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The Book Whisperer
I am not one for setting store on New Year's resolutions and much prefer to try out new habits a month earlier. But sometimes the calendar does provide an appropriate boundary
So this year I made an exception
The goal was to not just read a minimum of one proper book per month but to post a summary of it on Dreamwidth
But those rave reviews of "The No Asshole Rule", Michael Lewis's "Boomerang","The Book Thief" by Markus Zusak and most recently "David and Goliath" are not simply set as private entries. They simply do not exist
Hell. I finally managed to finish "The Art of the Deal" and not a squeak
But a strange development happened lately
On Sunday 18th March I started reading Kevin Sutton's "The Wisdom of Psychopaths" that I just happened to find while sorting the broom cupboard.
Absolutely riveting
But then the inner serpent whispered and hissed that the psychos can wait for another day and that it would be far more useful to go back to reading "Mastering Bipolar Disorder" which I got at a charity shop some 4 weeks ago
That would serve as a suitable snack on the side while the main course just had to be "The Prisoner of Azkaban"
Izzie has learnt the hard way that when the inner serpent starts whispering, bad things happen if I ignore her
This is not the post I wanted to write. When staying at the Dursleys there is no proper keyboards,both my Bluetooth keyboards died before last year's Nanowrimo so this hunting and pecking is miles behind what I wanted to say
Back in August 2001 a little voice insisted on picking up at the local library the strange and esoteric "e- The Story of a Number" followed by the Potters
With 20/20 hindsight it was a sneaky way to keep me out of the house of turtles and hedgehogs
(e is a hermit neighbour of the infinitely more famous π but prefers to lurk with Gringotts goblins and other dark curly creatures)
Moonrise on Good Friday was a most auspicious time to revisit Harry Potter and his black dog friend and of course those dreaded Dementors
It must be the sixth time now and there is still something new each time. Ms Rowling knows a lot more about the mind and its strange magic than she is letting on.
So now some 17 years later, I have finally sussed out the inner serpent's preferred means of sending messages to the main brain
It was so obvious that I cannot believe it took this long
I think she is hinting that the green light bulb moment of January 2002 is a mere Damp squib in comparison to the fireworks show that she has been plotting and planning since Vernon Dursley's recent rampages and despicable rants over the last 3 weeks
Now I just need to go find a copy of "How to tame your Obscurus for fun and profit" or to write it myself if I cannot find a copy
"An Obscurus is developed under very specific conditions: trauma associated with the use of magic, internalized hatred of one's own magic and a conscious attempt to suppress it."
(I will link to the source in a later edit as I don't trust this tablet)
Letting the Beast run wild to go rampaging like the proverbial bull in the China shop making life hell all those who cross one's path is reckless and irresponsible but locking it up and throwing away the key presents its own set of problems as this serpent knows only too well
Or rather - did NOT know until it was pointed out so recently
So this year I made an exception
The goal was to not just read a minimum of one proper book per month but to post a summary of it on Dreamwidth
But those rave reviews of "The No Asshole Rule", Michael Lewis's "Boomerang","The Book Thief" by Markus Zusak and most recently "David and Goliath" are not simply set as private entries. They simply do not exist
Hell. I finally managed to finish "The Art of the Deal" and not a squeak
But a strange development happened lately
On Sunday 18th March I started reading Kevin Sutton's "The Wisdom of Psychopaths" that I just happened to find while sorting the broom cupboard.
Absolutely riveting
But then the inner serpent whispered and hissed that the psychos can wait for another day and that it would be far more useful to go back to reading "Mastering Bipolar Disorder" which I got at a charity shop some 4 weeks ago
That would serve as a suitable snack on the side while the main course just had to be "The Prisoner of Azkaban"
Izzie has learnt the hard way that when the inner serpent starts whispering, bad things happen if I ignore her
This is not the post I wanted to write. When staying at the Dursleys there is no proper keyboards,both my Bluetooth keyboards died before last year's Nanowrimo so this hunting and pecking is miles behind what I wanted to say
Back in August 2001 a little voice insisted on picking up at the local library the strange and esoteric "e- The Story of a Number" followed by the Potters
With 20/20 hindsight it was a sneaky way to keep me out of the house of turtles and hedgehogs
(e is a hermit neighbour of the infinitely more famous π but prefers to lurk with Gringotts goblins and other dark curly creatures)
Moonrise on Good Friday was a most auspicious time to revisit Harry Potter and his black dog friend and of course those dreaded Dementors
It must be the sixth time now and there is still something new each time. Ms Rowling knows a lot more about the mind and its strange magic than she is letting on.
So now some 17 years later, I have finally sussed out the inner serpent's preferred means of sending messages to the main brain
It was so obvious that I cannot believe it took this long
I think she is hinting that the green light bulb moment of January 2002 is a mere Damp squib in comparison to the fireworks show that she has been plotting and planning since Vernon Dursley's recent rampages and despicable rants over the last 3 weeks
Now I just need to go find a copy of "How to tame your Obscurus for fun and profit" or to write it myself if I cannot find a copy
"An Obscurus is developed under very specific conditions: trauma associated with the use of magic, internalized hatred of one's own magic and a conscious attempt to suppress it."
(I will link to the source in a later edit as I don't trust this tablet)
Letting the Beast run wild to go rampaging like the proverbial bull in the China shop making life hell all those who cross one's path is reckless and irresponsible but locking it up and throwing away the key presents its own set of problems as this serpent knows only too well
Or rather - did NOT know until it was pointed out so recently