Trying to find a better way to track books I want to read than a random spreadsheet. I had used readinglog.info which was provided by my local public library until they shut down the program. Luckily, I regularly backed it up via their CSV export. I've used Library Thing for years, but adding books for "To Read" really screwed up a lot of the other features of the website, like recommendations, etc. I really love Free Software & the Fediverse particularly. My primary social media account is on Friendica @fu@libranet.de
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"AM I LOSING MY MIND?"
People with Borderline Personality Disorder experience such violent and …
other part a pain of loneliness can only be relieved by the rescue of fantasized lover, as expressed in the lyrics of countless love songs.
— I Hate You—Don't Leave Me by Jerold J. Kreisman, Hal Strauss (Page 41)
"AM I LOSING MY MIND?"
People with Borderline Personality Disorder experience such violent and …
for most of us, solitude is longed for, cherished, a rare opportunity to reflect on memories
— I Hate You—Don't Leave Me by Jerold J. Kreisman, Hal Strauss (Page 40)
Most people? That sounds like complete and utter craziness to me.
"AM I LOSING MY MIND?"
People with Borderline Personality Disorder experience such violent and …
DSM-III-R lists eight criteria for BPD, five of which must be present for diagnosis. At first glance, these criteria may seem unconnected or only peripherally related. When explored in-depth, however, the eight symptoms are seen to be intricately connected, interacting with each other so that one symptom sparks the rise of another like the pistons of a combustion engine. The eight criteria may be summarized as follows: (1) Unstable and intense interpersonal relationships. (2) Impulsiveness in potentially self-damaging behaviors, such as substance abuse, sex, shoplifting, reckless driving, bìnge eating. (3) Severe mood shifts. (4) Frequent and inappropriate displays of anger. (5) Recurrent suicidal threats or gestures, or self-mutilating behaviors. (6) Lack of clear sense of identity. (7) Chronic feelings of emptiness or boredom. (8) Frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment.
— I Hate You—Don't Leave Me by Jerold J. Kreisman, Hal Strauss (Page 7 - 8)
Hmm you need 5 of 8 to be BORDERLINE? What if I have all eight?
The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe - published in 1719 - was …
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From its first publication in 1877, Black Beauty has been one of the best-loved animal …
Most movies based on books are not as good as the book. This is why I usually recommend watching the movie first so that you can enjoy both of them. I have no idea how many times I have seen the 1978 animated film released by the Australian wing of Hanna-Barbara. It was a childhood favorite and I have grown to share it with my own kids, who were less than impressed. Perhaps it was just the shear number of times that ingrained its version such that listening to the original tale seemed lacking. I kept waiting for parts of the story that never actually came up, whether they were completely made up for the movie (if you can even call a 48 minutes VHS tape a movie) or were combinations of a number of the stories from the book into one separate story, to the point that I don't …
Most movies based on books are not as good as the book. This is why I usually recommend watching the movie first so that you can enjoy both of them. I have no idea how many times I have seen the 1978 animated film released by the Australian wing of Hanna-Barbara. It was a childhood favorite and I have grown to share it with my own kids, who were less than impressed. Perhaps it was just the shear number of times that ingrained its version such that listening to the original tale seemed lacking. I kept waiting for parts of the story that never actually came up, whether they were completely made up for the movie (if you can even call a 48 minutes VHS tape a movie) or were combinations of a number of the stories from the book into one separate story, to the point that I don't think I actually gave the proper chance to enjoy the expanded narrative this audio-book needed. Also what the book usually called the "check reign" the movie called the "bearing reign."
My own weird history aside the book is good. A 19th century story of "the autobiography of a horse" the story of one of England's finest ponies told from his colt-hood to the end of his life, nearly 15 years over the course of 5 audio discs. Each chapter was a more-or-less stand alone story, which would make it great for a few weeks of bed time stories, probably for kids age seven and up.
Black Beauty is famous for being a tale of animal welfare that inspired English kids to seek out better treatment of their parents' horses. It also was a story promoting teatoling and care of the working-class, particularly England's horse-drawn cab drivers.
