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**50TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION—WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY DAVID MITCHELL AND A NEW AFTERWORD BY CHARLIE JANE ANDERS
Ursula K. Le …
Throughout history and around the world today, forward-thinking communities have pioneered alternative ways of living together, sharing property and raising …
Today, buffeted by one food fad after another, America is suffering from what can only …
As someone who went down the rabbit hole of not eating processed foods or factory farmed meat for several years, I really thought I knew all there was to know about the way America produces its food. But wow was I wrong.
This book continually astounded me with the facts and figures of just how silly our food chain really is. Also I learned so much more about eating seasonally and locally than I was expecting. I could not stop sharing quotes with people as I was reading and I would consider this a must read for anyone who lives in a society that doesn’t live off the land.
Today, buffeted by one food fad after another, America is suffering from what can only be described as a national …
This book was very eye-opening for me to read at the suggestion of my counselor. It described things I had been feeling and struggling with so accurately that it was a very emotional and validating experience for me. This then made me advocate for myself in trying to get a diagnosis and treatment despite being brushed off by several providers.
To say my life has improved since managing my adhd would be a severe understatement. It is like night and day. A lot of the tips in this book do not really apply to me since I have the inattentive type, not the hyperactive type. But the few things that I have picked up from this book are habits that I still incorporate in my daily life even a year later.
Despite having several witchy friends, I have never pulled my birth chart or held astrology for anything but made up woo. But a very close friend (who does not own a single crystal and whose book recs I always trust) loaned me their personal copy and told me I had to read it.
This involved first going to the author's website and entering your exact date, time, and city of birth, which gives me the ick knowing how secure any data we put on the internet is (not). Which meant I had to text my mother and ask what time I was born. With my sensitive personal data entered, I was emailed my birth chart to print. Printout in hand, I sat down to analyze it with this book.
I quickly realized that the chart I printed out did not correspond to the explanations included in my email. The Sun …
Despite having several witchy friends, I have never pulled my birth chart or held astrology for anything but made up woo. But a very close friend (who does not own a single crystal and whose book recs I always trust) loaned me their personal copy and told me I had to read it.
This involved first going to the author's website and entering your exact date, time, and city of birth, which gives me the ick knowing how secure any data we put on the internet is (not). Which meant I had to text my mother and ask what time I was born. With my sensitive personal data entered, I was emailed my birth chart to print. Printout in hand, I sat down to analyze it with this book.
I quickly realized that the chart I printed out did not correspond to the explanations included in my email. The Sun was in the wrong sign in the picture but was described correctly in the chart underneath. So I had to text one of my astrology expert friends who directed me to yet another website to enter my information, which then printed an accurate and easier to read chart and corresponding info.
As a first timer analyzing a birth chart, I felt like I was back in my high school math classes, most of which I flunked out of. But once I got past all these considerable hurdles (I really do love the person who lent me this book), it became pretty enjoyable.
It was actually uncanny how accurate a lot of it was. And, as for anyone who sometimes struggles though life, it is very cathartic to read a self-help book that identifies a problem you have always had and validates your struggles. Most of the book does not pertain to your birth chart, so in each chapter, you only read the small section about the particular planet/house/sign permutations that apply to you and skip the rest.
By the end, Chani has guided you to create a map to self-fulfillment: What you need to achieve in life to be happy, what your strengths are, and what aspects of your self may hinder you in reaching that goal.
The rest is left up to you. I pondered on the prompts throughout the book and I do feel like I got something out of it. If anything else, I now know that I apparently have the planet Saturn to blame/thank for much of my life, both the good and the bad. I feel like Saturn might become my new mascot. We've been through some sh*t.
Do I believe in horoscopes now? No. But this was a fun way to spend a few hours self-reflecting on some affirmations. And I may finally prioritize getting over some of my hang-ups that I had not really thought about confronting just yet. Plus now I have a new Space Comrade 🪐
It’s thirty years from now. We’re making progress, mitigating climate change, slowly but surely. But what about all the angry …
Nothing is harder to do these days than nothing. But in a world where our …
Imagine Braiding Sweetgrass was written by an annoying Californian yuppie and that’s this book. I’m glad I read it. It has a lot of good ideas and it challenged me to think about how social media and my internet use affect my life, which is what made me pick up the book in the first place.
However, it would have been a lot more effective if she had trimmed a few hundred pages of fat and just gotten to the point. Overall, though, still a good read.
When the tech platforms promised a future of "connection," they were lying. They said their …
I consider myself pretty well versed in the shortcomings of capitalism, but this book still managed to shock me time and time again with tales of the brazen greed of tech companies over time. It was an easy read, which I appreciated, and I greatly enjoyed the conversational and sometimes colorful tone of writing.
Yet even though the author said multiple times that he would explain how we go about fixing the problems of Big Tech, he never really did. That is, unless I somehow figure out how to suddenly make Congress listen to me instead of a huge corporation, or learn how to reverse-engineer my own social media company. Nevertheless, it’s a great read, and one that more people probably should.
"In a little more than a decade, economist Michael A. Lebowitz has written several major …
This is the first time I have been exposed to a socialist who seems to have as much disdain for the socialism/communism of the 20th century as they do for capitalism. This book challenged my concepts of what socialism really is and has made me realize that I have a lot of internalized capitalist concepts that I need to consciously unlearn.
This book is a fantastic primer to thinking about a new socialism for this century. I wish it got into more specifics as to how to put the theory into practice, but then again this book is actually just a collection of essays and speeches made by the author throughout his career.
As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with …
This book has permanently changed the way I think about the world. It made me so overwhelmed with emotions that at times I had to set down my phone and cry for a few minutes. But it is beautiful. It is poignant and important and it has given me renewed hope for a world that is increasingly terrifying.
I’m usually alone in my head, and that’s where 90 plus percent of my problems …
This series gets more addicting with each installment. The first four books were almost too short, and reading this one felt like I was finally really getting to dig in to the world of Murderbot. Consider me thoroughly hooked!
