Recommendations Of Books! By Ana

recommendations of books! by ana

I read until I fall asleep

ʚ- All books im looking foward to read this summer! some non fic and fic hope you find something that interests you. its kinda long

ʚ- Almost all of them are tiktok recs the user of where i find the book will be in pink.

Book's:

Memoirs / essays

Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture : Cultural critic and bestselling author Roxane Gay has edited a collection of essays that explore what it means to live in a world where women are frequently belittled and harassed due to their gender, and offers a call to arms insisting that "not that bad" must no longer be good enough.

Maybe You Should Talk to Someone : From a psychotherapist, and national advice columnist comes a thought-provoking new book that takes us behind the scenes of a therapist's world -- where her patients are looking for answers (and so is she).

Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism : The author of the widely praised Wordslut analyzes the social science of cult influence: how cultish groups from Jonestown and Scientology to SoulCycle and social media gurus use language as the ultimate form of power.

Romance

Book Lovers : If Nora knows she’s not an ideal heroine, Charlie knows he’s nobody’s hero, but as they are thrown together again and again—in a series of coincidences no editor worth their salt would allow—what they discover might just unravel the carefully crafted stories they’ve written about themselves.

Seven Days in June : Brooklynite Eva Mercy is a single mom and bestselling erotica writer, who is feeling pressed from all sides. Shane Hall is a reclusive, enigmatic, award-winning literary author who, to everyone's surprise, shows up in New York.

science / philosophy

When god was a woman ; Here, archaeologically documented, is the story of the religion of the Goddess. Under her, women's roles were far more prominent than in patriarchal Judeo-Christian cultures. Stone describes this ancient system and, with its disintegration, the decline in women's status. Index; maps and illustrations.

It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle : A groundbreaking approach to transforming traumatic legacies passed down in families over generations, by an acclaimed expert in the field

Written in Bone: Hidden Stories in What We Leave Behind : Drawing upon her years of research and a wealth of remarkable experience, the world-renowned forensic anthropologist Professor Dame Sue Black takes us on a journey of revelation. From skull to feet, via the face, spine, chest, arms, hands, pelvis and legs, she shows that each part of us has a tale to tell. What we eat, where we go, everything we do leaves a trace, a message that waits patiently for months, years, sometimes centuries, until a forensic anthropologist is called upon to decipher it.

Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents : If you grew up with an emotionally immature, unavailable, or selfish parent, you may have lingering feelings of anger, loneliness, betrayal, or abandonment. You may recall your childhood as a time when your emotional needs were not met, when your feelings were dismissed, or when you took on adult levels of responsibility in an effort to compensate for your parent’s behavior. These wounds can be healed, and you can move forward in your life.

feminism / law

Justice and the Politics of Difference : This book challenges the prevailing philosophical reduction of social justice to distributive justice. It critically analyzes basic concepts underlying most theories of justice, including impartiality, formal equality, and the unitary moral subjectivity. Starting from claims of excluded groups about decision making, cultural expression, and division of labor, Iris Young defines concepts of domination and oppression to cover issues eluding the distributive model.

The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017 : Original, engaging and striking, Palestine – A Biography crosses historical events, never-before-explored archival materials and accounts of generations, dealing in a simultaneously sober and emotional way with the facts of a tragic confrontation between two peoples who claim the same territory.

Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny : Misogyny is a hot topic, yet it's often misunderstood. What is misogyny, exactly? Who deserves to be called a misogynist? How does misogyny contrast with sexism, and why is it prone to persist--or increase--even when sexist gender roles are waning? This book is an exploration of misogyny in public life and politics, by the moral philosopher and writer Kate Manne.

Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity : Since its publication in 1990, Gender Trouble has become one of the key works of contemporary feminist theory, and an essential work for anyone interested in the study of gender, queer theory, or the politics of sexuality in culture. This is the text where Judith Butler began to advance the ideas that would go on to take life as "performativity theory," as well as some of the first articulations of the possibility for subversive gender practices

Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex" : In Bodies That Matter, renowned theorist and philosopher Judith Butler argues that theories of gender need to return to the most material dimension of sex and sexuality: the body. Butler offers a brilliant reworking of the body, examining how the power of heterosexual hegemony forms the "matter" of bodies, sex, and gender. Butler argues that power operates to constrain sex from the start, delimiting what counts as a viable sex.

Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot : oday's feminist movement has a glaring blind spot, and paradoxically, it is women. Mainstream feminists rarely talk about meeting basic needs as a feminist issue, argues Mikki Kendall, but food insecurity, access to quality education, safe neighborhoods, a living wage, and medical care are all feminist issues. All too often, however, the focus is not on basic survival for the many, but on increasing privilege for the few.

Aquí no ha habido muertos : El ciclo de terror, corrupción y tragedia impulsado por las drogas en Colombia no terminó con la muerte de Pablo Escobar en 1993. Justo cuando los colombianos estaban listos para dejar atrás el legado asesino de los cárteles del país, se desarrolló un nuevo y sangriento capítulo. A fines de la década de 1990, los grupos paramilitares de derecha con estrechos vínculos con el negocio de la cocaína llevaron a cabo una campaña de expansión violenta, masacrando, violando y torturando a miles de personas.

