by Barbara Ehrenreich
WHOAH what did I just read? Ehrenreich experiences several dissociative episodes as a teenager, and concludes that maybe some of us are visited by non-corporeal beings in our minds who practice interspecies symbiosis"? Wow, I did not see that ending coming. But that's not even why I disliked this ...
No. This is not happening. Barbara Ehrenreich hanged on with her one mystical experience and thought there is more to life than what we know in science? She has forgotten that our minds were easily trick into believing what is not there. I skimmed through this and it is the one disappointment ...
The short version: This book started out good. Then it got boring. Then it got irritatingly tedious. Then it got offensively bad. True fact: It's impossible to read while simultaneously rolling one's eyes, smacking the book in question on the nearest hard surface, and yelling, "Oh, come ON!" I was d...
Another book that received a somewhat "unexpected" four-star review.I listened to this audiobook all in one day, allowing me an "unbroken" look at the story that usually eludes me. Although one can expect a certain amount of navel-gazing from memoir, this one included it to an especially high degree...
What does a 70-something journalist, advocate for social justice, and life-long atheist trained in science make of the long series of spiritual-feeling dissociative experiences she’s had off and on since she was a teenager? Barbara Ehrenreich, author Nickel and Dimed, turns her unflinching, unsentim...
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