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Genoveve
05-13-2016, 11:39 AM
She's written a bunch of ridiculous articles on xojane lately and there's a certain level of wtfery in all of it.

I have watched a lot of her interviews, especially recent ones, and she is definitely off. She's lead a very hard life and it seems like her struggles did not cause her to grow as a person at all. The very things that she resented her mother for she seems to completely possess herself.

Genoveve
05-23-2016, 10:45 PM
I finished Stephen King's Pet Sematary tonight, it was my first S.K. book and I enjoyed it. I wanted to read it because the movie is one of the scariest movies I've ever seen, it's actually the top scariest tied with one other movie. I only have 1 critique, which isn't really a critique; I don't know if anyone here has read the book but the land of the pet cemetery is cursed Indian burial ground and wendigos are involved and I'm cool with all of that, I love that kind of stuff. But in the book the whole town is sort of cursed along with the cemetery and whatever it is cursing the land is able to get into and influence the minds of the townspeople which is what urges them to bury their dead in the cemetery to bring them back to life. I seem to remember that element not being in the movie so much and maybe that's why I kind of don't prefer that aspect of the book, I think it's more freaky to me if the crazy things that the characters do involving their dead loved ones come solely from a place of maddening grief. Like they're just acting out of severe emotional trauma and not because the spirits of the cursed land are forcing them to.

kaninchen
05-24-2016, 01:47 PM
^ I read Gerald's Game by Stephen King a while ago and it was TERRIFYING. But in a good way lol. I would recommend it.

penny25
05-24-2016, 10:10 PM
I read this quote from The Bell Jar and put a request for it at my library, look forward to reading it:

“I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poet and another fig was a brilliant professor, and another fig was Ee Gee, the amazing editor, and another fig was Europe and Africa and South America, and another fig was Constantin and Socrates and Attila and a pack of other lovers with queer names and offbeat professions, and another fig was an Olympic lady crew champion, and beyond and above these figs were many more figs I couldn't quite make out. I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet.” ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

Genoveve
05-28-2016, 10:28 PM
My mom gave me a few of her old Wayne Dyer books a long time ago that I've never gotten around to reading, today I felt an impulse to read one so I started with the first one I found which is called Real Magic. I ♥ Wayne Dyer.

Genoveve
08-19-2016, 11:37 AM
I got a book a while ago called Out on Foot that's by this former San Diego border patrol agent about his paranormal experiences in his patrol areas but the book started out with a lot of non-paranormal border patrol anecdotes so I got bored, put it down and got occupied with other books. I picked it up and started reading it again last night though and it's great, even all of the non-paranormal stuff. I live close to the border and am constantly surrounded by border patrol agents and have been to Tijuana a bunch of times so it's interesting to read more in-depth about what goes on so close-to-home.

A great history book I finished recently was called Great Leopold's Ghost, it was all about the Belgian King Leopold II's huge private colony in the African Congo and the atrocities that went down in it. It's crazy that this guy was responsible for more deaths than Hitler and yet we never really hear about it. It's unfortunate too that all of the atrocities that were happening in his colony were really happening in all of the European African colonies, it's just because his colony was so fucking huge that his death tolls ended up being so much higher than everyone else's. Plus it was the only colony that was privately owned by one individual(King Leopold II), so I think it's easier for people to target and demonize one person than it is for them to demonize an entire country/government.

ETA tomorrow I have 2 new books arriving; the Color Purple(because I love the movie) and Frankenstein.

Genoveve
08-24-2016, 04:24 PM
I read Frankenstein and it wasn't what I expected. I liked the movie with Helena Bonham Carter so I thought I would like the book, it was really short though and told through letters, I was expecting it to be a major novel. Plus in general I didn't find it to be that interesting, maybe it was earth-shattering in the 1820s but not in 2016.

Genoveve
08-26-2016, 03:39 PM
I finished the Color Purple yesterday, I wasn't planning on reading it yet because I just recently watched the movie but I picked it up and couldn't put it back down, I really liked it. The book goes more in-depth about Nettie's experiences as a missionary in the African colonies which was interesting to me because I have been reading so much about Africa during that time period, the Law of Attraction really does just keep bringing you more and more of whatever wavelength you're on. I started Heart of Darkness like 2 weeks ago, I'm going to finish that next then maybe try reading some of Stephen King's short stories. There's 5 books I want to order so I'm really trying to sit down and get through all of the ones I have now.

LAChloe
10-25-2016, 12:56 PM
I got a book a while ago called Out on Foot that's by this former San Diego border patrol agent about his paranormal experiences in his patrol areas but the book started out with a lot of non-paranormal border patrol anecdotes so I got bored, put it down and got occupied with other books. I picked it up and started reading it again last night though and it's great, even all of the non-paranormal stuff. I live close to the border and am constantly surrounded by border patrol agents and have been to Tijuana a bunch of times so it's interesting to read more in-depth about what goes on so close-to-home.



Thank you for recommending this. I finished this last night and it was amazing.

