Hi there, Mouse, and Everyone --

I'd really like to know more about the books you are reading, such as the titles and a sentence or two about what you like about them.

I am reading Jung's Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious. I am so ready for this. I was reading it in the dental chair yesterday. After all the emotional pain of the past week, the discomfort of the procedure was the proverbial "straw," and the tears that I have been unable to cry came silently gushing out of my eyes. Something I had been reading about the depths of the soul just coalesced in that instant and freed my emotions. Poor dental student. He thought he had badly hurt me.

Before this book, I read Clarissa Pinola Estes Women Who Run with the Books. This, too, is about archetypes and consciousness. I want very much to be in touch with my inner wild woman. I listened to some tapes by Caroline Myss about archetypes while commuting. I guess I am on an archetypes kick right now.

I also am listening to tapes in the car from Dale Carnegie's 1930s classic How to win friends and influence people. I do so want to become a person who knows how to get along with other people and who is liked.

This is a really good thread, Mouse. I can't wait to read more about what other people are reading.

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