COUSINS!

I don't actually have a lot to say about the book, but I just finished it and am happy to chat in comments.

So, I finished reading Cat Valente's The Habitation of the Blessed (A Dirge for Prester John, Volume 1).

Discuss in comments if you wish.

So, (I'm pretty sure) I don't know anyone with Borderline Personality Disorder, but I found Stop Walking on Eggshells: taking your life back when someone you care about has borderline personality disorder (Paul T. Mason, MS & Randi Kreger; Second Edition) helpful anyway.  A lot of the stuff about the fact that you can't "fix" the other person (and ( Read more... )

I'm not a big fan of this book (the author purposely uses masculine language for God and generally feels more theologically conservative than I am; and it didn't teach me much I didn't already know about dealing with mental illness) but I do really appreciate the bits about stigma (because my mentally ill best friend and I have had conversations ( Read more... )

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I added this to my GoodReads after reading Lee Wind's review. Then mjules read it, and had comments which reminded me of Ari's complaints about Luna. So I was pleasantly surprised by the protagonist's reactions overall. (Also, I really liked that he almost always referred to Sage as "she," even when he was first feeling all, "Ugh, Sage is ( Read more... )

[GoodReadsOn my GoodReads because mosca got it at ComicCon 2008. I'd completely forgotten about it until I was trawling my GoodReads in my trans YA lit binge. (Though having read it, I took off the "trans" tag, because the protagonist is not actually trans. It does deal with queer sexuality some, but not because of cycling nature of the narrator ( Read more... )

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I reread this after having finally read Parrotfish. My mom got an ARC of this through work (and gave it to me, obv.), and I have barely any memories of that first reading experience ( Read more... )

[GoodReads♥ Yes, this book is About Being Trans, and it is Educating you the reader, but it's so good. (Caveat: The exoticization of one of the secondary characters made me uncomfortable.) Yes, things go much more easily happily than is likely realistic, but people deserve to see lives like theirs reflected in positive ways. The dead/evil ( Read more... )

When Jesus was asked, "What is the greatest commandment?" Jesus responded: "The greatest commandment is to love the Lord your God with all your heart, mind, strength, and soul -- and the second is like it: to love your neighbor as yourself; on this hang all the law and the prophets" (paraphrased from memory).

The novel The Shack never cites this ( Read more... )

Where to Draw the Line: How to Set Healthy Boundaries Every Day by Anne KatherineThis wasn't particularly an epiphany book, but it did find it useful for articulating and reminding me of things I already kind of knew -- though by about halfway through I was less into it ( Read more... )