Litsy

I Ching | Anonymous Anonymous

I can‘t seem to ‘‘like‘ or comment on anyone‘s posts, or even when I select a book add my own pic. I have logged all the way out on my iPad and back in again, but that hasn‘t helped. Hope someone can assist. #litsy

Librarybelle There are others who had the same issue. The best thing to do is email litsy@librarything.com to report the issue, and they can hopefully help get the app up and running again! It hasn‘t happened to me yet, but it seems when an iOS update runs, the app is not cooperating with it. 2mo

Missusb Thank you 2mo

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Blueberry

The Tao of Pooh | Benjamin Hoff, Ernest Howard Shepard

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I appreciated this book even though I didn't agree with everything.

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Blueberry

The Tao of Pooh | Benjamin Hoff, Ernest Howard Shepard

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Blueberry

The Tao of Pooh | Benjamin Hoff, Ernest Howard Shepard

My nighttime read. Very relaxing. 😄

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Robotswithpersonality

The Te of Piglet | Benjamin Hoff

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Nineties attitudes are alive and well and appropriating my childhood! I would not recommend this to anyone, for any reason. If you were looking for a quick, coherent guide into the tenets of Taoism, this ain't it. If you were looking for a pop psychology/self help type book cogently examining the philosophical or spiritual traits of dear Piglet, this ain't it. 1/?

Robotswithpersonality 2/? The author has opinions about everything that's wrong with society today, but they're presented as (uncited) facts and generalizations. If this was a choice to bulk up the book by matching Taoist thinking to all the ways it can fix what's wrong in the world, it's a clumsy effort. Likewise what is objectively an important environmental message gets buried under a lot of other tidbits and is left feeling out of place with the tone of the book. 9mo

Robotswithpersonality 3/? Considering the amount that other people are quoted, the author may have been better off producing a book of quotations.
Don't get me started on the steaming pile that is the Eeyore Effect chapter. Definitely some toxic positivity added to the mix. 9mo

Robotswithpersonality 4/4 I could expound further on all the ways I found this book patronizing or offensive but I really don't want to spend any more time thinking about it.
I'll have to track down some of the actual Winnie the Pooh books to give my brain a good rinse. 9mo

dabbe #fanofthepan! Better books ahead! 🤩🤩🤩 9mo

Robotswithpersonality @dabbe Always. 😉 9mo

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Robotswithpersonality

The Te of Piglet | Benjamin Hoff

O-KAY! Officially hate-reading this book. 😑

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Robotswithpersonality

The Te of Piglet | Benjamin Hoff

First section I actually said out loud "oh, I'm not gonna like this..." Second section: "I was right!". YIKES.
Yes, it was published in the 90s. No, I can't find evidence of a revised edition that would correct some of the more egregious choices encountered so far. ?

TheBookHippie It‘s all YIKES so is the Tao of Pooh 😵‍💫 @GingerAntics remember this awful experience ?! 9mo

Robotswithpersonality @TheBookHippie Alas, my fondness for Piglet has led me astray. 🤦🏼‍♂️ 9mo

TheBookHippie @Robotswithpersonality Happened to us as well!!! 🤷🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️ 9mo

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Robotswithpersonality @TheBookHippie Ah, the salve of commiseration, I appreciate it. 😅 9mo

GingerAntics @TheBookHippie boy howdy! As soon as I saw the book title I was like “eek, we stopped before we got to that one!” 8mo

GingerAntics @Robotswithpersonality and here we thought Tao of Pooh was going to be so cute. How wrong we were! @TheBookHippie it seems we were right to pass on Piglet. Poor Piglet! The bad man did both you and Pooh SO wrong! 8mo

Robotswithpersonality @GingerAntics Justice for the denizens of The Hundred Acre Wood! 😤 8mo

GingerAntics @Robotswithpersonality JUSTICE!!! ✊🏻✊🏻✊🏻 8mo

Robotswithpersonality @GingerAntics 😂 8mo

GingerAntics @Robotswithpersonality Hoff just rubbed be all kinds of the wrong way! I started reading actual taoists views of the books and WOW not fans. Don‘t go read Hoff‘s website. That thing is even worse. This is the Hoffism of Pooh and Piglet. There is no dao or te involved here. Just, yuck. 8mo

Robotswithpersonality @GingerAntics Yeah, I don't think I'll be reading anything authored by Hoff, ever again! 8mo

GingerAntics @Robotswithpersonality welcome to our little group! 8mo

Robotswithpersonality @GingerAntics Thanks! 😅 8mo

GingerAntics @Robotswithpersonality we don‘t have T-shirts or jackets… we thought it would be hateful. But we do commiserate the drama from reading Hoff‘s work/neurosis (edited) 8mo

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Robotswithpersonality

The Te of Piglet | Benjamin Hoff

Riiight, 'cause no one in the West has ever practiced arranged marriage (pretty common all over depending on the historical period, as far as I know), polygamy (isn't that a Mormon thing? I prefer polyamory) or body modification in adherence to beauty standards (also still a thing). 🙄 How about we skip the borderline racist trash-talking of Confucianists and get back to the intro to Taoism, yes? 🙎🏼‍♂️

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Robotswithpersonality

The Te of Piglet | Benjamin Hoff