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Wants to read Bringers of the Dawn: Teachings from the Pleiadians

Wants to read Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You: A Memoir

Wants to read I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream

Rated My Annihilation 6/10

Wants to read Butcher

Wants to read Clytemnestra

Wants to read How to Stay Alive in the Woods: A Complete Guide to Food, Shelter and Self-Preservation Anywhere

Rated Owning Your Own Shadow: A Jungian Approach to Transformative Self-Acceptance, Exploring the Unlit Part of the Ego and Finding Balance Through Spiritual Self-Discovery 8/10

Rated The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity 10/10

Finished reading Classic Goosebumps Collection: Books 1-4

Rated Hangman 6/10

the entire book is "telling" - there no "showing" and no dialogue whatsoever. <br/><br/>it's transcendent, almost meditative, but there wasn't much payoff in the end. I don't know what the "point" was - or if there was one to be made. props for the creative point of view, but around the halfway mark, I found myself just pushing through to be done.

Rated Achieve Financial Freedom – Big Time!: Wealth-Building Secrets from Everyday Millionaires 8/10

Rated Switch Bitch 6/10

Wants to read Does This Baby Make Me Look Straight?: Confessions of a Gay Dad

Wants to read Nausea

Wants to read Coromandel: A Personal History of South India

Rated Wardrobe Crisis: How We Went From Sunday Best to Fast Fashion 8/10

A book covering a lot of information about the history and the current state of the fashion industry. It will help you 'understand' fashion as we know it today better. The author does sometimes goes into detail a bit too much, in my opinion.

Rated The Buddha's Footprint: An Environmental History of Asia 6/10

In 'The Buddha's Footprint', Elverskog counters the common narrative of Buddhism being, in essence, a eco-friendly religion. He does so by providing a history of Buddhism and its spread throughout Asia. The book uses excerpts from Buddhist scripture to show that early Buddhists were not in the slightest concerned about the environment. All in all, an interesting read, which might alter your views of Buddhism quite a bit. Although the book isn't too long, the Elverskog's thesis could have easily been conveyed in a short essay. He repeatedly uses the same arguments to make his case. <br><br>The argument the author provides is compelling, but would have been stronger if he also provided some counter-arguments. For example, the author frequently states that Buddhists pushed the market economy and, the consequent, urbanization in Asia, which led to a disregard for the environment. However, I'm not entirely convinced whether it is Buddhism per se, or rather the cultural context of Buddhism, which set this reaction in motion. I would have liked Elverskog to make this distinction (if evidence exists) more clear. <br><br>The book starts with an experience the author had in Tibet, whereby he came across two Buddhist monks who were carrying rucksacks made of snow leopard skins. The author presents this as a pivotal moment, where his views of Buddhism radically change: Because how could two Buddhist monks, who ought to have deep respect for nature, use the skin of an endangered animal for something as trivial as a rucksack?<br><br> I assume this encounter took place somewhere in the late 20th century. In the rest of the book, however, the author barely makes any reference to environmentalism and Buddhism in modern times. The book only seems to be concerned with the history of Buddhism and how this relates to environmentalism. This seems like a missed opportunity.

Rated The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying 6/10

Rated The Shards 10/10

Wants to read Making Surveillance Public: Why You Should Be More Woke About AI and Algorithms

Wants to read 48 Clues into the Disappearance of My Sister

Rated The Art of Memoir 10/10

Rated I Don't Want to Talk About It: Overcoming the Secret Legacy of Male Depression 10/10

Rated Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass 10/10