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Pilgrimage of Desire: An Explorer's Journey Through the Labyrinths of Life
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Brick and Mortar
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2001
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I have thought about this book many times since I first read it 16 years ago. Watching us move further along the hellish trajectory it mapped, grateful that it was still possible to turn the feed off, escape it, survive without it. I was prompted to ...more |
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| I was fortunate to read this book while in Africa for the first time, on a trip to South Africa, Zambia, and Botswana, and it did what the best fiction does: provided a bridge from somewhere familiar to somewhere new; gave me poetry and history and p ...more | |
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Unshaming: A Memoir of Recovery, Relapse, and What Comes After
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“It seemed that my unhappy state was marked by three things: self-deception, self-abuse, and anhedonia. I told myself things that weren’t true, I neglected my needs or actively punished myself, and I took little delight from what the world offered.”
― Pilgrimage of Desire: An Explorer's Journey Through the Labyrinths of Life
― Pilgrimage of Desire: An Explorer's Journey Through the Labyrinths of Life
“Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.” — Lin Yutang”
― Pilgrimage of Desire: An Explorer's Journey Through the Labyrinths of Life
― Pilgrimage of Desire: An Explorer's Journey Through the Labyrinths of Life
“I’m still sleepy, a good frame of mind for writing — the inner critic snuggles deeper under the silk comforter and lapses back into unconsciousness while the dreamer and I begin work undisturbed. I”
― Pilgrimage of Desire: An Explorer's Journey Through the Labyrinths of Life
― Pilgrimage of Desire: An Explorer's Journey Through the Labyrinths of Life
Writers of Color Book Club
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Here we'll be reading books by Black, Indigenous, and other authors of color in an effort to diversify our reading habits. Welcome and enjoy! ...more
Almost Fearless: Monthly Travel Book Club
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A book club started by Christine Gilbert of http://almostfearless.com -- we read one travel or memoir title per month.
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Goodreads Librarians are volunteers who help ensure the accuracy of information about books and authors in the Goodreads' catalog. The Goodreads Libra ...more
2016 Authors of Color Challenge!
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The challenge: devote half of your 2016 reading to authors of color. I noticed in my own reading habits a paucity of books by people of color. I have ...more
Oh, did I forget to mention that 3 of the 4 books I've bought in Malaysia are YA? I must rectify that! ;-)