The first books we’re drawn to contain who we are ❤️📚 That was true for me and the rebellious books about magic and magical creatures I first loved on my own terms. I was privileged enough to be affirmed in my dreams of being a writer when I was a kid. I’m glad you found your way there.
I love that your therapist recommends books. The first book I remember buying was in second grade via the Troll Books Club: "Ramona & Her Mother" by Beverly Clearly. As someone who spends a lot of time in the children's section of the library these days, I am happy to report, it's a whole other world out here for kids (at least in the Bay). I'm reparenting myself!
What a time, I remember the lock Ms. Clearly had on all of our youthful reading minds and at the book fairs. This idea of reparenting yourself through books for your shorty is darling. Tembe at Extracurricular wrote about children's books, you should check it out. xo
So I distinctly remember from my own childhood in the early 00s black authored book festivals in Brooklyn that my mom would drive around to. She was on a mission that my picture books be super diverse and those formative book years can really shape your relationship to books. But love this list and added a few to mine !!
Any excuse to buy books is what I think our mother's might have unknowingly instilled in us, and I love that for them and us. Happy to add to your TBR pile.
Of course, love me some Extracurricular, and so happy to have Homebodies on my shelf (it didn't even have time to hit the TBR pile, I went right into it and didn't put it down).
This is such a great list! Thank you for sharing. I read How We Show up three years ago. It's such a transformative tome. Mia forces you to think about community care in a way that is so contrary to our society. I was so happy to see it on this list.
i love books and so i stopped here to see someone else share their love of books.
my first remembered *chosen* book was a very large edition of pinocchio on day one of grade one from the small town rural 1 room 2 grades school. i still remember parts of it!
you asked for books in my to-be-read list. hmmmm. i have 400 now, i think. from that list i'll put the 5 more recently added that i think are the most pressing/important/interesting:
Meeting Faith: The Forest Journals of a Black Buddhist Nun by adele faith. (i read an essay or chapter extraction by her and her writing is extraordinary and amazing.)
Journalists for Hire: How the CIA Buys the News, by Udo Ulfkotte. (he was likely assassinated by the cia a few months after his book was published - death by venom induced heart attack from the cia developed heart attack gun.)
The Great Failure: A Bartender, A Monk, and My Unlikely Path to Truth by Natalie Goldberg . (I've read two of her previous books, and really excellent and interesting. you may find her 'how to write' book inspirational. Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within.)
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by david graeber. (his book debt: the first 5000 years is a critically important read to begin dismantling the official stories of the winning colonists. it moves outside of both the official winners and most of the official critiques of the winners with a completely different look at the dissemination of society as a debt-slavery driven activity.)
16 Maps of Hell*: The Unraveling of Hollywood Superculture by Jasun Horsley (the previous two books i've read by him are great. the first dismantles much of the 'official' history of society by showing its connection to fabian ideals of expanding the occult and the use of sexual abuse to manufacture consensus. it begins with his own likely experience of having been sexually abused as a young boy within the sphere of that being an acceptable activity. the Vice of Kings: How Socialism, Occultism, and the Sexual Revolution Engineered a Culture of Abuse; and his experience with a cult and leaving it. really excellent, Dark Oasis. he has just published Big Mother: The Technological Body of Evil that looks fascinating.)
well, that's enough from my most recent top 10 books.
i had a library of about 1200 books, mostly read, before i experienced the yogic request to commit to aperigraha, the releasing of those things in mind and body that no longer serve the highest spiritual path for me. now i have about 15 or so books and my book reading consumption is way way down. less than 10 last year and likely about the same this year. and i'm learning to read spanish, which is slowing even that down.
all the best with what is, with peace, respect, love and gratitude.
Such a good article! 📚📚📚
The first books we’re drawn to contain who we are ❤️📚 That was true for me and the rebellious books about magic and magical creatures I first loved on my own terms. I was privileged enough to be affirmed in my dreams of being a writer when I was a kid. I’m glad you found your way there.
