Just about to start reading this book if it would help in my confusion with finding a balance with my relationship with God.
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Nice light but engaging read.
I’m loving it, will read this author again.
This is the kind of read I’m enjoying currently; redemptive, warm, real and human.
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The great house of God by max lucado
This is somewhat hard work but it’s really expanded my mind.
This one is more for pleasure. Cannot stop seeing some of the things I have learned since reading about them!
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I just finished Shred Sisters, it was quite enjoyable. Well written story of family dynamics and mental health issues.
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You might like David Abram’s The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World. It sounds a bit like the Gooley book.
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Will add to my reading list - thanks 
I’m still getting through Jane Eyre; it’s taking me a while as I took a few weeks break from it. I loved how it started, then got a little disinterested, but finally picked it back up this week and im enjoying it again.
I have to admit - and I wonder if this is the experience of others, too? - that I find commitment to reading difficult nowadays 
it’s weird because, even though I’m an avid reader and I LOVE reading, it seems I really struggle to pick up my book or actually use my time to read. I’m so distracted (addicted) to my phone/technology now, and it’s really frustrating, because, I know, deep down, I’d rather be reading! But I don’t seem to, I seem to always be looking at screens, mainly my phone 
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I’m like that too. I’m not sure exactly what I can say for sure or not about it - I definitely spend time on my phone now that in my childhood I spent reading - but my phone time is mostly constructive connection time, here on Talking Sober, or taking care of admin stuff or emails or texts (I deleted my social apps except Talking Sober and LinkedIn, and TS is the only one I visit almost daily).
When I was a kid I was a voracious reader of fantasy novels; I had some favourite characters and series and would follow them closely as new books were published. When I was about 19-20 years old that interest flagged though. It didn’t really have anything to do with phones; that was the time I started socializing more actively outside my home.
(Edit to add: I did continue reading fiction, including Jane Eyre, which I enjoyed (it has a thrilling, sinister, but also sincere current running through it), but most of my fiction reading was for courses I took, both during my time in my undergrad, and afterward, when I would take online classes for personal interest. For me, that’s where my fiction reading wove into the thread of my life.)
I am now a voracious “reader” of audiobook courses (I listen to courses from The Great Courses series, on Audible), and I listen to essays and non fiction books that I find compelling (I just finished “We Should All Be Feminists”, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie). I do my listening when I’m driving or cooking, which combined are usually an hour or two of my day.
I worried about this off and on for a while but I don’t worry about it any more. I’m a keen observer and a vivid thinker (both in terms of my imagination and in terms of creative intellectual connections), and I’m actively engaged in my present-day life, with my professional and spiritual and social journeys, all actively under way at the same time.
Instead of reading novels telling the stories of other people’s lives, I’m writing the novel of my life. I still do reading - almost entirely audiobooks and almost entirely non-fiction - but for me, the novel I’m reading now is the one I’m writing.
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In saying this I do not mean to diminish the discipline of a rich appreciation of literature (including novels!). I’m just describing how I understand myself intellectually today, in comparison with myself when I was younger 
I know there’s a thread for favourite books of all time, I can’t really add to that as I get through around 4 to 5 (sometimes more) books a week, which I suppose is one benefit if insomnia!
What I’d like to know is what you’re reading right now and what’s next in line for you ?
I’ll start, I’m currently reading books by American author Christopher Moore. His books are noir humor and have a dash of included Americana that I sometimes have to look up (thank Odin for Kindle).
I started off with: Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal. Then his Vampire trilogy set in SF and now I’m reading the second book of the Pine Cove trilogy: The Lusty Lizard of Melancholy Cove, which I’ll finish tonight, then onto the last book, The Stupidest Angel, then on to his next trilogy. All highly recommended.
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I just picked up philosopher Evan Thompson’s Why I am not a Buddhist and Élisabeth Roudinesco’s biography of psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, and I am expecting a biography of Terrence Malick in the mail soon.
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I have just finished reading Sinéad O’Connor’s biography Rememberings.
I am currently reading The Milkman by Anna Burns.
The next book I plan on reading is T.C Boyle -When The Killing’s Done..
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