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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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Math in America
When I was a child learning math, I felt like I was walking through fog. Each step would present itself, smoky and hazy out of the mist, with the rest of the path obscured. My teacher would say “Today we learn addition, everyone repeat after me.” I would listen for a few days, and then…
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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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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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Perspective: Suffering is Optional
So today I heard of Camus’s theory of absurdism and I loved it. It fits well with Gilbert’s view of Tricksters and trickster energy. I had no idea someone had laid out my philosophy before. The meaning of life, the eventual necessity of death, creates a conflict within us all. Not only is our own…
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Shrugging the Burden of Potential
Hi, my name is Cassandra and I am 30 years old. I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder type two nearly exactly a decade ago. That is not precisely true, as I was initially only diagnosed with major depressive disorder. The antidepressants sent me rapid cycling and a few months later I was on lithium. I…