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A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
A Little Life follows four college classmates—broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition—as they move to New …
Making knots into rainbows.
Ideas: alternative education, neurodiversity, non-violence, cultural studies, collaborative parenting, HAES, anti-racism, permaculture. Interests: memoir, BIPOC fiction, Palestine, California, Ireland, DCP stories, nature writing, creative geography, cookbooks, graphic novels, picture books, poetry, guidebooks. About: White cis woman. Unschooling parent. PhD in English/Feminist Theory, specializing in 19th-20th century California domestic fiction. Volunteer support group moderator. Healing CPTSD. Bagel maker and haphazard gardener.
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A Little Life follows four college classmates—broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition—as they move to New …
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"We get remade as we remake the world. When we build together, relationship is created. Our fantasies of perfection or utopia are replaced with something I find more relieving and real, that we are alive and connected, that there is more to learn, that we change until our final moment, that we are both powerless at times and powerful."
— What It Takes to Heal by Prentis Hemphill (Page 114)
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I really wanted to like this and I do like the topic and the author's voice. Intuition is a thing that operates in many people's lives unspoken because it's put in so much doubt. And the core question of the book is so useful: is it intuition or anxiety?
The main problem is the format. By trying to be mainstream and fill more than half the book with scientific interviews, Greenwood sidelines her own most interesting insights and experiences with psychics. She even says so in the end, that she's swamped her own voice checking it against others. I wish the book was more focused on stories about intuition and the role it plays in people's lives, with a lot of the science and caveats as footnotes instead of 2/3 of the book.
Still, by reading this i did get help with the core question--is it intuition or anxiety?--and I've …
I really wanted to like this and I do like the topic and the author's voice. Intuition is a thing that operates in many people's lives unspoken because it's put in so much doubt. And the core question of the book is so useful: is it intuition or anxiety?
The main problem is the format. By trying to be mainstream and fill more than half the book with scientific interviews, Greenwood sidelines her own most interesting insights and experiences with psychics. She even says so in the end, that she's swamped her own voice checking it against others. I wish the book was more focused on stories about intuition and the role it plays in people's lives, with a lot of the science and caveats as footnotes instead of 2/3 of the book.
Still, by reading this i did get help with the core question--is it intuition or anxiety?--and I've found the tips useful in everyday life.