About Amy

LitRx stands for Literature Prescription. It's a marketplace for used books, stuff you want to write with and write on, & special items to enhance your desk space and reading experience. inspired by the eclectic clothing stores of BC, run by Amy Park, a local editor and internet nerd.


The goal of the bookshop is to connect people with used books from across BC. I'll comb the Okanagan for old and interesting tomes, and in the future I will provide a shop-front for your old previously-loved books to be consigned. Combining the fun of treasure hunting through old bookstores with a lifelong love of the Internet.


One day I hope to be able to invest in stocking up the books in this store to make my dream for it become a reality. As of now I'm showcasing titles from my personal collection to give you a glimpse of who I am and what my interests are, while offering collections of stationery and desk items.

Reading about Goering and Hess in their lead up to their trials for war crimes. It’s interesting to get an account of their personality / neurotic natures. I wonder how true the accounts are.

Hess was apparently into astrology / sooth saying, and was described to have been schizophrenic with periodic amnesias. Psychosomatic symptoms plagued his body while his mind slowly broke over the attempt to cope with being largely responsible for some of those horrors.

Goering is presented as an opiate addict and social chameleon whose insanity seemed to rise at pace with his power during the German turn towards Nazism.

I’m morbidly curious about how they were affected by the stress of being responsible for such monumental atrocities. What must that feel like, to be crushed under the weight of global Justice?

I never want to know, but I do want to learn and read different perspectives.

Book is Justice at Nuremberg by Robert E. Conot.
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30 September 2017 / reblog
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I’m having a pretty intense few days. Have a job interview this week and am training at the crematorium. I wasn’t sure if it was for me, because I’ve never experienced it before, and I’m not sure I’ll be able to continue. As you can probably imagine, it’s a very intense thing to do, and I’m having a hard time with it. So I am sincerely hoping that my interview goes well so that I can transform my life in the best possible direction. All I want to do is be the best me that I can be, help people, and sell books online.
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26 September 2017 / reblog
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The Denial of Death is in the running for the most important book I’ll ever read in my life. It is about more than just death, it’s a poetic and passionate work by a PhD in cultural anthropology. He taught at SFU in Vancouver for many years. This is the culmination of his life’s work, as he knew he was dying when he wrote this.

He discusses depression in a way that makes so much sense that my heart beats harder, trying to reach out and connect with the author. But he is dead. So instead, my heart aches to share it with the world. Highly recommended, I will post some excerpts.

Also… Cat and yoga this morning, then off to assist the funeral directors of Vernon. My first service in the Okanagan.
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23 September 2017 / reblog
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So grateful for this moment in comp the other day :) sorry for the blur, I was trying to catch it before the match started.

We held the first point of Numbani on defense. While I was saying “good job team we got this” during prep for attacking, Dragonmaster decided to say “we don’t need a girl to be our leader”

… Ummmmm…

I didn’t say anything. I was just stuck with my eyebrows raised. But the rest of my team jumped in right away to say:

- that was not nice
- what does male / female matter?
- I don’t think we would have been able to hold that without the callouts
- why don’t we be positive?
- she can lead, great call outs

Ha ha! This is what Jeff was talking about… The community taking responsibility for harassment.

I deal with a lot of harassment on overwatch and have noticed this pattern: when teammates say nothing, or join in, the harassment gets worse and worse and the game goes down the drain. But when people turn their backs to the harasser with even the bare minimum of disagreeing with their words, it helps so much to keep things going well for the game (not to mention the effect it has on the mind of the person being harassed….)

So yeah! Shout out to my team from the other day for being awesome.

19 September 2017
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