ankhorite posted:
Via Smart Bitches, Trashy Books:
Compile a short list of books specifically meant to help somebody understand you. These are not (necessarily) non-fiction books that catalogue your particular disorders or quirks, but books that especially resonate with you, that express a facet of you in book form.
The Chalice and the Blade by Rianne Eisler - as clear an explanation as I have found of certain male dominance mythology
Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Mists of Avalon. An enjoyable Arthur - fits well with the above, but includes far too much very silly romance
Rudyard Kipling - from childhood, Just So Stories and, whenever I needed to cry, Baa Baa Black Sheep (or some similar title - I forgot) oh, yes, and Kim. Often.
Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice, and anything else. I tend to judge too soon, and need the reminder. I re-read her, with pleasure
Alan Watts - just about anything. Yes, it dates me, but what a pleasure to read
C. M Kornbluth - The Little Black Bag - another short story with a well expressed theme I found it once in a book with The Light of Other Days, Flowers for Algernon, and some other favorites. It was a wonderful book, so I immediately gave it away.
Robert O Becker - The Body Electric - really jump started me
Roberta DeRopp Miller - Psychic Massage - electrifying to me, ho-hum to others
Robert S DeRopp - The Master Game - If you remember this one, you are pretty old. Yes, that is his daughter above him. I think I read my copy to death, all through college.
Kenneth Cohen - The Way of Qigong
Mantak Chia - Awaken Healing Energy Through the Tao - my first qigong book
Carolyn Myss - The Creation of Health (perhaps) the first book of hers that I read was great, then I thought they got a little silly.
This is harder than just a list of books I like or read. And shorter. I will remember more of them later.