfully without being sucked into the void of their dysfunction---useful for those with controlling, self-absorbed parents, peers and contacts who lean in this direction.
And I'm off to my second therapy appointment today. Yeah, personal transformation! Go, psychotherapy!
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Date: 2005-01-11 06:43 pm (UTC)I expect this will overlap, but will not be exhausted by, the common fiction categories of "Science Fiction" and "Fantasy."
For example, Tom Robbins has clearly written novels with an openly Pagan emphasis--"Even Cowgirls get the Blues" and "Jitterbug Perfume," among others.