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mcctrish
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I‘m basically just listening to this and hiding from everything

Aims42 Good plan! 👍 2h
AnnCrystal ❄️🤩💝. 2h
bookandbedandtea At least you have a pretty view while you hide! 💜 17m
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Imagen_leigh
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Pickpick

I really enjoyed this book despite it being nonfiction. I found that many of the things Rubin said were things I agreed with. Creativity is inside of everyone and if you think differently I recommend this book! 😄

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SarahBookInterrupted
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mcctrish
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This is a long book and jam packed with information that I‘m really enjoying and now I‘m questioning everything I know. For instance witchcraft was started to steal men‘s‘ penises so obviously men had to hunt witches down. 🤣🤣 (or that was what men ‘thought‘ witches were up to) Started a new Lego set, a gift with purchase, of a small floral arrangement and tackled the ironing mountain

IndianBookworm Waiting for your review😊 23h
mcctrish @IndianBookworm I gave this to one of my brother in laws for Christmas - we saw him 2 weekends ago and he said he was 100 pages in which is almost 1/5 of the way so I think he‘s committed to it. My hold came in after we saw him, of course, I didn‘t ask him anything about it but now I have some context so I want to ask him all the things and look at the print version to go over some points 🤣 I may end up buying it for my husband 22h
AnnCrystal 🧩🌸🆒🤩👍🏼💝. 17h
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GingerAntics
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Tonight on The Americas, we got to see this octopus mate and her babies born. It wasn‘t long, but it was amazing! Highly recommend!!!
#TheAmericas #TomHanks #Philosophy #AdventuresInPhilosophy #DeadPhilosophersSociety
@TheBookHippie @ravenlee @JaclynW @RavenLovelyReads @AlaSkaat @Chrissyreadit @kspenmoll @bnp @CatLass007

TheBookHippie Oooooo!!! 2d
GingerAntics @TheBookHippie the whole series is totally worth a watch! It‘s SO good! The octopus was especially exciting, though. I‘ve been looking forward to it since the series started in the middle of reading Other Minds. 2d
vlwelser That series is amazing. 2d
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AnnCrystal 💕🐙💝. 1d
Chrissyreadit ❤️❤️❤️ 1d
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GingerAntics
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TheBookHippie ♥️ 2d
CatLass007 He is one of my all-time favorites! He and Captain Kangaroo (the real one, not the reboot). 2d
GingerAntics @CatLass007 such a treasure! I love him more and more as the book goes along. 2d
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Kiwidragonnerd
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Pickpick

🌕🌕🌕🌕🌗 Very insightful and has genuinely shifted my view on the world and human society especially. It really disappoints me to see how much our society has just continued to fall after this book was written, and I can only hope that things turn out like the hopeful side of this book. The only downside I had to it was the repetitive dialogue and often annoying teaching, though I suppose that's part of the character.

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mcctrish
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I finished my Love Lego and it‘s going on shelves with love/relationship books. I need to do a complete book shelves reorganization but that‘s going to be a week long project probably happening in the summer

Aims42 What a perfect spot!! Love it 😁😍 2d
mcctrish @Rissreadswithcats what to build next ? 2d
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AnnCrystal 👏🏼😍💝💝💝. 2d
mcctrish @Aims42 I want to reorganize all my shelves NOW. I need a distraction 🤣🤣 2d
Aims42 @mcctrish Oof. That is a very Sunday sounding thing 😂 Walk away! No good will come from starting that now 😆 (spoken from first hand experience) (edited) 2d
mcctrish @Aims42 I‘m home from work tomorrow - I need to avoid it then too 🤣🤣 2d
Aims42 @mcctrish I wish you all the luck with avoiding it then too! It‘s not easy for sure 😂 2d
dabbe 🤩🤩🤩 2d
TheBookHippie ♥️ 24h
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Robotswithpersonality
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Okay, how do I put this delicately? I would much rather have had a) the story of this man's life written by someone else and b) a pamphlet consolidating Charlie's direct wisdom and any reasonable distillation of his life experience as teachings, because I'm pretty sure that's all the space that's actually required. 1/?

Robotswithpersonality 2/? Not only did the author feel it necessary to put in a fair amount of his own filtering and filler with opinions and historical facts which at a stretch might be considered context for the life events of Charlie White, but he went into what I consider to be gratuitous detail regarding the death of Charlie's father and his first wife. Maybe it's worth flagging that the nature retreat he went on as a boy may have included the trauma of sexual 3d
Robotswithpersonality 3/? assault that Charlie didn't want to acknowledge, but I feel really weird about my perception that the author attempted to mortph that into a lesson of resilience. I'll be honest, Charlie's mom may have been a bit neglectful because as a single mother of that many kids she didn't have a choice, but I struggle to see any of the youthful experiences related as anything more than lucky escapes rather than adventures that teach bravery 3d
Robotswithpersonality 4/? in the context of a mother who granted her son the gift of early responsibility and independence.
Despite championing Stoicism, the author doesn't wander too far into the 'rugged individualism' that has toxified modern American society, but I fear that interpretation is up for grabs among a biased readership.
The premise of writing a book to aid your kids in navigating the future based on how a man in the past navigated big changes hasmerit
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Robotswithpersonality 5/? is even heartwarming, but the tone of the book is uneven, to say the least.
Among the many tales of being a doctor in the earlier years of the twentieth century, the intern stories are appalling, while the realities of medical breakthroughs quickly falling to the wayside, leading to an understanding of IID, Iterative Incremental Development as a way to approach change seems valuable. The part where Charlie seemed to council on the side of
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Robotswithpersonality 6/7 callousness when it came to ailing loved ones, including one of his wives dying of cancer, not so much.
I think if you're looking for general life wisdom, there are better sources. I think if you're looking for the story of a spectacular life lived across a recent swath of history, you should be prepared for a bunch of distressing moments, and to feel ambiguous about the subject at the end of it.
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Robotswithpersonality 7/7 ⚠️child SA, mental health concerns, details of medical procedures, loss of loved one by cancer 3d
GingerAntics Eh, this does not sound good! 3d
marleed Oof! My IRL KC-based bookclub read this last year. I was one of only two (other being the host who recommended it) that liked it at all. I found the KC history interesting. Also my maternal grandfather went to med school in Chicago during that time. Both he and my mother have long since passed and this has me curious about his medical training. I always thought it a big deal he was plucked from Montana mines for medical school - but maybe not🧐 2d
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Darklunarose
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Pickpick

I really enjoyed reading this book.while I don‘t think I could live a full zen life I know I incorporate a few ideas. My love of nature and need to be in natural areas for one.