connie (e/we're so back) Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging
Sebastian Junger
Ishmael (Quinn) Gates of Fire (Pressley) Tribe (Sebastian Junger) Hope Dies Last (or anything by Studs Terkel really) The Phantom Tollbooth π₯Ί https://t.co/Ytpw61peQQ
Hardcover, 2016
$22.00$11.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Hope Dies Last: Keeping the Faith in Troubled Times
Studs Terkel
Ishmael (Quinn) Gates of Fire (Pressley) Tribe (Sebastian Junger) Hope Dies Last (or anything by Studs Terkel really) The Phantom Tollbooth π₯Ί https://t.co/Ytpw61peQQ
Paperback, 2004
$17.95$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Good Reasons for Bad Feelings: Insights from the Frontier of Evolutionary Psychiatry
Randolph M. Nesse
Nesse's Good Reasons for Bad Feelings is a p interesting book in this regard - the idea is that even our negative emotions like anxiety, depression etc are part of a naturally adaptive system to certain situations and their absence is harmful https://t.co/WPUf2Okz7C
Out of stock

One Long River of Song: Notes on Wonder
Brian Doyle
@tommycollison Sand Talk - indigenous perspectives on history and culture One Long River of Song (Brian Doyle's essay collection) Humble the Poet - Unlearn: 101 Simple Truths (heard him on a podcast re: self-love, seemed super cool dude) Reading Like a Writer (slowly making my way through π )
Paperback, 2020
$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Trust (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
Hernan Diaz
yo I finally started reading Hernan Diaz's Trust and it's SUCH a good example of how "tell not show" can totally work when the tell has style and verve π― i'm on like 3-5 highlights a chapter https://t.co/X1BFDEjXej
Paperback, 2023
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Fire
Sebastian Junger
Ishmael (Quinn) Gates of Fire (Pressley) Tribe (Sebastian Junger) Hope Dies Last (or anything by Studs Terkel really) The Phantom Tollbooth π₯Ί https://t.co/Ytpw61peQQ
Paperback, 2002
$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book