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Anonymous wrote:I am going to add a book that doesn't necessarily fit in with the heavy recommendations here - What Alice forgot by Liane Moriarty. It is a fluff fiction book but the I found the premise fascinating and still think about it years later. A fall leaves a woman with amnesia for the past 10 years of her life. Instead of thinking about being separated from her husband after an alleged affair, she is transported back to her blissful, newlywed days and can't understand why her husband is acting so strange and estranged. For anyone who has been married for a long time, it really makes you think about how your relationship changes over time. The disparity from the newlywed days to 10 years later because of normal life events is mind-blowing. Although silly fiction, this book made me think about how things would be if I was in this situation and it made me appreciate my husband so much more.

I am OP and I think amnesia stories can be fascinating. I've not read this one, but Nicole Krauss' Man Walks Into a Room (2002) is amazing and starts on the same premise.

Anonymous wrote:I am going to add a book that doesn't necessarily fit in with the heavy recommendations here - What Alice forgot by Liane Moriarty. It is a fluff fiction book but the I found the premise fascinating and still think about it years later. A fall leaves a woman with amnesia for the past 10 years of her life. Instead of thinking about being separated from her husband after an alleged affair, she is transported back to her blissful, newlywed days and can't understand why her husband is acting so strange and estranged. For anyone who has been married for a long time, it really makes you think about how your relationship changes over time. The disparity from the newlywed days to 10 years later because of normal life events is mind-blowing. Although silly fiction, this book made me think about how things would be if I was in this situation and it made me appreciate my husband so much more.

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Anonymous wrote:John Robbins - Diet for a New America

Twenty two years ago this completely changed the way I ate and I never went back.

did you become vegan?

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Anonymous wrote:The Girl Who Sang to the Buffalo: a Child, an Elder and the Light From an Ancient Sky - something like The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down but more expansive and mind blowing information about the tribe on whose land I live. Native cultures are such a different speed from the way we live that it awes and depresses me that they are right here but are largely invisible to most White Americans.

Nature’s Best Hope by Doug Tallamy - this has changed the way I view my yard, what I do in it, what I plan to do in it and how I view habitat loss and climate change.

Shakespeare by Another Name - I never knew about the Shakespearean authorship controversy. Like fireworks in my mind to find out the probable author.

Does anyone else suffer from the condition of reading books, loving them, learning from them and then promptly forgetting the title? I have to start writing things down.

Thank you for this detailed answer. The first book you mention, The Girl who Sang to the Buffalo I'm going to get.

You’re welcome. Be prepared, it’s wander. I enjoyed the wander, but it really takes its time. And evidently parts of it are fictionalized? I’m not sure how much an author needs to change/invent for it to be considered fiction, but it’s in the non-fiction area.

Anonymous wrote:“The Blessing a B- “ Jewish-centric but incredibly useful for parents of tweens and teens. Changed my parenting for the better.

Anonymous wrote:The Girl Who Sang to the Buffalo: a Child, an Elder and the Light From an Ancient Sky - something like The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down but more expansive and mind blowing information about the tribe on whose land I live. Native cultures are such a different speed from the way we live that it awes and depresses me that they are right here but are largely invisible to most White Americans.

Nature’s Best Hope by Doug Tallamy - this has changed the way I view my yard, what I do in it, what I plan to do in it and how I view habitat loss and climate change.

Shakespeare by Another Name - I never knew about the Shakespearean authorship controversy. Like fireworks in my mind to find out the probable author.

Does anyone else suffer from the condition of reading books, loving them, learning from them and then promptly forgetting the title? I have to start writing things down.