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Weekend Book Recommendations

2082 sats \ 32 comments \ @sn 16 Dec 2023 BooksAndArticles

What books are you all reading this weekend? Any topic counts!

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522 sats \ 2 replies \ @TonyGiorgio 16 Dec 2023

Gradually, then suddenly 🔥

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @kr 16 Dec 2023

good call, gotta get myself a copy

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @nemo 16 Dec 2023

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654 sats \ 5 replies \ @BitByBit21 16 Dec 2023

I have suffered from clinical depression most of my life. For those who have to deal with this mental disorder or may be interested in the subject, I recommend this book:

The Upward Spiral by Alex Korb PhD.

https://www.audible.com/pd/B00T3J3M54?source_code=ASSOR150021921000R

146 sats \ 1 reply \ @cryotosensei 16 Dec 2023

Your recommendation reminded me of “Reasons to Stay Alive” by Matt Haig. If you don’t mind, I would like to share my IG review of his book.

I thought @mattzhaig did an excellent job writing about a topic as serious as depression in an easy-to-access manner. So easy that I dared to bring this book to an outdoor camp, where the student noise threatened to rupture my eardrums.

Back to the book. I used to think that anxiety leads to depression but after this book, I realise that anxiety and depression are 2 distinct conditions. Matt described the difference in a striking metaphorical manner: depression is like being stuck in a swamp while anxiety is like having whirlpools swirling in the swamp. I think I get it.

One of the greatest strengths of this book is how Matt writes poignant truths via breathtaking literary devices. I found myself dogear-ing the pages ever so often. Take his depiction of mindfulness for instance: “as a way of adding punctuation into the breathless sentence of your life”. I don’t mean to say that he romanticised depression, only that he made it relatable for those of us who are spared from its clutches.

Besides being vulnerable and sharing his struggles, he also wrote how undertaking various pursuits (running, reading, travelling) helped him manage his condition. I thought how remarkable he was to tackle depression from a position of resilience.

The thing that I thought was lacking in the book was his relationship with his then-girlfriend (now-wife), Andrea. How did Andrea support him? Why didn’t she leave him? How did Matt choose to lean on her? Given that connections are the one factor that provide ammunition against life’s challenges, I thought describing how they coped with depression would add another dimension to the book.

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @elysia 16 Dec 2023

Thanks, I need to read this instead of doom-scrolling.

64 sats \ 0 replies \ @BononXD 16 Dec 2023

I must admit that I didn't want to just translate this text because I'm a Pole who doesn't quite know English but nothing, let these 200 satoshi serve well

21 sats \ 1 reply \ @SatsCats 16 Dec 2023

Well done for recognising and taking action. Also thanks for the openness and vulnerability, I hope you are doing better 🥰

I'm about to start "The body keeps the score"

https://m.stacker.news/8277 https://m.stacker.news/8281

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @BitByBit21 16 Dec 2023 freebie

Thanks for your kind words and for sharing

266 sats \ 0 replies \ @siggy47 16 Dec 2023

All My Friends Are Going To Be Strangers by Larry McMurtry. I first read it years ago. It's my favorite novel of his, but I guess Lonesome Dove is the most famous. He was also a book collector, and opened a famous bookstore in his Texas hometown named Booked Up.

371 sats \ 0 replies \ @NewsnNudes 16 Dec 2023 freebie

Worth reading!!! Get yourself a copy!!

https://m.stacker.news/8306

554 sats \ 0 replies \ @Signal312 17 Dec 2023

I finished The Case Against Sugar, by Gary Taubes. Last week I was reading Pure, White, and Deadly, also an anti-sugar book.

I've immersed myself in nutritional books recently. This book is another in my series which I'm calling "everything we 'know' about food is a lie". If you want a good starting point, I recommend The Big Fat Surprise, by Nina Teicholtz

I was just at a Christmas event last night, a potluck. It's really astounding how much sugar people eat. Even though it was supposed to be a dinner-type potluck, 80% of what people brought was sweets, of all descriptions. And a few raw veggie platters, with seed-oil sauce for dips.

Avoiding sugar and seed oils as well is tough - I'm finding I need to "pre-eat" before these types of events.

233 sats \ 0 replies \ @dgy 16 Dec 2023

The Bitcoin Mining Handbook and Bitcoin Mining Economics. Both written by Daniel Frumkin.

159 sats \ 0 replies \ @jasonofbitcoin 16 Dec 2023

Mastering Bitcoin, by Andreas M. Antonopoulos

[WARNING: Did you catch the "milk sad" incident a few months ago in which funds were lost due to people using the default 'bx seed' command to generate a bitcoin address? The default invocation of this command appears in the second edition of this book without any warning or disclaimer about its unsuitability for use with real funds! Always know the entropy source when generating seeds/keys for production use!]

https://milksad.info/