Amanda Leigh Lichtenstein Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Amanda Leigh Lichtenstein

I’m really disturbed to discover that Lidia Yuknavitch’s new book “Thrust” contains incest scenes between cousins. Like, why not mention that somewhere in the blurb? Aurora is described as Frederic’s “firebrand lover” but they’re cousins, right? Yuck.

Amanda Leigh Lichtenstein

I'm reading @RachelAviv's excellent "Strangers to Ourselves," & was reminded of the time I read the haunting book, "I Never Promised You a Rose Garden," when I was just in 6th grade! Talk about how stories shape the way we see the world. I think I took it out from the library?!

Amanda Leigh Lichtenstein

“The power of language remains, first and foremost, a way of singing oneself into contact with others and with the cosmos – a way of bridging the silence between oneself and another…” — “Becoming Animal,” David Abram

Amanda Leigh Lichtenstein

"The opposite of spiritual is not material. The opposite of spiritual is egotistical. It's the transcendence of ego that opens up connections w/nature, w/everything," from a conversation w/ Michael Pollan, "How to Change Your Mind," now on Netflix (the book is even better!).

Amanda Leigh Lichtenstein

Breaking: Ex-Black Panther Albert Woodfox Dies at 75 from COVID complications. He survived 43 years in solitary confinement & wrote a memoir about it called "Solitary: Unbroken by 4 Decades in Solitary Confinement." May he rest in power. https://t.co/pVE87XbaGx

Amanda Leigh Lichtenstein

@AssayJournal I just started "Grief's Country" by Gail Griffin and her writing is sublime. ❤️❤️❤️

Amanda Leigh Lichtenstein

'A murder mystery and a ghost story' about Sri Lanka's civil war wins Booker Prize — great interview with novelist @ShehanKaru, author of "The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida" on @TheWorld, produced by @joyhackel! https://t.co/HWMDL9QuHF

Amanda Leigh Lichtenstein

@DanielTorday I just adored "The Wandering Womb: Essays in Search of Home" by SL Wisenberg, & I hope so many people read it, it's brilliant & funny & exactly what I aspire to in a first-person, artful essay.

Amanda Leigh Lichtenstein

It gives me great joy to buy my friends' #books! Looking forward to "The Hologram: Feminist, Peer-to-Peer Health for a Post-Pandemic Future," by Cassie Thornton & "Rest is Resistance: A Manifesto," by Tricia Hersey/@TheNapMinistry. Also love "Blazing Moon," by @feathersproject.

Amanda Leigh Lichtenstein

“Even spontaneity gets better with practice.” — from Rick Rubin’s “The Creative Act: A Way of Being.”