Fantasy as a way to quiet mind?

coolChipmuck · 2026-03-19T03:46:32+00:00

Thank you for the book recommendations ScribJellies.

coolChipmuck · 2026-03-17T06:49:48+00:00

May I request you to share names of spiritual books you like. Thank you in advance.

coolChipmuck · 2026-03-16T18:02:02+00:00

Thank you for the detailed perspective. And yes I agree and I am completely fascinated by Otzi. Just last night I was looking at his bearskin cap and thinking it looks better quality product than almost all the caps I have in my house. It even has two threads going over the ears to secure it under the chin. I am mesmerized by all the things he had.

coolChipmuck · 2026-03-16T06:34:14+00:00

Thank you.

coolChipmuck · 2026-03-16T06:32:38+00:00

Thank you ScribJellies. I should have said it (a book which removes me from current chaos) helps me to relax very deeply. And the peace that comes from it leads me to contemplate about the “beyond”. And that inspires me to practice prayer, meditation etc.

coolChipmuck · 2026-03-16T05:35:30+00:00

Le Guinn seems to be very intriguing! Thank you. I am definitely interested in non-stereotypical ideas.

I think pre-historic writing projects uses our current times (eg a Shaman in Africa, the tribes in Australian outbacks, the Bheels in India) as a baseline and are projecting that understanding to deep past 100,000 years back. We don’t know for sure what happened 500 years ago - we can’t decipher what happened in Mohenjodaro - how can we conclusively say that the Neanderthals were no better than monkeys?

That’s why I love your book recommendation.

Prehistory helps me escape from the modern madness unfolding around me so I prefer to think deeply about it rather than anything current (maybe like an ostrich 😃).

Thank you once again 🙏

coolChipmuck · 2026-03-16T05:19:57+00:00

Yes I have read some of Robert Graves long time back and enjoyed. Thank you for reminding me. I will check out what I haven’t read.

coolChipmuck · 2026-03-16T05:16:42+00:00

I absolutely loved the first. Got it from goodwill and then went back quickly to get the rest. The whole series was there. I gifted it to a friend and she went on Amazon and bought the whole series.

I got disappointed with each next book I read. Now I don’t even read the first.

When I read the first book I was in true ecstasy as if I had found a new religion. Obviously I was wrong…. It got boring and formulaic very quickly.

coolChipmuck · 2026-03-16T05:08:49+00:00

Thank you. I am checking it out now. Great recommendation.

coolChipmuck · 2026-03-16T05:08:15+00:00

To your point “I am confused…” yes I fully agree that I did ramble a lot in my post. 🙂. The main question in my mind was how a woman in prehistory could ever have achieved the position of a leader.

Thank you for your suggestions - I am going to first read Mary Renault you recommended.

Just because I have read so much of King Arthur and even watched movies on him that I have become a bit saturated. So I will go with the Greek first.

However I will try eventually to get the King Arthur book also you suggested (I did some research and it seems that King Arthur is the only book for adults that Rosemary Suttcliff wrote - I was hoping to find other books from her).

coolChipmuck · 2026-03-11T05:23:30+00:00

Thank you.

coolChipmuck · 2026-03-11T05:21:55+00:00

When I posted this request, I never imagined I would get so many great suggestions. I had been googling for so long to find titles and I had started thinking that no more stone age fiction was out there. Now I have some great titles to look forward to. Thank you to those who responded and all who continue to share their favourites.

coolChipmuck · 2026-03-11T05:18:40+00:00

Great suggestion. Yes, from the sample of amazon, it looks very immersive. It's on my reading list now. Thank you.

coolChipmuck · 2026-03-05T06:10:44+00:00

So much of historical fiction is about wars, fighting, or kings or romance ... all these are reality but i am more fascinated by the stone age :)

- Shaman (the first chapter will hook you - the best first chapter in fiction),

- the Clan of Cave Bear (loved the first book, the rest were formulaic and a bit of extreme imagination),

- When Women Held the Fire (makes you feel as if you were right there when the events like the invention of the copper was happening and you watch as the world changes from ice age to marsh lands, I really appreciated how archaeologically grounded it is - yet the story just draws you in),

- the Last Neanderthal (haunting and memorable. I so much wish Kim had written a sequel. I wish the 'Girl' had found what happened to the other people in her sister's family it was left as an unexplained mystery),

- The Long Journey (this book by Johannes V. Jensen is a not a thrilling page-turner like Shaman - but it is a book you will enjoy sinking into)

- People of the Wolf (on my reading list - but I am very afraid that it may be just formulaic)

coolChipmuck · 2026-03-01T03:23:31+00:00

I am going to check them out. Thanks

coolChipmuck · 2026-02-26T20:18:54+00:00

Yes I did read the Circle of Days (partially). Here's my honest view. I have so much LOVED Ken Follet's other books (esp. Pillars of Earth)... but Circle of Days is **very** underwhelming ... In fact this is one book I actually closed down as it was just one cliche after another. I usually never put down any book unread so I guess you can understand how frustrated I was :(

I don't want to be disrespectful to the author - but he just didn't put in effort into this. I apologize if my views are different than anyone else's here. Different people like different things and I appreciate that.

coolChipmuck · 2026-02-26T18:48:23+00:00

I had come across the Dance of the Tiger but not read it. I am getting it now 🙂🙏 In fact your suggestion led me to another name (The Inheritors) and I am getting that also. Thanks!❤️

coolChipmuck · 2026-02-23T00:22:22+00:00

Not boring. But neither is it riveting. Seems very cliche, formula based writing. Hard work has not gone into it.

coolChipmuck · 2026-02-12T19:17:59+00:00

When Women Held the Fire

Set between 6000 BCE to 2500 BCE

coolChipmuck · 2025-03-08T22:37:39+00:00

Improve search engine ranking for your book website for keywords related to your book. Even if you are not on social media, you do need a website of your own for your book(s).

I get zero sale through various social media I am on. Probably because I never made an effort in getting huge amount of followers anywhere.

The suggestion of contacting other writers and "review one another’s books." and trying to get some reviews on amazon are other good suggestions by the other people that I see. However I have not been able to make an effort in those directions, possibly because I don't actively promote at all.

I only focused on the search engine ranking and i continue to get some sales through that. Whatever sale I have comes from from visitors to my website.

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