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French and English books, a few in German.
Many fields, including economics, philosophy and psychology, but lately more into Buddhism of the Zen persuasion.
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Review of "Le Japon en un coup d'oeil : guide pour voyageurs curieux !" on 'Goodreads'
5 stars
Alexia reviewed The chasm of fire by Irina Tweedie
Review of 'The chasm of fire' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
This book gives interesting insights into the relation guru / devotee. It is easy to see how this can quickly turn bad for those less discerning than Irina Tweedie.
While she always interpret the frequent abuse she got from her guru in a positive way, she also understood how this could be seen from the outside. This makes it all the more courageous for her to write this book, knowing how likely it was to be misinterpreted from her point of view.
I did not feel bad for her, because as an intelligent and educated woman, she knew well what she was going into when starting her training, and accepted it as part of her path. She apparently got what she wanted from her teacher, but this is certainly not a path for the meek :)
Alexia rated The Years of Rice and Salt: 4 stars
The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson
The Years of Rice and Salt is an alternate history novel by American science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson, published …
Alexia rated My journey to Lhasa: 4 stars
Alexia rated Magic and mystery in Tibet.: 4 stars
Alexia rated The golden calf: 4 stars
Alexia rated A field guide to getting lost: 4 stars
A field guide to getting lost by Rebecca Solnit
Written as a series of autobiographical essays, A Field Guide to Getting Lost draws on emblematic moments and relationships in …
Silence by Shusaku Endo
Silence (沈黙, Chinmoku) is a 1966 novel of theological and historical fiction by Japanese author Shūsaku Endō, published in English …
Alexia rated American Gods (en español): American Gods (Brainstorming): 4 stars
American Gods (en español): American Gods (Brainstorming) by Neil Gaiman
Released from prison, Shadow finds his world turned upside down. His wife has been killed; a mysterious stranger offers him …
Alexia reviewed The Rings of Saturn by Winfried Georg Sebald
The Rings of Saturn (German: Die Ringe des Saturn: Eine englische Wallfahrt - An English …
Review of 'The rings of Saturn' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
Rather meandering, but really interesting. Great in order to better understand the English melancholy and their experience of economic decline.
Alexia rated The Wilder life: 3 stars
The Wilder life by Wendy McClure
In this funny and thoughtful guide to a romanticized version of the American expansion west, children's book editor and memoirist …
Alexia rated Little House in the Big Woods: 4 stars
Laura Ingalls Wilder: Little House in the Big Woods (2007, HarperTrophy)
Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder
The first in a series of truly charming tales of life on the early American frontier, Little House in the …
Alexia rated Effondrement: 4 stars
Effondrement by Jared Diamond
"In his Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond examined how and why Western civilizations developed the technologies …
Alexia rated Eat, pray, love: 3 stars
Eat, pray, love by Elizabeth Gilbert
Like many others, around the time Elizabeth Gilbert turned 30, she went through an early-onslaught midlife crisis. Although she had …