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A Book is a Truly Magical Experience
It is a gift to find the time or take the time to indulge in the age old tradition of stories. Our oral history is crucial to success of the human existence. The connection we are awarded when we read or listen to the world through a lens not our own, is brilliant.
I live to read. I live for the written word and I have created a bold list of books that offer essential life lessons from fiction to biographical fodder peppered with non fiction, this list fills every orifice of my soul.
Politics
What is Justice?
To understand a broken system, it is imperative to rip at the roots of how humans interpret the value of human life.
I read this gem in high school and have kept my copy and flung through the pages on a many occasion since.
The Greatest
Honesty in the oddest place
I found this book beneath a dusty stack of stories in the backroom of a basement mall secondhand bookshop.
The honesty through recorded interviews and his frank interpretation of life while dodging the draft is beautifully written and leaves a warm lasting impression.
Just So Stories
How the rhino got his skin
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I've always enjoyed the origin story. Knowing where things begin offers sense to why things have evolved to a true shitpile.
*use of outdated, racist and offensive language.
The Alchemist
What's in a dream
I remember completing this fable and realizing what love truly means. When we love a dream more than we love ourselves, success is inevitable.
Beautiful Losers
Convoluted daydream
Filled with confusing narratives, text twists and constantly changing structures with post modern interpretations of a love triangle.
Frankenstien
Who is the monster?
Let kindness always be blind.
The Lottery
Choice reduced to stone
This story showed me as a very young person that human nature is manipulated by the masses.
Up From Slavery
Insights for the necessity of change
We are failing as a society because this book is still relevant today.
Metamorphosis
Capitalism is but a bug on the wall
What we will become when we give it all to the daily grind.
Beautiful and Damned
Wealth is wasted
When we constantly search externally for what can only be solved internally, we will slowly deteriorate.
Marat/Sad
Sadism is for all to find in light or dark
I never thought a book about a sexual sadist would offer such profound insight for the soul.
Outlaw Culture
Feminists need to keep questioning.
Another bargain basement find without any bargaining for a place in my permanent collection. We can all stand to find the feminist within.
Weetzie Bat Series
Counter Culture is feminism
This series was my first exposure to punk and counter culture. An essential element when discovering the value of differences in humanity.
Worlds Religions
Choose to understand others
This was a text book for me in high school but it was also my first introduction to the historical roots of religions. This book continues to offer me tolerance.
Catcher in the Rye
A red carnation was not enough
Maybe if Holden could have flown with the ducks, his soul would have found calm.
Infidel
We still have so far to go
I came across this book atop a dusty table with her piercing gaze compelling me to take her home and I am forever changed.
Phantom Tollbooth
Pay your fare and venture to a land lacking rhyme and reason
A pithy read filled with day-dreamt dalliances and adventures dripping in meaningful lessons and hopes for a fantabulous tomorrow!
The Three Mothers
Three Mothers History Has Disregarded
This book is not for the faint of heart. History is written by the winners and this book dives into the forgotten truths of three Beautiful Black Mothers. This book taught me about the value of representation and the importance of Capitalizing Black.
The Science of Happy
It's easier to fear happiness than find it
This book came to me when I needed it most and maybe you need that too.
Peter Pan
Take a trip into childhood
They say youth is wasted on the young but this plucky tale complete with fairy orgies will convince you that it's never too late to believe.
On Guerrilla Warfare
A battlefield requires mental weaponry
Understanding the only form of combat to ever defeat a super power offers great opportunity for internal reflection and alternative paths for success.