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Books

The books I read in order to write.

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My favorite memory as a kid was when my dad would take me to the Hayward Public Library to checkout some books. I still remember the layout and I find that when I’m lost in a reverie, I think about being in that library curled up with a stack of books. This is my happy place. That enthusiasm never escaped me β€” till this day I rack up credit card points in exchange for a massive 3,000 volume personal library. This is why I work, to bring these comforts to my life so I can time travel in my head to times of past or fiction. While I do consume these books, in 2020 I realized I need to also be a creator. I started writing my first book, Manifest. Since then, I’ve found that I’m equally as happy writing as I am reading β€” and recently I’ve been charting a career path that allows me to combine the two. Heaven really does exist and it’s when I’m reading & writing. If you’re a fellow bibliophile, don’t hesitate to reach out. A shared love of reading is a deeply understood bond between people.

Annual Reading Goals

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Reading Goals

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Current
Target
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25

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20
25

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12
25

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50
50

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50
50

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85
100

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150
100

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Current Progress

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Read Dates
652

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Fiction
1398

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Literary Collections
549

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Humor
1167

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Biography & Autobiography
May 1, 2026
436

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Psychology
Apr 20, 2026

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The Body Keeps the ScoreThe Body Keeps the Score
The Body Keeps the Score
Bessel van der Kolk M.D.

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Highlights, Quotes, Notes & Bookmarks

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The Hero with a Thousand Faces
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β€œThe unconscious sends all sorts of vapors, odd beings, terrors, and deluding images up into the mind – whether in dream, broad daylight, or insanity; for the human kingdom, beneath the floor of the comparatively neat little dwelling that we call our consciousness, goes down into unsuspected Aladdin caves. They're not only jewels but also dangerous jinn abide: the inconvenient or resisted psychological powers that we have not thought or dared to integrate into our lives.”
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β€œThe hero is the man of self-achieved submission. But submission to what? That precisely is the riddle that today we have to ask ourselves and that it is everywhere the primary virtue and historic deed of the hero to have solved.”
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β€œThe so-called rights of passage, which occupies such a prominent place in the life of a primitive society (ceremonials of birth, naming, puberty, marriage, burial, etc.), are distinguished by formal, and usually very severe, exercises of severance, whereby the mind is radically cut away from the attitudes, attachments, and life patterns of the stage being left behind. Then follows an interval of more or less extended retirement, during which are enacted rituals designed to introduce the life adventurer to the forms and proper feelings of his new estate so that when, at last, the time has ripened for the return to the normal world, the initiate will be as good as reborn.”
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