What are you reading?

[ElliotViola]

Reading an incredible book called 'Out of the Dark', by Linda Caine and Robin Royston.

It's a biography, in the form of the diary of the mental patient Linda and her Psychiatrist Dr Royston. It details the journey using Jungian Psycotherapy into Linda's unconscious to try to find out what is causing her suddenly onset manic depression before she commits suicide.

Life for Linda Caine should hold no fears. As a contented wife and mother, she should have everything to live for. Yet a blackness has started to leak into her thoughts. Images flash through her head leaving her stunned and breathless. On the face of it there is no rational explanation for the way she feels. Linda believes there is something malign inside her. But in the back of her mind a voice tells her over and over again that everything will be OK. When it finally gets too much, she can always simply die. 'How shall I die if that time comes? I need to know these things. They have to be planned.' It must look like an accident. She will deliberately drive off the road on her way home from her weekly shopping trip. After all, who commits suicide with a load of groceries in their car?

The raw and powerful journey Linda takes with her psychotherapist Robin Royston to discover what lies at the heart of her deptression will leave you shocked. The secrets in her African childhood and adolescence are buried so deep that to reveal them may destroy her completely. Together Linda and Robin race to unravel the clues, before it is too late.

Absolutely amazing book, it's gripping and enthralling, and I read it cover to cover from the start. I started reading it at 10pm and couldn't go to sleep until 4am when I finished.

I'd recommend it! Out of the Dark (at Amazon)

Looking for a new read at the moment, something like this maybe?

Anyone got a suggestion?

[Green Knight]

Stephen King--The Shining

[Quijote]

L'Affaire Bomarzo, Opéra, Perversion et Dictature, Esteban Buch, Collection Cas de Figure, 2011, Paris, Editions de l'Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales.
A story of the banning of Ginastera's opera in Argentina in 1967.

[Green Knight]

William Philpott--Three Armies On The Somme: The First Battle Of The Twentieth Century

[Green Knight]

William L. Shirer--The Rise And Fall Of The Third Reich

[Green Knight]

Harry Harrison--Deathworld

[ilovebaroque]

"The Science of God" by Gerald L. Schroeder

Evidence for the eternal argument that science and religion, matter and spirit, need not be seen as mutually exclusive.
Highly recommended

[ilovebaroque]

"Musicophilia-Tales of Music and the Brain" - Oliver Sacks

This is my fourth read of this book. Fascinating study about the effect of music on the brain.

[ilovebaroque]

"Personality Types - Using the Enneagram for Self-Discovery"- Don Richard Riso with Russ Hudson

Anyone who is interested in acquiring a better understanding and appreciation of himself and others must read this book. IMHO, the best guide in existence for personality typology.

[ilovebaroque]

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=music-intervals-sway-moods&WT.mc_id=SA_CAT_BS_20120727

What do you think about this?