currently reading: (I can't say this because it would dox me lol it's a book about ethnobotany in my region)

started 13 february 2026 -

mindfulness in plain english - Bhante Gunaratana

started 20 january 2026 - finished 13 february 2026

notes:This was IMPORTANT to me. Honestly I really needed to grasp the fact that mindfulness is NOT, like I half-expected it to be months ago, a way to latch onto good moments. What comes up comes up, the end. On the other hand I think that the author's urgency and vehemence kind of contradict with the points he makes sometimes, and I honestly just found them kind of annoying sorry. Overall I prefer Kabat-Zinn's more relaxed approach.

da circe a morgana: scritti di Momolina Marconi - Momolina Marconi, Anna De Nardis

started 6 january 2026 - finished 20 january 2026

notes:eh... I honestly expected better, I was very hyped for a study on the specific characteristics of the Goddess in the Mediterranean, but Momolina's writing actually put me off a bit. Don't get me wrong I'm not illiterate, but what the fuck is this? "L’Androgine perpetua un incontro felice e quindi ignora il divenire della generazione; invece l’autonomia feconda non sa il valore del germe, e quindi il presupposto d’ogni pregnanza. Le quali due concezioni riflettono forse lo stesso stato culturale e, su per giù, si possono anche considerar coeve, sempre nell’espressione più pura del mito." Sorry but... but no. I find the style to be... hatefully academic, but after all, that was to be expected. I actually liked the style of the curator, Anna De Nardis, more.

woman and nature: the roaring inside her - Susan Griffin

started 28 december 2025 - finished 5 january 2026

notes: chills. Overall, chills.

gyn/ecology - Mary Daly

Mary Daly's a saint. I found this book when I was just beginning to get informed about feminism and I didn't expect to be completely blown away by it, this book BREATHED SPIRIT into me. Daly has such rhetorical power and she can cut through myths and reversals and set alight women's minds like no one else.

woman and nature: the roaring inside her - Susan Griffin

Above all I love women who speak inspired, vehement, with the same passion and authority as a preacher, and so I love this work in which Susan pours forth sacred words from her mouth. I adore the songs of languid love towards this world and I adore the calls to unapologeticness, to uncompromisingness, to unwavering self-allegiance, to rage, to animality, to do like the Lion in the Den of the Prophets: "She does not understand this language. She devours them."

the great cosmic mother - Monica Sjöö, Barbara Mor

This is the best thing that came out of last century's Goddess movement. It's definitely got outdated research in some points but, I think it's clear by now, I can't resist far-reaching, genre-blurring books. I can't begin to describe the amount of genius found in this book. What I love most about it, and what sets it apart from other works in its same category, is that it always keeps its universal, general, primordial character even when once it's moved on from the sections dedicated to prehistory.