Literature Therapy: finding the book that heals

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• Do you long for the Blessed Virgin?
  on Aug 10, 2016 in Stealing Fatima
  The Blessed Virgin, Virgin Mary, Our Lady, Holy Mother, Mother of God, Earth Mother, Mother Goddess, she’s all one and the same, and lots of people like her a lot.  I read somewhere she’s most popular with middle aged women who were raised C...
• What are you remembering on Remembrance Day?
  on Nov 11, 2014 in The Song of Kahunsha
  Today is a good day to think about the causes of war.  Especially because a lot of us are feeling skittish about multiple recent attacks on people seen as ‘symbol’s of the West, done by members of a certain religion (actually a religion with...
• Are you on a collision course with vengeance?
  on Mar 25, 2014 in The Ever After of Ashwin Rao
  The Ever After of Ashwin Rao, by Padma ViswanathanTerrorist acts beget more terrorist acts, retaliations so horrifying, sins jumping across to the next perpetrators, down the line, till it’s our own family members dying nasty deaths at the hands of...
• Are you kissing a frog?
  on Feb 1, 2014 in “The Frog Prince”
  “The Frog Prince”, by Robert Coover, in the January 27, 2014 issue of The New YorkerEvery myth has its underlying purpose to somehow keep society functioning.  I suppose the one about women kissing frogs prevents them from failing to reprodu...
• Are you a stranger in a strange land?
  on Jan 28, 2014 in Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight
  Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight, by Alexandra FullerImmigrants often feel unwelcome in their new land.  Out of step with the prevailing culture, maybe not fluent enough in the local lingo, serving the wrong food to guests, it must be inti...
• Do you long for your birth mother?
  on Jan 22, 2014 in Secret Daughter
  Secret Daughter, by Shilpi Somaya GowdaDoes anyone truly know the circumstances of their own birth?  Even if you look exactly like your parents, and  even if your DNA test confirms they are your parents, you never really know how your paren...
• Does religion frighten you?
  on Dec 10, 2013 in The Assassin's Song
  Assassin’s Song by M.G. VassanjiAn old saying goes, ‘God invented spirituality, but Satan invented religion.’  How is it that a set of ideas that were meant to elevate can actually destroy?  It must be that when individuals create a r...
• Past Lives—What can you remember?
  on Nov 25, 2013 in Cloud Atlas
  Cloud Atlas, David MitchellAs a pre-schooler, I would tell my Irish Catholic mum that in my last life, I was a Jewish man who was killed in an accident where a balcony over a railway collapsed.  She nearly collapsed.  No, I was not and neve...
• Is anarchy loosed upon your world?
  on Nov 9, 2013 in The Second Coming
  The Second Coming, by William Butler YeatsTurning and turning in the widening gyreThe falcon cannot hear the falconer,Things fall apart, the centre cannot hold,Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhereThe...
• Is time your enemy?
  on Oct 28, 2013 in Welcome to the Goon Squad
  Welcome to the Goon Squad, Jennifer EganTime is relentless and its repercussions unpredictable.  Time itself is not the main character in Jennifer Egan’s, Welcome to the Goon Squad, but the driving force that shapes the story.  Both a dan...

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