September 20, 2010

The Trouble With Blame – by: Sharon Lamb (1996)

I got this book hoping to find support for my belief that all blame is folly. Lamb turns out to be a feminist who attacks men in general throughout the book for victimizing women then causing women to blame themselves. Not quite what I had in mind, but maybe even better, since this book will no doubt help me understand better how „victims” think. (Lamb's observations wouldn't be so bad if she left feminism out of it, i. e. a male can suffer every inequity that a female suffers, so why be sexist?)

Magic and Mystery in Tibet - by: Alexandra David-Neel (1932, 2014)

This is one of those rare books that exposes another culture in a way that really opens it up an lets the reader glimpse for themselves what...