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AnnoraNin

From Springfield, Missouri USA
Age 62
Joined Saturday, August 11, 2007
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I have been an avid book reader all my life. I was the kind of kid who was always way ahead of the other kids in my class when it came to reading books.

Funny, I don't remember much about what I was reading when I was in high school, probably because I was writing so much poetry at the time. I do remember reading J.R.R. Tolkein's "The Hobbit".

In my early 20's an older boyfriend incessantly talked about this guy named Edgar Cayce so I decided to check him out. When I started reading Edgar Cayce I knew I'd found the answer to all my questions about God and why the world is the way it is. Karma, reincarnation, it made sense of the world for me, and I've been a continuous seeker of Truth ever since then.

I try to go home for the Greater St. Louis Book Fair every year. I have four huge bookcases filled with books. I was probably in my 30's when I became interested in classic literature and began to read Kurt Vonnegut, D.H. Lawrence, Henry Miller, Jack Kerouac, I learned about William Blake, Walt Whitman, Emerson and Thoreau and knew I'd found my kindred spirit in Emily Dickinson.

Somewhere down the line I was introduced to Robert Heinlein, Spider Robinson, Stepen King, Clive Barker and Peter Straus. And I learned about Edward Gorey and Shel Silversteein.

I became more deeply fascinated with metaphysics, the occult and spirituality. I picked up H.P. Blavatsky, A.E.Waite, developed an interest in mysticism and the mystery schools, the Kabbalah, the Zohar, Carlos Castaneda and Marion Zimmer Bradley's "The Mists of Avalon" along with Tolkein's "The Silmarillion".

Two years ago I met a man I can only describe as a mystic. He was half Cherokee and so I began to take a deep interest in Native American spirituality and culture and bought and read many books on the Real People. The best of these was "God is Red" by Vine Deloria Jr.

I have books on conspiracy theories and aliens, erotica and mythology.

I also have many books on alternative medicine and self-help and probably just about every diet and exercise book there is. One particularly good book is "Sugar Blues" by William Dufty. It really opened my eyes to the detrimental effects of sugar.

I also have a quirky habit of picking up old books depicting what was written about medicine and society and its ills in the late 1800's, up to about 1950. I have two books on Eugenics and "Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine" copyrighted in 1896. These books are a hoot to look at considering what we now believe or know about things like sexual practices and diseases, marriage, children, ect.

I know that I will continue to collect and read books until I'm either too blind to see any more or too senile to remember what I read.

I am single and have no children and would love to hear from others who share similar reading interests. I am located in Springfield, MO

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