Tani Rae Standridge

Best path to Buddhist principles

Revisado: 01-27-24

I’ve read them 3 times and am still getting more out of them with each read.

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I listen to this book three times

Revisado: 06-18-19

I didn't get bored once. The writing, the performance, the story are perfection. the understanding she manages to convey of the abused is enlightening. her transformation is fascinating. the story is heartbreaking and exhilarating and full of hope all at once. brilliant storytelling and prose. the personification of the mountain is enchanting.

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if you think you might drink too much....you do.

Revisado: 05-31-19

Compelling story. compelling narrator. Honest and frank telling of the desire and horror of drinking. This can scare you sober even if you aren't an alcoholic. if you are, it can give you hope. so few alcoholics make it to sober. Here is a path to follow.

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Truth is stranger than fiction

Revisado: 11-08-18

Absolutely riveting book. It could be a testimony to the force of character and people's unbelievable willingness to follow someone who sounds like they know what they're talking about. But the author stuck to the story using Obviously well researched detail. You are left to draw your own conclusions and ask how was this possible.

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Painful

Revisado: 07-08-18

A quarter of the way through I was irritated by clumsy tricks used to build syspense. Like using a movie line to make us think someone was looming over her and saying it to her then revealing it was the movie. Halfway thru i wished someone would just kill the heroine and put us all out of her misery. Three quarters thru I was ready to just kill myself to get it over with. Couldn't just stop reading as it was assigned in Book club. In summary painful and as my friend said... "Way too many words!"

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this was fantastic now for the rest of the story

Revisado: 05-17-18

this was such a great read. the story of his life was unbelievable. I couldn't put the book down. I had to find out what happened next because it didn't seem like he could possibly survive. But here he is on USA TV. I sure would love to hear how he got there from a childhood in Africa. open my eyes to how other people live a maneuver through the juxtaposition of a strict Christian upbringing and a life of getting by with petty theft.

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similar to journey of souls.

Revisado: 05-07-18

this book is interesting. it's an easy read. it's very short and reflects information from similar books where therapist have done past life regressions. definitely makes you feel better about dying and untimely deaths if others.

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finally what to eat... or not

Revisado: 03-29-18

I've been asking the question what the heck should we eat because there's so much disagreement among experts. I didn't expect the answer to be not at all. But he makes a good case for it and I'm going to try it

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it was wonderfully written but hard to read

Revisado: 01-22-18

it was an excellent book and it was well written. but I'm in a period of my life where I am increasingly disgusted about the vile behaviors of some mankind. it was very difficult to read about the abuse of the school girl and the soldier. it's bad enough that it's even possible much less to have it reimagined and have to read about it. I wish those images were not in my mind. and I wish people that can be guilty of such abuse were washed from the world. or perhaps I'm just ready to die (to be washed from the world myself) so that I don't have to deal with the knowledge of its evil anymore. there was plenty of that sentiment in this book: two people fixated on suicide. the only light in the book is the hundred and four year old who clearly chose life but one cloistered from the world as a monk. lots of material for Thought here.

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if only we could get everyone to read this book

Revisado: 08-31-17

well done Al Franken well done. fascinating travails of politics shared with humor and Hope.

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