What is one book that positively shaped who you are as a person and how did it influence you?
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What is one book that positively shaped who you are as a person and how did it influence you? At what point in your life did you read it?
Fiction, non-fiction, graphic novel, audiobook: however you define "book" for yourself is fine with me.
@ShaulaEvans @bookstodon I’ve had a few… The Prophet, as a precocious 16 year old: I realised that other religious folks believed stuff as deeply as I did, so how did I know what was true? Silent Spring which was my beginning of understanding quite how fucked we are by the corporate world. Maybe the Hobbit when I was 10 and I had an epiphany about how literature could seriously hook me (again with Day of the Triffids). Been a reader since. So many books have shaped me
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What is one book that positively shaped who you are as a person and how did it influence you? At what point in your life did you read it?
Fiction, non-fiction, graphic novel, audiobook: however you define "book" for yourself is fine with me.
@ShaulaEvans Simone de Beauvoir - All Men are Mortal. Completely changed my outlook on life and death. I read it at 17. @bookstodon
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What is one book that positively shaped who you are as a person and how did it influence you? At what point in your life did you read it?
Fiction, non-fiction, graphic novel, audiobook: however you define "book" for yourself is fine with me.
@ShaulaEvans @bookstodon
The Hobbit set a path for fantasy literature when I was a kid, but most profound change happened after reading When God Was a Woman by Merlin Stone. It was a starting point for pure spiritual rebirth and joy.
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What is one book that positively shaped who you are as a person and how did it influence you? At what point in your life did you read it?
Fiction, non-fiction, graphic novel, audiobook: however you define "book" for yourself is fine with me.
@ShaulaEvans @bookstodon I think the book that shaped me the most was Treading Lightly, KE Sveiby, T. Skuthorpe. I was a corporate Knowledge Manager at the time and read this book from a renowned KM professor: it was supposed to be about storytelling, a rather hot topic in KM at the time. The other author, the storyteller, is an aboriginal elder, and that's what changed me: his point of view on knowledge and human interaction with nature is what turned my life around #books
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What is one book that positively shaped who you are as a person and how did it influence you? At what point in your life did you read it?
Fiction, non-fiction, graphic novel, audiobook: however you define "book" for yourself is fine with me.
the Discworld series, of which Small Gods is the first one to have made my brain go "oh!"
Simon Winchester's Krakatoa and Outposts which made me realize that non-fiction could be an entertaining read.
Isabel Wilkerson's Caste because it gave me a different way of looking at how people interact with each other.
And Ursula Markham's How to Deal with Difficult People; it is a weird choice for a 13yo and deals with office life... but it helped me deal with my family a lot. -
@ShaulaEvans @bookstodon spell of the Sensuous by David Abrams. Most of the book is about the origination of language and how our environments shape our sounds. It helped me open to the possibilities found in relating to my environment, to keep me open to hearing new forms of language, to keep me listening for song lines from the Earth.
@MamaLake @ShaulaEvans @bookstodon amazing!
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@satsuma @ShaulaEvans @bookstodon @alicemcalicepants
Gödel, Escher, Bach "switched my mind on" when i was 15 years old; i did not understand all in the book, but my mind was altered, and in a positive way. since then i check and double-check everything i read or see (or think). -
What is one book that positively shaped who you are as a person and how did it influence you? At what point in your life did you read it?
Fiction, non-fiction, graphic novel, audiobook: however you define "book" for yourself is fine with me.
@bookstodon @ShaulaEvans The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People - I read the book the first time maybe 8 years ago. Since then, I return to read it again every other year.
It came at a rather bleak time in my life and started me on a path to reevaluate my values and act more towards how I want to be. I treasure this book because it finally made me realize that how I was and how I am are not how I will be or must be. -
@bookstodon @ShaulaEvans The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People - I read the book the first time maybe 8 years ago. Since then, I return to read it again every other year.
It came at a rather bleak time in my life and started me on a path to reevaluate my values and act more towards how I want to be. I treasure this book because it finally made me realize that how I was and how I am are not how I will be or must be.@bookstodon @ShaulaEvans Another great book for me was "Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging" (read maybe 5 years ago the first time) - I felt like it put into words what I was feeling missing in my environment at that time. It gave me a way to say / describe what I am looking for.
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What is one book that positively shaped who you are as a person and how did it influence you? At what point in your life did you read it?
Fiction, non-fiction, graphic novel, audiobook: however you define "book" for yourself is fine with me.
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. Read that in my early twenties and it helped consolidate what a load of old bullshit the right wing of politics are pumping out. Such a blatantly awful book. I couldn't even finish it.
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What is one book that positively shaped who you are as a person and how did it influence you? At what point in your life did you read it?
Fiction, non-fiction, graphic novel, audiobook: however you define "book" for yourself is fine with me.
"Cosmos" by Carl Sagan, back in grammar school. It motivated me to study physics, and even though that's not the career I ended in, it nevertheless set me on my path.