I love this idea that our little selves, are perhaps our truest selves and that what we read then reveals a bit of who we are now. thanks so much.
I love that your therapist recommends books. The first book I remember buying was in second grade via the Troll Books Club: "Ramona & Her Mother" by Beverly Clearly. As someone who spends a lot of time in the children's section of the library these days, I am happy to report, it's a whole other world out here for kids (at least in the Bay). I'm reparenting myself!
What a time, I remember the lock Ms. Clearly had on all of our youthful reading minds and at the book fairs. This idea of reparenting yourself through books for your shorty is darling. Tembe at Extracurricular wrote about children's books, you should check it out. xo
So I distinctly remember from my own childhood in the early 00s black authored book festivals in Brooklyn that my mom would drive around to. She was on a mission that my picture books be super diverse and those formative book years can really shape your relationship to books. But love this list and added a few to mine !!
Any excuse to buy books is what I think our mother's might have unknowingly instilled in us, and I love that for them and us. Happy to add to your TBR pile.
Loved this!! And thank you for the mention :)
Of course, love me some Extracurricular, and so happy to have Homebodies on my shelf (it didn't even have time to hit the TBR pile, I went right into it and didn't put it down).
This is such a great list! Thank you for sharing. I read How We Show up three years ago. It's such a transformative tome. Mia forces you to think about community care in a way that is so contrary to our society. I was so happy to see it on this list.
Thanks for your review, I’m really excited to get it in the mail soon, I’ll read it right away!📚
hola, jet.
i love books and so i stopped here to see someone else share their love of books.
my first remembered *chosen* book was a very large edition of pinocchio on day one of grade one from the small town rural 1 room 2 grades school. i still remember parts of it!
you asked for books in my to-be-read list. hmmmm. i have 400 now, i think. from that list i'll put the 5 more recently added that i think are the most pressing/important/interesting:
Meeting Faith: The Forest Journals of a Black Buddhist Nun by adele faith. (i read an essay or chapter extraction by her and her writing is extraordinary and amazing.)
Journalists for Hire: How the CIA Buys the News, by Udo Ulfkotte. (he was likely assassinated by the cia a few months after his book was published - death by venom induced heart attack from the cia developed heart attack gun.)
The Great Failure: A Bartender, A Monk, and My Unlikely Path to Truth by Natalie Goldberg . (I've read two of her previous books, and really excellent and interesting. you may find her 'how to write' book inspirational. Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within.)
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by david graeber. (his book debt: the first 5000 years is a critically important read to begin dismantling the official stories of the winning colonists. it moves outside of both the official winners and most of the official critiques of the winners with a completely different look at the dissemination of society as a debt-slavery driven activity.)
16 Maps of Hell*: The Unraveling of Hollywood Superculture by Jasun Horsley (the previous two books i've read by him are great. the first dismantles much of the 'official' history of society by showing its connection to fabian ideals of expanding the occult and the use of sexual abuse to manufacture consensus. it begins with his own likely experience of having been sexually abused as a young boy within the sphere of that being an acceptable activity. the Vice of Kings: How Socialism, Occultism, and the Sexual Revolution Engineered a Culture of Abuse; and his experience with a cult and leaving it. really excellent, Dark Oasis. he has just published Big Mother: The Technological Body of Evil that looks fascinating.)
well, that's enough from my most recent top 10 books.
400 books on your TBR- RELATABLE. These all seem really interesting, I’ll add them to mine! Thank for sharing📚
lol! yes. you're welcome.
i had a library of about 1200 books, mostly read, before i experienced the yogic request to commit to aperigraha, the releasing of those things in mind and body that no longer serve the highest spiritual path for me. now i have about 15 or so books and my book reading consumption is way way down. less than 10 last year and likely about the same this year. and i'm learning to read spanish, which is slowing even that down.
all the best with what is, with peace, respect, love and gratitude.
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Hi lisa 👋🏿