A book that made a turning Point in your Life
Hard to pinpoint one as those read always give me 'something'...
Two that instantly come to mind are "Stumbling toward Enlightenment' by Geri Larkin and I'm really enjoying reading Patti Smith's 'M Train'...I do enjoy the way she writes...
Two that instantly come to mind are "Stumbling toward Enlightenment' by Geri Larkin and I'm really enjoying reading Patti Smith's 'M Train'...I do enjoy the way she writes...
"Ishmael" by Daniel Quinn. Found it on a blanket on the side of the road in Thailand, and the read the whole thing cover to cover on a Ko Samet beach. Just blew me away with the concept...the talking gorilla is just figurative for any observer on the human race. Struck a chord which still resonates 15 years later, the truth of which becomes clearer and clearer as we lurch towards over-population...
90 Minutes in Heaven by Don Piper and Cecil Murphey because this book just shows how bad some accidents can actually be and it shows how real our God up above actually is and it shows that people are not truly dead after they die and that they can come back to life. As for me, I lost my aunt Amanda Marie Watkins to a fatal car accident in 2012 and that changed my whole life forever because her and I were close as can be and I feel like something could've been done to save her but nothing was done at all. In the book 90 Minutes in Heaven, Don Piper explains how he and his car got ran over by a prison freight/ supply semi truck but due to how Don Piper and his car got ran over and smashed and crushed, Don died right away and went up to heaven and during his experience in heaven he was greeted at the gates of heaven by family and friends who had died and after entering he heard the most beautiful angelic music he had ever heard before. He, after a while woke up to see his wife standing outside the hospital and a lot of his friends too. He was then taken into the hospital and overheard how bad his injuries were and that his legs might have to be amputated but not at that particular hospital. so he was transferred to a different hospital and was able to keep his legs and eventually healed up good and is still alive today
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Shadows on the sea. I forget who the author is now, it was a pretty juvenile read.
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Cosmopolitan usually have great reads lol
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
“I felt very still and empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo.” This is the first Plath quote I read and the one I showed my parents to convince them to bring me to the doctor. I have bipolar disorder. I was 15, confused, and very depressed. Somehow, this book gave me comfort like a hug from an aunt telling me 'you're not alone' despite of its content. Some said it'll get me more depressed. But the emptiness and hopelessness are familiar, and that thing you want that's just out of reach...and the ending that could mean a lot of things. Every sentence is poetry. And, the best thing for me, when I contemplate about committing suicide, I remember this quote: "I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am." The heart is one stubborn thing. That was when I was introduced to Plath's poetry. I got the Harper Modern Classics 50th Anniversary Edition for my 18th birthday despite of it being hard to find in our country, and I plan to get "I am, I am, I am" tattooed on my wrists, color my hair red for Lady Lazarus.
"Out of the ash
I rise with my red hair
And I eat men like air."
Eh, I guess I'm one of the followers of "The Patron Saint of Sad Teenage Girls."
“I felt very still and empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo.” This is the first Plath quote I read and the one I showed my parents to convince them to bring me to the doctor. I have bipolar disorder. I was 15, confused, and very depressed. Somehow, this book gave me comfort like a hug from an aunt telling me 'you're not alone' despite of its content. Some said it'll get me more depressed. But the emptiness and hopelessness are familiar, and that thing you want that's just out of reach...and the ending that could mean a lot of things. Every sentence is poetry. And, the best thing for me, when I contemplate about committing suicide, I remember this quote: "I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am." The heart is one stubborn thing. That was when I was introduced to Plath's poetry. I got the Harper Modern Classics 50th Anniversary Edition for my 18th birthday despite of it being hard to find in our country, and I plan to get "I am, I am, I am" tattooed on my wrists, color my hair red for Lady Lazarus.
"Out of the ash
I rise with my red hair
And I eat men like air."
Eh, I guess I'm one of the followers of "The Patron Saint of Sad Teenage Girls."
