This inspiring book takes readers on an allegorical voyage aboard the Conscious Awareness, exploring emotional states of mind that either limit or unlock true happiness. Through meaningful insights about thoughts, beliefs, choice, and the ego, the book offers guidance for anyone seeking clarity, balance, and purpose.
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What are some books that have helped you with feelings of alienation or estrangement?
I'm looking for recommendations for books to return to when I feel lonely, intentionally misunderstood, gaslit and/or bullied. For those tough moments when I feel like there's no place for me on earth.
A few examples of books that mean a lot to me:
- Lonely Castle in The Mirror by Mizuki Tsujimura: made me feel less alone with my experiences of being bullied and being an outsider. There's hope for finding community elsewhere. Gave me the same feeling of coming home on a close-knit phpBB forum in the past.
- I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman: speaks to me in a sense that when life is difficult, resilience and curiosity will always get you through. Why not stick around to see what changes, to see what's out there, even if you will never be able to understand? Others don't need to understand you and they don't need to feel the same as you, for life to be worth living and for things to be meaningful to you as an individual.
- Vita Nostra by Marina & Sergey Dyachenko: made me believe that even with threatening people around you controlling your life, there are ways to push back, to change yourself, to resist and to focus on other things than only mourning the life you thought you would have. You can experience growth within yourself, not only forced destruction.
- Piranesi by Susanna Clarke: you can be lost, you can be chronically ill, you can be confused, you can be alone, but you can still live on. You can wonder about everything.
- Earthlings by Sayaka Murata: I don't think there's anything heartwarming in here, but I feel such a sense of comfort that there are characters out there completely disconnected from the world around them because society makes no sense and is cruel.
- Pew by Catherine Lacey: It's not you. It's them.
- Among Others by Jo Walton: has a good message that books will always be a companion.
Any books you'd recommend to me? Any books that have the same vibes as any of the above? Any books that have given you comfort over the years?
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Read WHAT STALKS THE DEEP by T. Kingfisher if you love a missing persons case, helping an old friend, the color mauve, SCIENCE!, abandoned mines, definitely not being claustrophobic, mysterious lights, boredom & terror, the whole & fragments, trauma narratives, skeletons, pronouns & dogs.
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Best 5 books I've read or re-read in 2025 ♥️
1. Zhuangzi - love the author of this work, lots of meaningful stories about life that were as true in China in 4th century BCE as today
2. End Times by Turchin - argues that over elite production causes societies to collapse
3. How to Hide An Empire - America the empire is not a Republic
4. Peloponnesian War - same thing happening today between NATO vs. Russia
5. Hamlet's Mill - the power of mythology in history
Christmas (miracle) review on Part One of my Fantasy/Attempted Comedy story The Last Philosopher 😊
P.S Links to places where I'm currently posting Part Two are on my profile, updated weekly.
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📖 Today’s non-fiction #BookRecommendation is about #ClimateAdaptation : I’ve been diving into Susannah Fisher’s latest book, "Sink or Swim: How the World Needs to Adapt to a Changing Climate."
Climate adaptation is set to be one of the defining topics of 2026 and beyond. This week, I’ve been diving into Susannah Fisher’s latest book, "Sink or Swim: How the World Needs to Adapt to a Changing Climate." Fisher, Principal Research Fellow at University College London, doesn’t shy away from assessing tough realities — from securing food justice to understanding the security dimension of water resilience. Adapting to climate change often involves hard choices on, say, relocating people from crumbling coastlines, or trying to shift diets to less carbon-intensive foods. Political leaders and voters alike hesitate to make these changes. Still, she still manages to strike a hopeful tone, pointing out that “the task ahead to adapt is huge, but there are multiple small changes, specific ideas and potential levers that can move us in the right direction”. 📚 What’s your latest discovery when it comes to climate & environment books ? #ClimateAdaptation #Transformation 🖇️ https://lnkd.in/emtSNQVc
Wow. I just inhaled "Blood over bright Haven" in two days. This is such a great book! Fiction, but it's about the big problems of the real world: colonialism, sexism, racism, capitalism, abuse of power... Big topics and only 460 pages, so it's very straight to the point. And it's a little gory. If you're fine with that like me, it's a 10/10 book! It's one of my favorites now.
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