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Women Medicine

Revisado: 01-13-25

To begin, I rarely write reviews. This is a wonderfully inspiring and yet heart wrenching and simultaneously heart healing book! If you're heart aches for itself, for this world, sees the universe as a whole and the energy of spirit that moves around inside it then you want to read this book. I find it hard to be a white woman filled with these spirit senses. I think pretty much all woman spirits (meaning regardless of what your body's sexual organ was born as) can feel this energy. As such, we feel the suffering. We receive suffering. We try to deal with how this suffering has come to us. We're constantly striving to heal this suffering both inside and outside of ourselves. This book showed me the universe offers the medicine for healing. I've often found it difficult to talk to mental health professionals because once you speak of things they cannot see (visions, ghosts, predictive dreams) they believe you have a condition, a psychosis of some sort. (Not that I was diagnosed with such but it's just the comments and looks you get if you try to share these emotions and thoughts with a world who finds it socially unacceptable.) So you stop talking from your heart and can't seem to find healing. The Native American women in the story talked it out with true belief and received universal and ancestral insight and healing. I kept hearing the words "Women Medicine" as I was sobbing through the Author's closing remarks. What better medicine than love from the generations of women that came before you! I think all us woman have that if we just find a way to hear it like Jessie did with her Council of Dolls. I am so grateful to Mona Susan Power for creating and sharing this story. I do not feel alone or crazy seeking, exploring, or just simply believing in my Woman Medicine.

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Excellent, Moving, Original!!

Revisado: 08-23-21

Don't get stuck and stop reading in the beginning as it may seem a little confusing. KEEP READING!! This is a novel not to be missed. Life itself is the substance behind the story and, for some, answers why they are here. it's very beautiful in the storytelling which sucks you in to the places and people!

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WTF, Sorry Oprah!!

Revisado: 06-25-21

I'm a huge fan of the "grotesque" which is a word Oprah used to describe this book, which is more than distorted or ugly or strange. I find it more forcefully gross so the author can just get some attention and sell a few books. It might help to know about Chinese) Taiwanese culture/myths/folklore etc. as I'm guessing that's what these bizarre images are talking about, but there's no explanation to the meanings. It certainly doesn't make me want to learn more about the culture with everything being pretty foul. The book is very disjointed and hard to wrap your head around.

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Unbelievably Beautiful

Revisado: 06-14-20

Prepared to be overwhelmed with emotions! These stories are so beautifully written and performed. It is a must listen. I suggest giving yourself enough time to listen to each story straight through to feel it's power, like there is in a piece of music!

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Mix of Poetry and Sci-Fi

Revisado: 05-18-20

Absolutely marvelous! I had already greatly enjoyed "The City and the City" and thought this book was even better. And my favorite narrator John Lee gives the characters such presence. What a great combo of sci-fi and dystopian, and steampunk, with grotesque curiosities! The characters have great development with Yagharek having a particularly beautifully flowing "diary" on the side, which was my favorite bit. It is a long book but a fast read, with a story that absorbs you and you can't put down!

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Excellent, Beautiful Writing

Revisado: 01-30-20

Has both all the historical facts and a real life love story. The reading is smooth, insightful, and beautiful. Don't be afraid of the subject matter (as I was at first) because the story goes well beyond the facts of the Holocaust into something much more meaningful. It's definitely one of those books that is hard to put down!

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Good Concept But Needs Expanded

Revisado: 12-12-19

Was really looking forward to this but it left me lacking. If you didn't know about Marie Curie you'd be totally lost. I wish it would have have given more insight on this relationship she had with her friend. Instead it was like sone good ideas about a story thrown together on a page. The beginning was great but the change in person and skim ovet happenings of the day and life of Marie Curie were just odd. The ending odder. Maybe you have to see the actual play instead of just listen?

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Oh I Hope There's More!

Revisado: 04-25-19

Great story with some good original ideas! it feels like just an intro of what could be a series of great stories. Even though there's some dark bits, I think anyone who reads this will love it!

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Super Depressing

Revisado: 09-01-18

Took me 5 tries to read this book club book which I gave up on when the club actually read it. I decided to finally push thru and read the whole thing because I loved "The Namesake" but this just wasn't for me. A totally depressing story that made me feel more sad and lonely in my own life struggles. And I completely did not understand the ending, plus it jumped around WAY more than necessary.

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Eh...Not Mr. Heller's Best Work

Revisado: 08-10-18

I thought this book was sooooooo predictable and really lacked the great imagery and colorful story telling like The Dog Stars and The Painter had. Honestly about 1/4 way thru I wanted to stop reading but figured I loved Peter Heller so I'll hear him out. I dont know why in the world someone would call this his best work to date?? He certainly did leave it open for a sequel though. Next book...Isabella??

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