Feeling Human: A Creative Insight to the Human Condition

by Susi Bocks, Terry Susi (Illustrations)

Feeling Human explores our humanity. It's a rich experience of what emotions look like, what they can mean to us in the sensations we experience and how to learn to revel in them thoroughly, or how to protect ourselves from our struggles with them.

124 pages, Paperback

Published December 30, 2017

About the author

Susi Bocks - writer/author/poet, has self-published two books - Feeling Human and Every Day I Pause. You can find her work at IWriteHer.com or follow her on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/MyHumanityIn..., where she invites you to read her thoughts and get to know her. Bocks' work has been published in the anthology SMITTEN: This Is What Love Looks Like: Poetry by Women for Women and in Scarlet Leaf Review, VitaBrevis, Spillwords, Literary Yard, as well as other literary magazines.

Reviews

[Candice Daquin · Rating 5 out of 5]

With artwork by Terry Susi and text from Susi Bocks this is not a novel nor is it a poem yet it reads like a friend who has walked into your living room as you sat, with many questions in your mind and sat down next to you and taken your hands into their lap and said; "Let's talk." This is how Feeling Human reads, it's a friend, not a self-help book nor even a psychology book although it could stand in as either, for its myriad insight into the human condition, but it's much, much more.

Having got to know some of Susi Bocks work on WordPress and been impressed with the honesty and integrity of her thinking I sought this book out, with absolutely no idea of what to expect. I bought the Kindle version which is nicely done, I am a huge fan of the artwork especially, it reminds me of those classic books in the Virago era of publishing and really compliments the subject matter. The title gave me an idea of what Susi was going to be looking at but I didn't know how deeply she would go or how full her range of awareness about our humanity and how we live our lives, went.

Suffice to say, I was extremely delighted to read this book and read it in one sitting which I don't usually do with these kinds of books (but then again I have never read a book like this before so so would I know!?). That is the joy of something new. This is not a book to be read once either, I expect even today I will be skimming backward to find something I wanted to share with a friend.

That's the wonderful thing about something unique and necessary, you do want to share it. I hope many people read this book and get out of it the rich insights and awareness Susi clearly brought with her hard work putting this together. It would make an ideal present for someone, as it really is like inviting a guest into your house and sitting down for a chat.

Susi Bocks is a talented writer and beyond that, a truly enlightened and likable human being. If anyone knows what it feels like to be human and could show us how its done, I'd say Susi should.