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"More Books. Less Pills!" is an independent Substack with book recommendations to help you navigate neurodivergent life challenges through curated reading. Subscribe: http://bit.ly/4nQl2zg (*Not a substitute for medical advice*).

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More Books. Less Pills! @morebookslesspills.substack.com · 29d

This is the very first post of "More Books. Less Pills!". Please send me any type of feedback! 📚💙 #booksky

Book Rx #1 - The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat - By Oliver Sacks open.substack.com/pub/morebook...

Book Rx #1 - The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat - By Oliver Sacks

How a compassionate study of patients with unusual symptoms can teach you not to define yourself by diagnosis and its limitations.

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More Books. Less Pills! @morebookslesspills.substack.com · 13h

This week's post is about a short and powerful novella from Dostoevsky. If you've never read anything from him (scared of the sheer size of his books), "Notes from Underground" is the best one. Check the review here: open.substack.com/pub/morebook... #booksky

Book Rx # 5 - Notes from Underground - by Fyodor Dostoevsky

The act of getting lost on a spiral of pessimistic rumination is, often, classified as a disease. But negative self-talk is also, if you look at it from a certain angle, some unique form of art.

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More Books. Less Pills! @morebookslesspills.substack.com · 1d

Book Rx # 5 - Notes from Underground - by Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Book Rx # 5 - Notes from the Underground - by Fyodor Dostoevsky

The act of getting lost on a spiral of pessimistic rumination is, often, classified as a disease. But negative self-talk is also, if you look at it from a certain angle, some unique form of art.

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More Books. Less Pills! @morebookslesspills.substack.com · 7d

Book Rx 4 - The Snow Leopard - by Peter Matthiessen #booktok #booksky open.substack.com/pub/morebook...

Book Rx 4 - The Snow Leopard - by Peter Matthiessen

Discover how Peter Matthiessen’s The Snow Leopard offers a timeless lesson in patience, presence, and mindfulness with its blend of travel, philosophy, and Buddhist insight—showing how reading itself ...

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More Books. Less Pills! @morebookslesspills.substack.com · 11d

After seeing so many people struggling with ADHD diagnosis, I've decided to write this review: bit.ly/bookrx1 #adhd #booksky #nonfiction

Book Rx #1 - The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat - By Oliver Sacks

How a compassionate study of patients with unusual symptoms can teach you not to define yourself by diagnosis and its limitations.

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Yale University Press @yalepress.bsky.social · 12d

“An admiring, thorough, and swift account of a writer’s unabating struggles with ambition, romance, and politics. [Philip Roth: Stung by Life] has some fascinating scoops‚ major interviews and materials to which Zipperstein alone had access.”—Julius Taranto, The Forward

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More Books. Less Pills! @morebookslesspills.substack.com · 12d

Definetly it's more a "journey" than a mere book! I always try to recommend it to anyone I know, specially because some chapters can be read as standalone novellas.

Emma Lewis @petchary.bsky.social · 12d

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Read this book recently and the after effects have been pretty intense. Peoples' lives, peoples' lives. Men, women, children. Rich and poor. Pious and reckless. Kind and ugly. Struggling and greedy. It just has everything.

Benji, the Jack of Hearts 🔆🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🇺🇦🌹 @destroytime.bsky.social · 12d

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More Books. Less Pills! @morebookslesspills.substack.com · 12d

Anxiety, depression, and isolation most of the time come from companies that train you to keep wanting things you don’t even need or like. And the concepts from the book 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝘁𝘂𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗖𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗯𝘆 𝗪. 𝗗𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗱 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝘅 helped me to realize that. (See the full review): bit.ly/4ovYaFO #Booksky #nonfiction

Book Rx #3 - Status and Culture: How Our Desire for Social Rank Creates Taste, Identity, Art, Fashion, and Constant Change - by W. David Marx

Anxiety, depression, and isolation most of the time come from companies that train you to keep wanting things you don’t even need or like.

