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Hooked_on_books
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Mehso-so

I loved Pandora‘s Jar, so I was really excited for this one but I struggled with it a bit. I don‘t know if it was the book itself or me/the timing (this past week 😵‍💫). I‘ll definitely still be looking for her books in the future.

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dabbe
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#SundayFunday
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“Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.“ ~Joseph Campbell

Leftcoastzen Great pick! 2w
Bookwomble Love this book! ❤️ 2w
dabbe @Leftcoastzen 🤎🍁🧡 2w
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dabbe @Bookwomble It changed the way I thought about everything, especially religion. 🤎🍁🧡 2w
Bookwomble @dabbe Have you read his Masks of God series? I've read two of them, but haven't got around to the other two. The tagged is another, shorter, work of his I like. 2w
BookmarkTavern This one‘s been on my TBR for a while. Looks like I need to bump it up! Thanks for posting! 2w
dabbe @Bookwomble No, I haven't. I watched THE POWER OF MYTH series with JC and Bill Moyers (and read the book), but I'll add these to the TBR. I've also read Christopher Vogler's THE WRITER'S JOURNEY: MYTHIC STRUCTURE FOR WRITERS and THE SEVEN BASIC PLOTS by Christopher Booker. The monomyth was the basis for everything I taught in freshmen honors English. 2w
dabbe @BookmarkTavern 🧡🍁🤎 2w
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AnishaInkspill
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#Two4Tuesday, thanks @TheSpineView

1/ both - I can't choose, I 😍 them both
2/ dusty, unexpected, informative
extras (couldn't resist 😃) amazingly this is older than The Iliad and has somehow surived

TheSpineView 🧡🌅 Thanks for playing 2w
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LiseWorks
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November 3rd #DaysDevotedTo Sandwich 🥪 😋 There is nothing like a good sandwich @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Awesome 😋 3w
Eggs Thank you to JM 🥪 3w
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leslovestoread
Persephone | Virginia Lee, Sally Pomme Clayton
Pickpick

One of my favorite classic stories. This book did a great job portraying.

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Gleefulreader
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Another from the Massey Lecture series. Steiner‘s premise is that western civilization continues to look for certainties - in Marxism, in Freud, in astrology and the anthropology of Levi-Strauss - to fill the gap left behind by the decline of the Christian religion. He further posits that the search for ultimate scientific truth (for ex. that one day the earth will cease to exist) is something we cannot grasp which is why we turn elsewhere. Con‘t

Gleefulreader This is a good companion to The Prisons We Choose to Live Inside, and is still relevant today. Important note: it was written in 1974 and therefore there is some language in reference to hippies and their appropriation of Eastern culture that is outdated. 1mo
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Gleefulreader
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“The cults of unreason, the organized hysterias, the obscurantism which have become so important a feature of Western sensibility and behaviour during these last decades, are comical and often trivial to a degree; but they represent a failure of maturity, a self-demeaning, which are, in essence, tragic.”

As relevant today as it was in 1974.

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mfarragher
D'Aulaires Book of Greek Myths | Ingri D'Aulaire, Edgar Parin D'Aulaire

“The gods and goddesses were very much like us, with all our faults and failings.”

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mfarragher
D'Aulaires Book of Greek Myths | Ingri D'Aulaire, Edgar Parin D'Aulaire

This can be used in the classroom to introduce students to key myths and characters from Greek mythology through engaging read-aloud sessions. Teachers can also incorporate art projects or creative writing assignments based on the stories to encourage deeper understanding and personal connection to the material.