Years ago when I was a teenager and my son was a baby, I was driving to my friend's house who lived in Coronado Cays. I exited the 5 to head there through IB and somehow made a wrong turn or did something (remember I was a teenager and had barely been driving for a few months) and I ended up in a forested area by the fence. I could totally feel some type of heebie jeebie weirdness and the hair on my arms was standing up. OMG I was so scared. And I had no cell signal to call her to figure out where the fuck I was. I will never forget that. I believed every story he told in that book! That area is creepy as hell.

Genoveve
10-25-2016, 04:15 PM
Thank you for recommending this. I finished this last night and it was amazing.

Years ago when I was a teenager and my son was a baby, I was driving to my friend's house who lived in Coronado Cays. I exited the 5 to head there through IB and somehow made a wrong turn or did something (remember I was a teenager and had barely been driving for a few months) and I ended up in a forested area by the fence. I could totally feel some type of heebie jeebie weirdness and the hair on my arms was standing up. OMG I was so scared. And I had no cell signal to call her to figure out where the fuck I was. I will never forget that. I believed every story he told in that book! That area is creepy as hell.

I'm glad you liked it! Lol I bet the author would never imagine that women on a stripper forum are buying and reviewing his book. What was shocking to me about the work of the field agents was how completely unsophisticated it was, like it's literally just a couple guys with oftentimes next-to-no weaponry wandering around huge expanses of rough terrain in complete darkness by themselves. I guess it makes sense though because if you want to catch the illegals you have to be stealthier than them, but I still wasn't expecting it to be THAT 'bare bones.'

Another thing I learned from that book is that mountain lions and bobcats are not the same thing.....I thought they were. I didn't realize that mountain lions were huge and now I'm disturbed that wildcats that big live so fucking close to me. :O Also my friend who grew up in South Bay told me about some story she would hear at camp involving a little girl that drowned in a river, and in the book there's all the stories about the little girl ghost including the guy who saw her floating face-down in the river. Makes you wonder if that's where the camp story my friend would hear about originated.

And you know what else creeped me out a lot in that book? Do you remember the part about the family that lived in the house that was practically on the fucking border that all got murdered in it? And I think he said that nothing ever really came of it because crimes close to the border like that tend to be under-reported, I guess because it's done by illegals that are practically impossible to track or trace. The idea of just living so far out there and by the border is just so freaky to me, WHY would anyone want to live out there? I am shocked that people are even allowed to live there, I would have assumed that all of that border land belongs to the government.

LAChloe
10-25-2016, 11:10 PM
I'm glad you liked it! Lol I bet the author would never imagine that women on a stripper forum are buying and reviewing his book. What was shocking to me about the work of the field agents was how completely unsophisticated it was, like it's literally just a couple guys with oftentimes next-to-no weaponry wandering around huge expanses of rough terrain in complete darkness by themselves. I guess it makes sense though because if you want to catch the illegals you have to be stealthier than them, but I still wasn't expecting it to be THAT 'bare bones.'

Another thing I learned from that book is that mountain lions and bobcats are not the same thing.....I thought they were. I didn't realize that mountain lions were huge and now I'm disturbed that wildcats that big live so fucking close to me. :O Also my friend who grew up in South Bay told me about some story she would hear at camp involving a little girl that drowned in a river, and in the book there's all the stories about the little girl ghost including the guy who saw her floating face-down in the river. Makes you wonder if that's where the camp story my friend would hear about originated.

And you know what else creeped me out a lot in that book? Do you remember the part about the family that lived in the house that was practically on the fucking border that all got murdered in it? And I think he said that nothing ever really came of it because crimes close to the border like that tend to be under-reported, I guess because it's done by illegals that are practically impossible to track or trace. The idea of just living so far out there and by the border is just so freaky to me, WHY would anyone want to live out there? I am shocked that people are even allowed to live there, I would have assumed that all of that border land belongs to the government.

Yes, I can not believe it is just 2 people...or even 1. WTF? I could never be alone by myself in nature anywhere. So scary.

When I was reading about the house and how it was the same as when the family was murdered (as far as everything in the house was still there), I sickly thought, "Oh I want to hike there and look at it"...but I obviously would never do that. Ugh freaks me out.

Also, the story where the one agent was out alone and then the 3 Mexican military members came up to him on our side of the border and when he looked at their name tags they were different? That gave me goosies, too. That dude is so lucky to br alive.

My friend who lived in the Coronado Cays had stories of Mexican people who would wash up on shore dead bc they tried to swim across and drowned. We take it for granted that we get to live here just because we were born here. There are people out there that would literally risk their life to be here...illegally making minimum wage. And my biggest problem today is that the Halloween costume I want is sold out on Amazon. It puts things into perspective.

I know you like metaphysical and law of attraction stuff- I recommended this to another girl on SW and want to recommend it to you, too- Laura Day "The Circle"- It is powerful!

Genoveve
10-26-2016, 08:59 PM
^^I added it to my list!


When I was reading about the house and how it was the same as when the family was murdered (as far as everything in the house was still there), I sickly thought, "Oh I want to hike there and look at it"...but I obviously would never do that. Ugh freaks me out.

I had the same thought lol. But yeah that area sounds way too dangerous to be roaming around in, and that's not even counting the paranormal aspect. Oh and the fact that those guys are wandering out alone among the mountain lions that he said are no longer scared of people because of all the foot traffic in the area......no thnx. Those guys deserve to get paid a lot more.