Silentknight
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Watership Down by Richard Adams and every once and awhile I read a poem from Alfred Lord Tennyson.
What book are you currently reading?
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zaproffo
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I started reading that right before Demons, but I couldn't get far because I felt like every time I opened it I was opening up the world of danger for the rabbits. If I don't read it, nothing bad will happen to them for me!
Yes We Can
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Rikers High by Paul Volponi and Blue Rage Black Redemption by stanley Tookie Williams.
krs2snow
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Just finished "Peaking Out. How My Mind Broke Free from the Delusions in Psychiatry" by Al Siebert, Ph.D as told to Sam Kimball, Ph.D. Al was diagnosed as a schizophrenic in 1965 and voluntarily checked into a mental hospital. A few months later, he checked out -against medical advice and led a productive life. The book is his perspecitve of his "illness". Interesting b-cuz Al Siebert was highly educated in the area of psychology. He passed away in 2009 but managed to leave his mark on the world.
How resilient are you to lifes adversities? Take Al's quiz to find out.
Resiliency Quiz: "How Resilient Are You?" from the Resiliency Center
How resilient are you to lifes adversities? Take Al's quiz to find out.
Resiliency Quiz: "How Resilient Are You?" from the Resiliency Center
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Deus_Ex_Lemur
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The Hobbit, after that, The Divine Comedy.
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Angel by L.A.Weatherly, it's pretty good.
ps. Saskia, lovin' the pic!
thanks, it looks a bit like an anxious girl, so this is a good av for this site
and i love the colours
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Aussie_Lad
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Currently reading "The Brain That Changes Iteslef" by Norman Doidge MD. It is a fascinating read which talks about neuroplasticity being used as therapy for many types of mental related illness.
I'm stuck on my current book, so I'm going to give The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (gesundheit!) a try. I enjoyed One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, but this book is much, much longer.
scoobycrawler
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The BOok of Five Rings by Musashi Miyamoto, William Scott Wilson - Kodansha
Luke1993
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I'm reading a book called The Room (not anything to do with the film)
Basically it's told through the perspective of a five year old boy called Jack. Because of this it's quite difficult to read and hard to follow but it's good in a way because it's used to slowly reveal the plot.
The book is set in a place Jack calls Room. Jack has lived with his mother (called Ma in the book) in Room for his whole life and is happy. He's told by Ma that only the things inside Room are real and everything else outside isn't. Jack's "friends" are objects in Room and he names them all with capital letters (eg Spoon, Bed, Wardrobe) and because it's told from his perspective they are kind of their own characters.
Every night a man who is "half real" (as he exists outside and in Room) enters Room through a metal door who Jack calls Old Nick. Ma tells Jack to stay inside Wardrobe so Jack never meets Old Nick properly at first, but he overhears short conversations followed by numerous creaking noises.
Now below I'm kinda giving away what happens so *SPOILERS!*
So as I'm reading this I'm thinking "what the hell is this book supposed to be about!?" but as the story progresses through conversations Jack overhears with Old Nick and Ma you realise what's going on. Ma was a teenage girl who was kidnapped by Old Nick years ago and imprisoned in a soundproof room. Old Nick has been raping Ma ever since and Jack is a result of that (also why Ma tells Jack to stay in the wardrobe every night so he doesn't see it happening). Ma eventually tells Jack that she lied about the outside world to protect him. She then says that they need to escape.
This book was written after the Josef Fritzl case so you can see this book was clearly influenced by it. There's some other big things that happen but I don't want to spoil everything. I haven't quite finished it yet but it's definitely a very unique book.
Basically it's told through the perspective of a five year old boy called Jack. Because of this it's quite difficult to read and hard to follow but it's good in a way because it's used to slowly reveal the plot.
The book is set in a place Jack calls Room. Jack has lived with his mother (called Ma in the book) in Room for his whole life and is happy. He's told by Ma that only the things inside Room are real and everything else outside isn't. Jack's "friends" are objects in Room and he names them all with capital letters (eg Spoon, Bed, Wardrobe) and because it's told from his perspective they are kind of their own characters.
Every night a man who is "half real" (as he exists outside and in Room) enters Room through a metal door who Jack calls Old Nick. Ma tells Jack to stay inside Wardrobe so Jack never meets Old Nick properly at first, but he overhears short conversations followed by numerous creaking noises.
Now below I'm kinda giving away what happens so *SPOILERS!*
So as I'm reading this I'm thinking "what the hell is this book supposed to be about!?" but as the story progresses through conversations Jack overhears with Old Nick and Ma you realise what's going on. Ma was a teenage girl who was kidnapped by Old Nick years ago and imprisoned in a soundproof room. Old Nick has been raping Ma ever since and Jack is a result of that (also why Ma tells Jack to stay in the wardrobe every night so he doesn't see it happening). Ma eventually tells Jack that she lied about the outside world to protect him. She then says that they need to escape.
This book was written after the Josef Fritzl case so you can see this book was clearly influenced by it. There's some other big things that happen but I don't want to spoil everything. I haven't quite finished it yet but it's definitely a very unique book.
