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Fear and Trust: My Experience with Parable of the Sower and Braiding Sweetgrass
Last week I had a very difficult experience reading the Parable of the Sower. For anyone who would like to read the book, read at your own caution because I am going to discuss it in general terms. Mainly it’s going to be centered around the general topics discussed and the tone and perspective of…
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The Night Circus: We Are Mirrors
I am very much enjoying the book the Night Circus by Erin Morganstern. It is a fantasy set in the late 1800’s through the turn of the century. The book is a smokey enigmatic sort of story, with unfinished scenes and plenty of room for intrigue. The characterization is my favorite sort, show-don’t-tell, with information…
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My Stroke of Insight: My Insights
Yesterday I finished “My Stroke of Insight” and I just want to put it on my list of 100% recommend regardless of who or what you are. Great book. Now it irritates me when people give vague blanket support for something, so I’ll give some reasons. I am the sort of person that is very…
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Who Would Elsa Vote For?
Last year I read a book that changed my perspective on political ideologies. It is called the Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haight, and I have read it twice now. In this book he describes the thoughts and tendencies that then play out to create political differences between people. At the very end of the book,…
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The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue: My Own Invisibility
I’ve been reading the Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, and I don’t know that I’ve read too many other characters in my life that were so much like me. She grows up as a strange child in France, learning to draw in charcoal. She develops a deep fear of marriage and motherhood. She shuns the…
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His Dark Materials: My Dæmon Settles
Kind of for my birthday, kind of for my project with the children’s book, I bought some pastel pencils. I had never heard of pastel pencils until I was on instagram this year and watched people use them. They aren’t the kind of thing public schools buy for children, and high school was the last…
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Ego Is the Enemy: The Ultimatum
Yesterday I was procrastinating, so I picked up a book my mother had given me a few months back. I had been meaning to read it. It was small, and short, and had a rather confrontational title: “Ego is the Enemy.” It was by a man named Ryan Holiday, who I had never heard of.…