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Eric Ireland

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Sonia Orchard: Groomed (Paperback, Affirm Press)

​Sonia Orchard was in her forties when she told a therapist about the boyfriend she …

Suspenseful personal story of historical abuse

Orchard snuck into a nightclub in Melbourne in 1985 when she was 15, and met a 26 year old man. She went to a therapist 30+ years later, who encouraged her to report it. Great page turner. I had to keep reading to find out whether the bastard got it in the end. You can probably guess.

Bjö Natthiko Lindeblad: I May Be Wrong (2023, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc)

'This book really, really will stay with me forever. It's not only laced with the …

honest and inspiring

I like the way he approached life, with equanimity, trying not to get caught up in judgements about good and bad and right and wrong like the title, "I may be wrong". Someone asked Ajahn Chah what the biggest barrier for westerners was and he answered "opinions".

When Lindeblad found out he was dying of ALS, he just kept on going, teaching meditation as long as he could. He didn't actually write this book though - it was ghost written based on his talks about life at meditation retreats and on Swedish radio.