What are you currently reading?
Book number two Linda Wormhoudt, this is a book in Dutch but Im sure it can be found in English, I went through a lot of searching and finally got this for my last birthday from my sister. Its a deeply spiritual book about Norse Finnish and Sam mystical and shamanic worlds, its really about roots, I already know this will be a book that I will forever visit as it is so direct rich and deep, I cried many tears of recognition and intense joy while reading the beginning. I keep re reading these texts so its a very personal book for me. Linda Wormhoudt was a very wise soul who lived in Koerdistan, The Netherlands and Scandinavia, she did a lot of research for over 30 years, her work and life was devoted to shamanism.
In many ways she feels like a kindred soul. I have been looking for her books a very very long time!!!
Book number 3 yet unread is Wise women, myths and stories for midlife and beyond by Sharon Blackie and Anghard Wynne
Yet unread since it only came out late September, both ladies are fabulous naturally gifted story tellers. Sharon with her amazing psychic psychologist soul and Anghard with her mystical toned voice. I adore these ladies and cant wait to see what they have in store for the reader in this new book or cooking pot!
I recently started reading A Fire in the Flesh by Jennifer L. Armentrout ,and so far it's really interesting. It's over 700 pages,so it should entertain me for a good while,I also love the cover design and design of each page of the chapters.
Black with skulls and red roses,definately my kinda aesthetic when it comes to literature,but the plot and story matters more than the cover of it. Still,really nice cover design.
Black with skulls and red roses,definately my kinda aesthetic when it comes to literature,but the plot and story matters more than the cover of it. Still,really nice cover design.
I'm reading the above☝️ and enjoying it muchly. Amongst other things, it contains 30 poems by Deep Underground's very own and wonderful Grace👒, a talented poet if ever I've read one. If anyone is looking to read some excellent poetry, with a wide range of subject matter, obtainable at a very reasonable price, click on the link below and buy a copy. You won't be disappointed. 👍
Book:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Vampire-Squid-Killed-Printed-Periapt/dp/1542995159?dplnkId=91d54591-d0ec-4c3f-9192-8b167810204d
Grace's👒 Deep Underground Page:
https://deepundergroundpoetry.com/poets/Grace/
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I am reading "Habits of Empire: A History of American Expansion" by Walter Nugent, a history book in my university courses. I'm not a big fan of this type of book, but I need it for my studies, so I'm reading it. Has anyone here read it? If so, what did you find most exciting or surprising? I'd like to hear your thoughts; they may interest me in reading more.
Collectively we are a mess. Personally I’m close to burn out yet doing things that I deeply care about. I’m curious about how I can balance my body with my creative fire. Is it possible? This week I’m sharing some older poems from chapbooks I hope to republish in the year to come. I am breathing in smoke from my favorite mountain forests burning. I feel these fires in my extended flesh, brain, self. My web of kin. We are fevered. Brittle. We are starbursts of photon combustion and fragmented carbon. Laced into lungs as smoke. I don’t have the means yet to make this a story.
https://sophiestrand.substack.com/.../back-when-smell-was...
Image from Miyazaki’s Princess Mononoke
