Books.

I'm reading a book by Doris Lessing at the moment. Also like Hermann Hess and Neitzche. Anyone have any other fav authors they could recommend? Not into fantasy or children type fantasy books. Much prefer, "reality in your face" type of books LOL

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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I am currently reading "Understanding the Borderline Mother" by Chrstine Ann Lawson.

I enjoy reading Pema Chodron. "When Things Fall Apart" and "The Wisdom of No Escape", etc.

ECHOES

Wants2fly, Er The current book I'm reading is Doris Lessing, "Prisons we choose to live in"...talks about war and how we create our own battles. A qoute from inside the front cover, "The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour upon it the more it will contract"

Hi Echoes and Mouse -- Anything more you want to say about these books. I'm avidly watching for your comments.

Why are you reading these books right now? Are they touching on things that you feel you need to know about, clarifying inner or outer issues? They don't necessarily sound like typical fun so-called "beach reading."

im into the beat generation mostly...

authors such as:
ginsberg
burroughs
corso
kerouac
bukowski
cassady
orlovsky
orwell

then there are books:
prozac nation
sarah - jt leroy
.........................................
just a taste

have fun readin is a great safe way to lose one self
let imagination consume you

hi mouse, not sure if the books im about to recomend are what your looking for , as they are fairly old and hard to get, and a bit full on in your face.

"richard allen" is the author .............. the books are ......
skinhead
skinhead escapes
swede head
boot boys
boot girls

hi wants2

"Understanding the Borderline Mother" is of personal interest to me. it caught my eye when i was shopping for a new Pema Chodron book actually. I found 3 Pema Chodron books and couldn't decide... so I picked all 3 up and browsed while deciding which one to buy and looking for something to help me be more articulate in therapy, particularly about my mother.. and Borderline caught my eye. I opened it to the preface wihich said "The first thing we must understand in our life is our mother" and "Understanding our mother is the first step to understanding ourselves". I randomly opened it and there was a description of the "Queen mother" (others are "Waif", "Hermit" and "Witch") and that is exactly how we used to describe our mother, so I felt like I'd found a key... HAD to get it! Of course I am there too so it is enlightening but painful because I see my grandmother, my mother, me, and my son.

The Pema Chodron books are actually good beach books because they are simple and calming and humorous. She is a Buddhist nun, American born, who teaches and writes about things like fear and kindness; always thought-provoking and enlightening. I am not a Buddhist, but I like to read her writing.

For the beach.. I'd go with Robert B Parker, Janet Evanovich, John Grisham, Debbie MacComber, Diane Mott Davidson, Sue Henry... except when I go to the beach I like to walk

Mouse, you might like The Thrall's Tale by Judith Lindbergh. It's very "stark" and realistic and full of old powers versus new (it's an historically accurate novel about the Vikings and the founding and subsequent loss of Greenland at the same time as the waning of the Vikings/Odin to Christianity). Just when you think the "heroine" is going to finally win through, all is lost but not without the "good fight" :-) It reminds me a little bit of Hess.

For something a little lighter, I enjoyed Last Voyage of the Valentina by Santa Montefiore. "Sensual, sensitive, and complex. . .a passionate page-turning life journey and a dark mystery that sweeps from war-torn Italy to aristocratic 1960s London." It has inappropriate stepmothers and noncommunicative fathers, etc. :-)