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Anonymous wrote:Nurture Shock. It put into words all my gut instincts and explained why I'd felt these ways but didn't know why.

This is so kind- the co-author, Ashley Merryman is a friend of mine. I told her about your comment here, and she says it really meant a lot of her. She answers emails directly from her website, www.ashleymerryman.com if you ever have questions about the book!

Third poster. Me too! Friend of Ashley, please tell her we hope she writes more books.

Well that's awesome. I am a different poster, and after I finished Nuture Shock, I went looking for and read everything Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman wrote and was disappointed there wasn't even more!

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Anonymous wrote:I read White Fragility on a saturday morning and stared into space thinking the entire weekend. Life changing.

HAHAAHAHAHAAHA

Anonymous wrote:I read White Fragility on a saturday morning and stared into space thinking the entire weekend. Life changing.

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Anonymous wrote:Nurture Shock. It put into words all my gut instincts and explained why I'd felt these ways but didn't know why.

This is so kind- the co-author, Ashley Merryman is a friend of mine. I told her about your comment here, and she says it really meant a lot of her. She answers emails directly from her website, www.ashleymerryman.com if you ever have questions about the book!

Anonymous wrote:Nurture Shock. It put into words all my gut instincts and explained why I'd felt these ways but didn't know why.

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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.

Thank you! I’m adding this to my list. Have you read her other books?

Anonymous wrote:I just finished "Things Fall Apart" by China Achebe, and came away thinking that it will really affect the way I think about, and relate to, other people.
The story unfolds in pre-colonial Nigeria (late 1800s), and it's renowned for being a novel that brought this culture to a global audience. But what I took away was somewhat different. The tribe in the story has certain beliefs, customs, superstitions that may seem quite different from our own, but they make sense to the members of the tribe, and often serve a wider purpose. When the story involved some interaction with white culture, it gave me another chance for to think about the belief systems of the white culture in the story, and compare/contrast.
So it made me really think about the belief systems of our current society and how they interact with each other..and one main theme is that things aren't all 'black and white', so we must try to understand the other perspectives.
I haven't been this impacted by a book for a long time.

Anonymous wrote:I just finished "Things Fall Apart" by China Achebe, and came away thinking that it will really affect the way I think about, and relate to, other people.
The story unfolds in pre-colonial Nigeria (late 1800s), and it's renowned for being a novel that brought this culture to a global audience. But what I took away was somewhat different. The tribe in the story has certain beliefs, customs, superstitions that may seem quite different from our own, but they make sense to the members of the tribe, and often serve a wider purpose. When the story involved some interaction with white culture, it gave me another chance for to think about the belief systems of the white culture in the story, and compare/contrast.
So it made me really think about the belief systems of our current society and how they interact with each other..and one main theme is that things aren't all 'black and white', so we must try to understand the other perspectives.
I haven't been this impacted by a book for a long time.

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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.

Thank you! I’m adding this to my list. Have you read her other books?

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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.

Anonymous wrote:Erik Bern, Games People Play and then the one about life scenarios