Nonfiction audio is my main thing. Autobiographies, parenting, science, social issues, and some business or anything educational.
I consider nonfiction to be a healthier and more useful view of the world than the news.
I have a few Mastodon accounts, like @travisfw@fosstodon.org
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I come back to this one every time I feel like a pushover and resent spending my limited energy on things other people just want to offload. Does it help? Well, Knight's attitude and wit help me feel better, so that's worth something.
From the National Book Award–winning author Evan Osnos comes a timely and provocative collection of …
Definitely some interesting reporting, but not good for my psychology.
The Anthropocene is the current geologic age, in which humans have profoundly reshaped the planet …
Green's "review" of air conditioning is profound.
On a warm March night in 2083, Judy Wallach-Stevens wakes to a warning of unknown pollutants in the Chesapeake Bay. …
Rock star, crowdfunding pioneer, and TED speaker Amanda Palmer knows all about asking. Performing as …
My partner tells me asking for help is a weakness of mine. I definitely have a perception that the way "the world" or "people" or "society" works requires me to be as self-reliant as possible. We'll see if and how that part of me can shift.
There is a growing movement of people with a different vision for their local communities. They know that real satisfaction …
From the National Book Award–winning author Evan Osnos comes a timely and provocative collection of essays exploring American oligarchy and …
An engaging exploration of what it means to be asexual in a world that’s obsessed …
Not sure I'll finish it. I've learned a few things and remained confused but I think that's congruent with the message. I'm going to hazard a synthesis: Mandatory sexuality in culture is a fixation on an extreme, and because many people so poorly fit the implications and social dynamics of mandatory sexuality, asexuality provides a perspective that sex and sexuality may be unimportant for a healthy individual.
Good message but this sheer willpower method doesn't really fit. Don't get me wrong, I have plenty of willpower. I think accepting and engaging in reciprocal loving relationships would work better for me. Easier said than done, of course. My issue is how pervasive social injuries were hardwired into my body during "critical periods" and I see that when I look in the mirror. IE if you have PTSD, this book is naïve. But I would still recommend it with appropriate expectations.
@mouse@bookwyrm.social I watched that movie a few times. I wonder if I could find an audio version of this new translation.
There are many routes to mental well-being. In this groundbreaking book, neuroscientist Camilla Nord offers …
Excellent points made on the importance of pleasure, the potential of placebo, and a strong finish, critiquing the diagnostic model of the DSM.
Good, right, and important, but somehow I did not manage to grow much between the start of Together and its finish.
The Anthropocene is the current geologic age, in which humans have profoundly reshaped the planet …
I started listening to Green read his book to me a year or two ago, and dropped it. But feeling drawn to more poetic subject matter now, feeling my usual focus glaze over, this delivers in ironic commentary, as if a star rating could ever provide insight into the quality of an experience beyond just the quality, a quality of the experience of a book that I have been missing. I just very much enjoyed the chapter on our capacity for wonder.
Wonder, itself, given a star rating. Does it matter how many? Should it ever matter to you, how many stars for anything? Only because the metric is forced down our throats by e-commerce platforms, must it matter. But no wonder why the quality of daily life has been seeming to drop in dimensionality. Not that Green has yet made this point.