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More Books. Less Pills! @morebookslesspills.substack.com · 13d

I wish there were books as creative as this one when I was growing up. 2e gifted to a toddler, but everyone read and loved it. Totally recommend as a Xmas gift. #booksky

More Books. Less Pills! @morebookslesspills.substack.com · 14d

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Book Rx #3 - Status and Culture: How Our Desire for Social Rank Creates Taste, Identity, Art, Fashion, and Constant Change - by W. David Marx

Anxiety, depression, and isolation most of the time come from companies that train you to keep wanting things you don’t even need or like.

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More Books. Less Pills! @morebookslesspills.substack.com · 15d

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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 17d

ICYMI: The Sunday Times is partnering with Bookbanks and Coram Beanstalk on a Get Britain Reading campaign to address the UK’s reading crisis 👇 #BookSky

The Sunday Times launches Get Britain Reading campaign with Bookbanks and Coram Beanstalk

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Joseph O’Sullivan @mightyjoeyoung.bsky.social · 17d

My latest read. This is an important book. The two authors are a prominent climate scientist & a medical researcher. The book details who, how & why science is being undermined. When climate & vaccination science are weakened, as they are now, the consequences are terrifying. 1/2 #booksky #NYPL

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More Books. Less Pills! @morebookslesspills.substack.com · 18d

The passive-aggressive (or just aggresive) way Cory Doctorow dealt with his frustration with Audible made me laugh!

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Why None of My Books Are Available on Audible

Check out this great listen on Audible.com. A short audiobook I produced to be distributed through Amazon's ACX platform, explaining how that platform's sloppy rights verification and mandatory DRM sc...

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NancyKay Shapiro 📖🎸🐶🎶🗽 @nancykay-alt-acct.bsky.social · 18d

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. #books #booksky #publishing #reading

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They’re Cheerleaders for the Best Books You’ve Never Heard Of

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Elizabeth Sofia 💙🐈🐶🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 @skippjon1.bsky.social · 21d

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Ypsilanti District Library @ypsilibrary.org · 22d

There's no perfect way to read—just the way that works for you. 📖

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More Books. Less Pills! @morebookslesspills.substack.com · 22d

WORD!

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Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social · 22d

An Animated Introduction to the Existentialist Philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre… and How It Can Open Our Eyes to Life’s Possibilities

Among the vogue names of midcentury Western philosophy, few ever rose to such cultural heights as that of Jean-Paul Sartre. Fans once dropped it whenever they could, and made sure to be seen reading B...

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More Books. Less Pills! @morebookslesspills.substack.com · 22d

Here I'm trying to make a case in favor of Bibliotherapy with an important caveat: big, complex life questions need good literature (like James Baldwin), not best-seller self-help "easy steps". #nonfiction #booksky #booktok

Book Rx #2 - Go Tell It on the Mountain - James Baldwin

A classic novel that serves as a masterclass to understand intergenerational trauma, and how the past of our families and countries are shaping who we are now

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Clara 🍓 @clarabelle.xyz · Dec 31

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More Books. Less Pills! @morebookslesspills.substack.com · 23d

Libby is a game changer!

More Books. Less Pills! @morebookslesspills.substack.com · 23d

The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914, by Christopher Clark

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azliz.bsky.social @azliz.bsky.social · 24d

📚💡💙 291/365 Books -- I Thought It Was Just Me (but it isn’t): Telling the Truth about Perfectionism, Inadequacy, and Power by Brene Brown. I did a slow read of this with my therapist. Really helped me understand the reason for perfectionism and gave me actionable steps to combat it.

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Authors Publish | Magazine for Creative Writers @authorspublish.com · 24d

#LitMags paying up to $500 for fiction, #nonfiction, #poetry, and #comics in October 2025.

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» 5 Paying Literary Magazines to Submit to in October 2025

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#BookSky moderator 💙📚 @booksky.club · Aug 22

Very exciting news, you can now follow the BookSky Patreon page for free! 🤩There will be polls and other updates posted there if you want to help decide what happens next for #BookSky 🪐📚🌶️📚🩸📚💬

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