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My Dream Library 

Welcome to my dream library!  

You don't need a card to visit or check out any of the enchanted stories.  Please pull up a comfy chair, brew yourself a cup of tea, and enjoy... and don't worry about the dragon, she is very friendly...  unless you damage a book that is.  I can't be responsible for what might happen then.

Typically, when I meet a kindred soul, I can sometimes overwhelm them with enthusiasm and overshare all the things that I love.  It is akin to being caught in a glitter explosion and getting buried under titles of books, movies, articles, photos, stories, philosophy, spirituality, psychic phenomena, clothes, cats, and...

 

To mitigate this, I have listed below many of the things that excite me or have had an impact on me in some way.  This list is by no means exhaustive; it is merely a starting point on the inner roadways of inspiration for my imagination. 

 

By explanation…

I enjoy happy endings and stories with a positive outcome...

I make no apologies for this.  Visuals and engaging stories profoundly influence me, and so I choose to surround myself only with happiness.  Life has enough trials and tribulations for me without adding to them with disturbing fictional stories.  I am still traumatized by my grade school teacher’s reading of Old Yeller.  Therefore, the stories I list below are beautiful, enchanting, quirky, or old-fashioned swashbuckling fun yarns.  If there is an exception to this, I have put an asterisk by it.  Those few stories may be challenging, sad, somewhat graphic, or slightly disturbing.  To me, they have value in terms of their power, lessons, or beauty.  I love them, and so I have included them on my list.  Be warned, however, they are not simply feel-good stories.

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 My Book List 

Fantasy/Faerie/Magic

*Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings books*

*Harry Potter series by JK Rowling

CS Lewis Books

All of Sarah Addison Allen’s books

*The Discovery of Witches series by Deborah Harkness

All of Carolyn Turgeon’s books

Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley

"Something Rich and Strange" by Patricia A Mckillip

Most of Alice Hoffman’s books, especially Practical Magic and The Rules of Magic

Way of Wyrd by Brian Baites

The Mythago Woods by Robert Holdstock

The Wood Wife by Terri Windling

Most books by Charles de Lint

Old-fashioned mysteries and other fun stories,

not blood and guts stories

All of Sherlock Holmes

All of Phyllis Whitney’s books

All of Elizabeth Peters' books, especially the

Amelia Peabody mysteries

The Tea Shop Mysteries by Laura Childs

Queen Elizabeth I mysteries by Karen Harper

Barbara Michaels (Mysteries with a paranormal twist)

Agatha Christie’s books

T.S. Spivet by Reif Larsen

All books by Dorothy Gilman

Plains of Passage series by Jean M Auel

Paranormal/romance trilogies by Nora Roberts

 

Stories evocative of the magical

American Southwest

All of Tony Hillerman's books

His daughter’s books, Anne Hillerman

The Haunted Mesa by Louis L'Amour

Bridge at Ottoway

All of Mabel Dodge Luhan’s books

All of Dorothy Pillsbury’s books

Milagro Beanfield Wars by John Nichols

Shamanic/Psychic/Spiritual

Neal Donald Walsh’s Conversations with God

All of Abraham-Hicks' books

The Teachings of Theo books by Sheila and Marcus Gillette

Seth books by Jane Roberts and Robert Butts

All books by Lee Harris

All books by RJ Spina

The Untethered Soul by Michael A Singer

All Orin books by Sanaya Roman and Duane Packer

All books by Sonia Choquette

Eddie Conner’s books

Michael Harner’s The Way of the Shaman

Other books by Michael Harner

All books by Dan Millman

Carlos Castaneda

All of Lynn V Andrews' books

All of Hank Wesselman’s books

The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran In

The Shadow of the Shaman by Amber Wolfe

All books by Paul Coelho

 

Myth and archetypal stories

Women Who Run With the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Ph.D.Joseph Campbell’s Power of Myth

A Little Book on the Human Shadow by Robert Bly

Helpful books and people’s inspirational stories

When Things Fall Apart by Pema Chodron

Anything else by Pema Chodron

All books by Wayne W Dyer

Dying to be Me by Anita Moorjani

Awakenings from the Light by Nancy Rynes

You are a Badass by Jen Sincero

Life by the Cup by Zhena Muzyka

All books by Annie Lemont

Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert

All books by Deepak Chopra

All books by His Holiness the Dalai Lama

The Diamond Cutter by Geshe Michael Roach and Lama Christie McNally

Love, It's How I Manifest by Mandy Morris

The Dream Book by Betty Bethard

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  My Moving Pictures 

Just good stories

Gilmore Girls

TV seriesSherlock Holmes with Robert Downey Jr and

Jude Law

*Braveheart

*Rob Roy

*Out of Africa

Avatar

Anna and the King with Jody Foster

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

Chocolate

O Brother, Where Art Thou

Northern Exposure TV series

Pirates of the Caribbean

Indiana Jones series

Spy with Melissa McCarthy

Hidalgo

Contact

*Tea with Mussolini

Quirky English/Irish stories

Saving Grace

Doc Martin and the Legend of the Cloutie

Doc Martin the Movie

Doc Martin, the TV series

Rosemary and Thyme

The Secret of Ronan Iish

The Beautiful Fantastic

Waking Ned Devine

 ​Faerie/Fantasy/Magical

*The Lord of the Rings Series by Peter Jackson

Harry Potter series

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

Practical Magic

Enchanted April

*Charmed TV series

Fairy Tale: A True Story

*Excaliber

The Milagro Beanfield Wars

The Secret Garden with Maggie Smith

The Chronicles of Narnia

Lady in the Water

*The Twilight Series

The Secret of Moonacre

Hocus Pocus

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Willow

Stardust

The Spiderwick Chronicles

A Midsummer Night's Dream with Michelle Pfeiffer and Kevin Kline

Legend with Tom Cruise

Peter Pan (2003) with Jason Isaacs

Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland

 ​UK TV productions

Downton Abby

*Sherlock Holmes with Benedict Cumberbatch and

Martin Freeman

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