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‘Why Does He Do That?’ by Lundy Bancroft. I don’t usually read self-help books or like them. But I was in a “mildly” abusive relationship for a year and this book was the recognition I needed afterwards for healing. It’s also just written extremely well, witty and uses tons of anecdotes from his professional life. I would recommend this to anyone who is somewhat interested in psychology and especially anyone that has gone through something similar. Instead of focusing on you as the victim in the relationship, the focus is on the abuser, goes into their rhyme and reason and it’s incredibly refreshing and solidified that ‘it really wasn’t me’.
Does “all of them” count? I think some of the beauty of reading for me is that I get to see so many worlds, and so many perspectives, that so many can touch me in small and subtle ways.
One of the earlier ones I remember making an impact was The Robots of Dawn by Isaac Asimov. All of his Robots books and the Three Laws played a huge role in making me fascinated by AI and the philosophy of AI.
The invisible life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Scwab.
Its a book that I keep thinking about. There are stuff about the story that I could critique but the story itself isn’t what affected me.
It was the way Addie truly loved exploring and that there was always something new. I have always loved reading but I only did it a few times a year. But after I read that book I started reading way more often. Part of me believes that I took that part of Addie. The desire to keep exploring, for me it was the desire to experience stories in whatever form they took.
Another part if me believes that Ive always had that, but that story awakened the desire to explore stories more often.