All in all I recommend it, but maybe read the book first this time. 🤷♀️
French professor Pierre Aronnax and his servant join the Abraham Lincoln, an American frigate, on a mission to find and …
From its first publication in 1877, Black Beauty has been one of the best-loved animal stories ever written. The dramatic …
"AM I LOSING MY MIND?"
People with Borderline Personality Disorder experience such violent and …
Unable to tolerate paradox, borderlines are waking paradoxes, human Catch-22s
— I Hate You—Don't Leave Me by Jerold J. Kreisman, Hal Strauss (Page 6)
Uhm, why you in my head?
"AM I LOSING MY MIND?"
People with Borderline Personality Disorder experience such violent and frightening mood swingsthat they often …
"AM I LOSING MY MIND?"
People with Borderline Personality Disorder experience such violent and …
Well, I couldn't find my copy of The Ford-Wyoming Drive-In so let us pull this off the shelf and dig into what's wrong with me instead.
Well, I couldn't find my copy of The Ford-Wyoming Drive-In so let us pull this off the shelf and dig into what's wrong with me instead.
French professor Pierre Aronnax and his servant join the Abraham Lincoln, an American frigate, on a mission to find and …
Fate: It is an idea as old as life itself. Do our choices shape the future, or is it the …
Shortly after World War II, three Dearborn brothers bought a vacant parcel to build a …
The Ford-Wyoming Drive-In is one of my favorite places in the world, and this book up in my non-fiction books you already own queue, but for the life of me I can't find where I put it.
The Ford-Wyoming Drive-In is one of my favorite places in the world, and this book up in my non-fiction books you already own queue, but for the life of me I can't find where I put it.
I Feel like I've already listened to this audiobook, but I can find no record of it on Bookwyrm nor LibraryThing. Maybe I only listened to his first book Slobberknocker: My Life in Wrestling? I also can't currently find the CDs, so maybe I already donated it to the little library at the beach?
I Feel like I've already listened to this audiobook, but I can find no record of it on Bookwyrm nor LibraryThing. Maybe I only listened to his first book Slobberknocker: My Life in Wrestling? I also can't currently find the CDs, so maybe I already donated it to the little library at the beach?
Soapboxer, writer, poet, agitator, and publicist, the British-born Ashleigh was active in the IWW from …
I really liked The Rambling Kid even if it wasn't what I was expecting. When I heard "A novel about the IWW" I was hoping for a story where we won, where wobbles successfully seized the means of production whilst bringing about a new world inside the shell of the old, even if in only a small part of the world. Alas what I got was a story that very well could have been a true story. Ashleigh even made frequent references to the Wobblies sometimes being too high on expectations and theory perhaps too dogmatic, for what the working-class needed, all while being the best thing they had.
But the book wasn't all gloom and doom. We follow the life of Joe who goes from a boy in London, England, to a farmer in the Dakotas. Straight thru Ellis Island to the prairies of the Scandinavian immigrants. The …
I really liked The Rambling Kid even if it wasn't what I was expecting. When I heard "A novel about the IWW" I was hoping for a story where we won, where wobbles successfully seized the means of production whilst bringing about a new world inside the shell of the old, even if in only a small part of the world. Alas what I got was a story that very well could have been a true story. Ashleigh even made frequent references to the Wobblies sometimes being too high on expectations and theory perhaps too dogmatic, for what the working-class needed, all while being the best thing they had.
But the book wasn't all gloom and doom. We follow the life of Joe who goes from a boy in London, England, to a farmer in the Dakotas. Straight thru Ellis Island to the prairies of the Scandinavian immigrants. The farm goes bankrupt and off to the Twin Cities they go. Joe joins the Wobblies for a good time and a good job and then hops the trains like a hobo. He falls in love, possibly more than once. Charged with a crime he didn't commit and becomes a spokesman for the movement.
So all-in-all still good fun while also have quite a bit of true working-class grit. Recommended to any Fellow Worker, whether or not they've joined the One Big Union.
