When Clive Staples Lewis (author of The Chronicles of Narnia, etc) was a boy and was sent away to a public boarding school, he was miserable because he was acutely shy. Eventually realizing that Clive was too shy for such a place, his father took him out and sent him to live in the country … Continue reading Rescuing Shyness|C. S. Lewis
Shrinking Violets – The Secret History of Shyness by Joe Moran
Recently I finished reading Joe Moran's bestselling 2016 book, Shrinking Violets – The Secret Life of Shyness. You might think that I would be jealous of a shyness book that is commercially successful, when my book, The Shyness Guide, being an 'indie' book, is not allowed to compete in that arena. Well, that's not what … Continue reading Shrinking Violets – The Secret History of Shyness by Joe Moran
The 10 Shyest Novels of all time
These are the 10 shyest novels of all time according to me. Since there were over 25,000 novels written in the 19th century alone, and I probably haven't read more than 150 of them, along with maybe 300 from the 20th and 21st centuries, whose novels no one has even tried to count as far … Continue reading The 10 Shyest Novels of all time
Robert Van de Castle |Our Dreaming Mind
Because I've been studying dreams since I was a boy, every now and then I think it's time for me to write my own book about dreams. But each time that happens I immediately think of psychologist Robert L. Van de Castle's monumental book, Our Dreaming Mind and I discard the thought. It's a book … Continue reading Robert Van de Castle |Our Dreaming Mind