Poem

Good Grief : When Brianna Pastor released her self-published poetry collection, Good Grief, she was blown away by the outpouring of support from people who reached out and said, “Yes. Me too.” For anyone who has struggled with questions of identity or coped with serious emotional issues, including grief, trauma, anxiety, and depression, this collection will help you find hope on the other side.

Instructions for Traveling West: Poems ; A vivid and inspiring poetry collection about what’s possible when we heed our instincts and honor our intuition, allowing ourselves to strike out for new territories of love, pleasure, and peace.

omg i just ove books xoxo ana

reading playlist +

ʚ - It's never too late to do what you've always wanted to do, go to that dance or guitar class, tell your friends to go on that trip or finally tell them something you've been holding back because of grief, allow your soul to have thousands of first times forever.

goals for july!

Some goals I'm going to put into my routine this month! It's my birthday month and I'm still on vacation so most of them will be focused on my personal development rather than academics!

Clear goals for this month!

Reading: well this won't be hard but I want to read more this month! it's good for me! I already have a book list for this month.

Therapy: I need to schedule appointments with a new psychologist and psychiatrist.

Start new medications: I have been off medications for months and one of my goals is to find a combination of medications to help me with my psychiatrist! it would help me a lot!.

Maintain constant physical movement: I need to improve my relationship with my body and exercise and I plan to do this by maintaining some movement every day! a walk, jog, exercise or yoga.

Going out to socialize: I need to socialize more, I'm going to go to places I like, libraries and stuff! I swear I'll make friends.

organize everything for my return to school: I need to organize papers, subjects, schedules and all that stuff! the sooner the better!.

Eating healthy: I need to eat more fruit and have a healthier relationship with wanting to eat better and not judge myself or have relapses in my tc*a.

Doing affirmations and being thankful: I want to have mass awareness of if im being thankful and have affirmations that go with me and help me to regulate myself.

read the bible: i want to start my bible studies.

xoxo ana

the manifesto (manifestation & self-knowledge)

Today I decided to do an exercise of self-knowledge and manifestation that I believe can help you if you feel lost of your goal, disconnected from you, feel that you don't know yourself or that you don't have personality or you are not "you".

It has many names and variations and I call it "the manifesto" because it is basically what we are going to do, it will be a text where we say everything we are, we want to be, we love and we feel without fear or sorrow, this will allow us to have a pure reference of who we are / we want to be.

it allows us to see ourselves without fear of being judged for who we really are, the process of getting to know ourselves and ending the cycle of shame by being happy and authentic is a long process and these exercises help us to gradually see ourselves as people and take care of ourselves.

remember that you are not what you have, your physical possessions do not make you valuable or unique, your passions, your values, your compassion and your love for you is what is real.

step by step:

ʚ - Grab a piece of paper or create a document on your cell phone or coputer.

ʚ - name it the manifest of (your name) or a name that vibrates with you.

ʚ - start by saying your name is and write down everything you are, your qualities, the things you are still working on, your physical qualities, etc.

ʚ - write your likes and dislikes like (your name) love romance movies, exercising with friends, etc. just things you love to do or want to start doing that you love like painting again.

ʚ - read it and reflect on who you are, imagine being someone else and appreciate all the little things that make you who you are.

ʚ - save it and add to it, take away some and create a manifesto of who you are and what you love.

The most important thing is to be honest and have no filter, it is for you, say that thing that you feel is ashamed for liking only for fear of what others say, put those characteristics that you feel embarrassed to say out loud for not sounding egocentric say "I'm awesome at my job" without shame, it is your safe space and it is yours, treat it with love.

any questions my ask is open! best of luck and love.

xoxo ana

letting go of a relationship of years is one of the most challenging things there is, even when the romantic love is gone, the affection, respect and good wishes remain and learning to deal with the fact that what was there for years in the place in your mind where that person was, is now just that, forces us to revisit everything we thought we knew about romantic love and change it.

a beautiful process anyways, learning to love from afar, to let go and know that some people come to accompany us and love us for moments and that is all it is meant to be. we grow, we learn together and we go our own ways.

Give you a playlist according to the moodboard + lyrics you choose!!

Today I wanted to make a more relaxed post depending on the moodboard you choose a playlist thats it! all the playlist are mine or i used them myself.

This was so funny to make i love it!

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ʚ- "is even more than anyone that you adore can love is all that I can give to you" L-O-V-E by Frank Sinatra

ʚ- "But when I see those angels on the roof i'll know I've made it when my doobie smoking Jesus puts my name up on his guestlist" Astrovan by Mt. joy

ʚ- "Estoy brillando con highlighter (¿No lo ves?) un clavel en mi melena (¿No lo ves?)" by Rosalia

ʚ- "No chance I'll waste my twenties on random men not one of them is cooler than all my friends" by Gracie Adams

ʚ- "Era distinto en 1932 volver a volver, saber que no estás y yo nunca estaré no quiero contar, lo mismo que ayer" by la maravillosa orquesta del alcohol