What did you read this year?
David鈥檚
average rating for
2024
4.4
4.4
This book is wonderful. It follows 6 characters Neville, Bernard, Louis, Susan, Jinny, & Rhoda as they awake as children by a seaside garden and then throughout their lives. It fluidly switches between their perspectives in the form of a continuous stream of inner dialogue. The inner lives of the characters are expressed to the reader in the form of their most private thoughts, perceptions, and emotions - leaving the reader to piece together the
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Dr. Gabor Mat茅 is one of my personal heroes. I believe the world would be a better place is everyone read this book. "The Myth of Normal" refers to the many realities and stresses of modern life that are accepted as normal - but in the scope of our cultural and evolutionary history are anything but. Chronic disease/pain, mental illness, addiction, trauma, egotism, and inauthenticity are all completely normal in our society. They are not flukes or
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