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For Small Creatures Such as We: Rituals for Finding Meaning in Our Unlikely World
Sasha Sagan
4.11 AVERAGE
375 reviews for:
For Small Creatures Such as We: Rituals for Finding Meaning in Our Unlikely World
Sasha Sagan
4.11 AVERAGE
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i fell in love w this book at the start and it was a surprisingly quick read for me, despite being nonfiction. i think that the discussion of living a meaningful secular life was explored greatly by sasha sagan and i am really impressed with her writing. much of this book is profound and i predict will stay with me for a while. it is definitely in the best of my 2022 reads!
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This book was super moving to me, since I also lost a parent in my tenage years and am now considering motherhood as well as what I want my spirituality to look and feel like, authentically. A perfect mix of autobiography and wider considerations on the importance and variety of ritual for humans, in a secular atheist way that never diminishes other faiths and religions. If you are looking for a catalogue of rituals, this will probably disappoint you, but if you want a reflective/instrospective read, I highly reccomend this book.
It would have been a 5☆ read if it weren't for a chapter about food rituals which I found a bit superficial and slightly fatphobic, contrasting with the quality of the rest of the book.
It would have been a 5☆ read if it weren't for a chapter about food rituals which I found a bit superficial and slightly fatphobic, contrasting with the quality of the rest of the book.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Death, Death of parent
Wasn't what I wanted it to be — more memoir and musing than I expected.
I relished this wonderful book from Sasha Sagan (Carl Sagan’s daughter). If you’re interested in creating your own rituals or just reading a beautiful contemplation on the many rituals celebrating astronomical, biological, and human experiences, then this book is for you. I love how Sagan’s world view is shaped by a sense of awe and wonder at the “magic” of the natural world.
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This is what I imagine Rachel Held Evans would have written if she had grown up in the family that Sagan did. It’s warm, and respectful toward all manner of faith and spirituality despite the author’s very rationale, agnostic/atheist outlook. It wasn’t everything I had imagined when I read the front, but I enjoyed reading it, and it gave me ideas for rituals of my own to mark time and occasions, “in our unlikely world,” and that’s what I hoped it would be.
Won this book on a Goodreads Giveaway and I really enjoyed it. As someone who is not religious, this book provided great historical context for a variety of rituals that people participate in -as well as scientific background and the natural happenstances that so often align with our rituals. This book made me think about crafting more individual rituals to celebrate life and it was just what I was looking for. Really enjoyed this and it has opened the door to the whole scientific world of Carl Sagan, which I was not familiar with before.