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The Canada reads long list has thus far, been eventful, depressing, boring, I'm currently struggling with two awful ones, after a depressing but recommended indigenous one. Very well done. Darrel J. McLeod, "Mamaskatch". I don't think I've ever struggled as much with the long list as I have this year. I didn't even watch/listen to the show this year.
 
I'm reading an older text on mood and personality ... a spin off of Freud's growth of psyche (in some 7 steps) that is a complex evaluation of the 3 sided psyche, mind, soul (dislike) ability. People fear if you can into it that you can read their mine's in the dig. They don't realize that part of the common process is compartmentalized. Roots of the oubliette? It is like the four Wahls Theory!

Still; they do not like to hear of it and thus silent processing in the dark ... Gamma? Ineffable ... like X in mystery ... it collects on Zae-X and reproduces, illogically! Just too much of the same ole things Dan ... purple stains???? A sad Torah indeed ...
 
I just finished City of Thieves by David Benioff. It sure is a vivid depiction of the siege of Leningrad. Lots of graphic scenes but I couldn’t put it down.
 
I've just started reading, "A Thousand Names for Joy (Living In Harmony with the Way Things Are) by Byron Katie. So far she's an amazing writer with some interesting insights.
Because I've only started reading it, I'll suggest you Google it, if you need to know more.
 
Been reading The Anglo Saxons by Marc Morris, a history of Anglo-Saxons in Britain (so roughly from when the Romans leave in 410 CE to the Norman invasion of 1066 CE). I heard the author interviewed when the podcast Gone Medieval did a series on the four most powerful of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms and it's a pretty good popular history. Copiously endnoted but not academic in style. Most recently read a whole chapter on a significant Christian figure, St. Wilfred. Was a major leader in the Anglo-Saxon church during the 7th century CE when not all the kingdoms had yet converted and some of those who did were wavering. He was also a seriously terrible human being on some levels and not at all what we might consider "saintly". Even sided with a pagan Anglo-Saxon leader against a Christian one at one point because he felt his interests were better served by the former. It was a rather weird, chaotic world and that's even before the Danes (i.e. Danish Vikings) came in and conquered the lot at one point.

I keep being tempted by The Last Kingdom historical fiction series by Bernard Cornwell, which is set in this era, but it is so long. However, I can see the appeal of writing during the Anglo-Saxon period so might give it a shot, though I've been dodging long series ever since I abandoned A Song of Ice and Fire (aka A Game of Thrones). At least Cornwell's series is finished.
 
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I've just finished another ghastly Canada Reads longlist book with a huge sigh of relief. I've never read such a string of bad books. One "not too awful" one in the middle, "Sunshine Nails", which I'm going to recommend as the best of the bunch thus far, but it's not great. Don't read Happy Hour by Marlowe Granados.
 
I'm reading Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom by Ilyon Woo. It is not a novel. It does read like one though. It's about Ellen and William Craft who self-emancipated in 1848. She passed a white sickly young man and he acted as her slave. The travelled from Macon Georgia to Philadelphia. It's an excellent and compelling book.

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Reading stories from a collection by speculative fiction writer (she hits both sf and fantasy, sometimes in the same story) Premee Mohamad. Title of the collection is No One Will Come Back for Us and Other Stories. Very good stories so far. I have been hearing her name for some time now but only just getting around to giving her a look. Besides her writing, she's a scientist and is social media manager and associate editor for the s-f story podcast Escape Pod.
 
I recently read a book that really made me think. It's A Sky Full of Elephants by Cebo Campbell. It's a story where all the white people in the US suddenly walk into the nearest body of water and drown. Charles Brunton and his daughter Sidney embark on a journey to essentially find themselves.

This book kept me engaged to the end. What happens if what you think you want comes to pass? How do you discover your identity, your true self, without the definitions the world has put on you? Lots to think about for us all.
 
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I recently read a book that really made me think. It's A Sky Full of Elephants by Cebo Campbell. It's a story where all the white people in the US suddenly walk into the nearest body of water and drown. Charles Brunton and his daughter Sidney embark on a journey to essentially find themselves.

This book kept me engaged to the end. What happens if what you think you want comes to pass? How do you discover your identity, your true self, without the definitions the world has put on you? Lots to think about for us all.
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I just completed The Primal Wound an investigation into stress syndrome, sickness of a abstract item that we are ignorant of ... temporal portion of the limited psyche (mortal). It is really difficult and hard literature but hypnotic as it deals with mental trauma. I've been told there is no such thing as psyche it is part and parcel of belief in the non existent ... like things gone by ... then there is the section on the psyche drift ... ultimate wanderer?

Imagine the negative side of existential BS! It can be calm posted ... stuff on a stick? In virtue this stuff oozes ...

It was a great companion to The Myth of Normal ... the comprehension of a floating point deci mation ... a mash?
 
I'm reading Sarah Polley's book "Run Towards the Danger". I'm currently reading her second essay which is features Jian Ghomeshi and the events that led to his break with CBC. Disturbing.
 
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I'm reading Sarah Polley's book "Run Towards the Danger". I'm currently reading her second essay which is features Jian Ghomeshi and the events that led to his break with CBC. Disturbing.
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Many folk will not read into turbulent stories ... they attribute that to myth and it just can't be true ... thus the unconscious psyche begins to construct! It may seem hypnotic if not traumatic ... been there, dome that ... thus I am so well ignored ... I have many unbelievable stories for those that only see good ... an OS height proposal ... some say no crap! It may be the way they hold their tongue when pained ... it becomes unconscious ... my dad was like that right up till a few days before he crossed off the list ...
 
Northwind said:
I recently read a book that really made me think. It's A Sky Full of Elephants by Cebo Campbell. It's a story where all the white people in the US suddenly walk into the nearest body of water and drown. Charles Brunton and his daughter Sidney embark on a journey to essentially find themselves.

This book kept me engaged to the end. What happens if what you think you want comes to pass? How do you discover your identity, your true self, without the definitions the world has put on you? Lots to think about for us all.
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This was a fantastic book. The author has a lyrical way with words, which I really appreciate. The story was imaginative and raised so many issues of how we are formed. There were many many moment to stop and ponder assumptions, biases, beliefs. Thanks Northwind for suggesting it in the first place!

I'm presently reading Life Isn't Binary; and next up is Sage Warrior by Valarie Kaur.
 
Read an article about redistribution of wealth in Austria from a you woman that was left millions ... the story indicated great difficulty ... it appeared to me due to narcists! Thes do blossom when wealth is involved in the grab bag ... thus it goes from the commonwealth!

Pure empirics ...un balanced mostly ... allowing for wobble ... thus authority can avoid some topical matter ...
 
I confess to indulging in a re-reading of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. So charming, so imaginative, and so very funny.
 
I just started reading The Salish Sea by Susan Lund. It's nice to read a book that's in this area. I realized I read one of her other books. It was a freebie on Kobo. Not high literature. Still a good read.
 
I was reading on the question of theology since it is all taken to be Theo Rae ... so much to query! That exotic Ayer ...
 
Just finished "The Life Impossible" by Matt Haig - an enjoyable read. Still wandering through "The Soul of Money" & "Life Isn't Binary". Next up - "Restoring Sanity" by Margaret Wheatley.
 
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