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Bernie’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Bernie’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Bernie Gourley
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Poems of the Introverted Yogi
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| Willsky-Ciollo argues in this book that Thoreau built a uniquely American theology with nature at its core, a theology that didn't just draw on Greco-Roman philosophy and Abrahamic religion (as other schools of thought have) but also on Indian ideas ...more | |
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| I enjoyed this approach to biography. Instead of telling Hemingway's life story chronologically or even via some other form of overarching arc, Meyers gives us forty-three chapters that each shine a light on a different facet of Hemingway. In many ca ...more | |
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| In this book, a Cornell University philosopher considers questions at the intersection of morality and humor, particularly with respect to digs, burns, and other forms of wisecracking humor. Shoemaker's view is that generally these forms of humor are ...more | |
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| As it happens, I was just in New Orleans during Christmas and stumbled onto this book, which is well regarded regionally but pretty much unheard of beyond. It is essentially the poem "A Visit from Saint Nicholas" (a.k.a. "Twas the Night Before Christ ...more | |
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| This short story / novella is hilarious. It's the tale of a happily asocial protagonist, Lucas, who wants nothing more than to live a solitary apartment-dwelling existence, but who is pulled ever deeper into social interaction through an absurd serie ...more | |
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| One common philosophical question regarding yoga is to what degree it is, in itself, religious. This has been argued by various sects from within Yoga, with some seeing Yoga without belief as oxymoronic and others arguing that the metaphysics of Yoga ...more | |
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| This is one of Twain's lesser-known books, but it's not for lack of Twain's signature humor and cleverness. Like "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" it shines a light (often satirically) on what it means to be American via a fish-out-of-wat ...more | |
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“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
― As You Like It
― As You Like It
“This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.”
― Hamlet
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.”
― Hamlet
“Shapeshifting requires the ability to transcend your attachments, in particular your ego attachments to identity and who you are. If you can get over your attachment to labeling yourself and your cherishing of your identity, you can be virtually anybody. You can slip in and out of different shells, even different animal forms or deity forms.”
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“Choices create our map as we travel toward the new reality we are creating ~”
― Old Maggie's Spirit Whispers
― Old Maggie's Spirit Whispers
“Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you.
You must travel it by yourself.
It is not far. It is within reach.
Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know.
Perhaps it is everywhere - on water and land.”
― Leaves of Grass
You must travel it by yourself.
It is not far. It is within reach.
Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know.
Perhaps it is everywhere - on water and land.”
― Leaves of Grass
Yoga Folks
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— last activity Dec 27, 2025 11:55AM
This is a group of people who practice yoga of any sort. Here we'll share books both directly related to yoga and also more general reads that help us ...more
iWrite
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— last activity Nov 06, 2023 07:42AM
This is a group for YOU, your writing, your opinions, your imagination. It is for anyone who writes, likes to write, or wants to write. Or just likes ...more
Martial Arts
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— last activity Sep 22, 2025 02:37PM
This is the group for everybody who have interests in martial arts books.
Bodyworkers Reading Group
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— last activity Dec 31, 2012 09:14PM
Recommend and Discuss books relevent to Bodywork. Is anyone interested? Topics could be techniques, A&P, mind-body, reference books, etc. ...more
