![]() ![]() They are not in chronological order, but it’s not hard to follow. Meditations is divided into 12 books that chronicle different periods of Aurelius’ life. Marcus Aurelius writes as one should write, especially when writing as a form of meditation: examining every little detail and writing with great simplicity and clarity. You might also want to read a little bit about his life (sometimes it’s included in the Introduction part) in order to get familiar with the background. The book starts with Marcus Aurelius extending gratitude to everybody around him who had helped him in one way or the other. The book is based on Stoicism, a philosophy of personal ethics informed by its system of logic and its views on the natural world. According to its Stoicism, as social beings, the path to eudaimonia (happiness, or blessedness) is found in accepting the moment as it presents itself, by not allowing oneself to be controlled by the desire for pleasure or fear of pain, by using one’s mind to understand the world and to do one’s part in nature’s plan, and by working together and treating others fairly and justly. ![]() The lessons drawn might be old, but their relevance has only grown with time. It contains the private thoughts of the world’s most powerful man at that time on how to lead a better life. Meditations written by a Roman emperor, Marcus Aurelius, is perhaps the only book of its kind. ![]()
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"An inspiring story that manages to be painful, honest, shocking, bawdy and hilarious." -The New York Times Book Reviewįrom stand-up comedian, actress, and breakout star of Girls Trip, Tiffany Haddish, comes The Last Black Unicorn, a sidesplitting, hysterical, edgy, and unflinching collection of (extremely) personal essays, as fearless as the author herself. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Our hero is Riley Larson (misspelled “Laron” on the back cover), a freelance writer/high school janitor in his early 30s who lives outside of Chicago. It takes a while to get to the good stuff, though. What more could you ask for? The Immortal concerns itself with a Satanic group - not a cult, as the members stress - whose leader turns out to be the titular “immortal,” granting himself this extended life through mysterious means. Thumbing through my other Tigges books, it looks like they’re all the same – big books, big print, and fairly lurid, with a strong focus on horror exploitation, pulpy thrills, and explicit sex. Like most other Leisure horror novels The Immortal runs to a fat 400 pages, but it’s got super-big print and Tigges’s writing is so pulpy and melodramatic that you’ll finish the book in record time. ![]() John Tigges published several horror paperbacks through Leisure Books in the ‘80s I’ve picked up a few over the years, but this is the first I’ve read. ![]() ![]() ![]() And I wanted it not to be one single person seeing the world but kind of almost like a choir of people. KNAUSGAARD: Well, first of all, I wanted to do something very far from what I have been doing until now, which is writing about myself and my own life. KARL OVE KNAUSGAARD: Thank you very much.įADEL: So I just want to start with how we got "Morning Star." I mean, this is your first work of total fiction in over a decade after writing your six-volume autobiographical series, "My Struggle." What brought you back to fiction and this story in particular? Joining us now is author Karl Ove Knausgaard. The novel is an unsettling and biblically-infused story that explores life, death and the in-between. Crabs fill the street far from the water, swarms of ladybugs cover a terrace, and animals that shouldn't be there appear on roads, in homes. Then a new star appears in the sky and things get strange. It's told through the eyes of several people, among them a professor, a priest, a journalist all struggling with the challenges that are life, love, mental health, addiction, career failures, work-life balance, global warming. 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Millie Murray's address is 13107 83Rd St, Lenexa, Ks, KS 66215. ![]() ![]() She even found a rich boyfriend much like Prince Charming. Growing up she only dreamt of happy ending and she wanted to be a TV star and be famous. The story revolves around Jessie Woods, who like Cinderella, had a stepmom and two stepsisters who hated her. And there was this book, slapping me right across my face and reflecting part of my life in a philosophical way. I was struggling to breathe and keep up with the pace of life. I read it at a point in my life where everything was going wrong for me. At about 80 pages I decided to put down the book because I couldn’t take it anymore. I had a splitting headache and it only got worse as time and pages passed by. I was travelling when I first started reading this book. This is a modern Cinderella story and I love fairy tales just like every other girl in this whole world so I picked it because I wanted to read it. When I came across this book, I loved the colour. ![]() ![]() ![]() I was very picky with my books because I wanted the right proportion of serious books and light hearted ones but I also didn’t want to miss the best books. It was Lock The Box sale and I will write about it all in another blog, later. I gifted my nephew one and kept the rest with me. I went for a book sale in December and picked up a lot of books. It has been long but I want to write again. ![]() ![]() ![]() The central figure of the novel is Bit, who we first meet as a small child as his parents, the architect Abe and his wife Hannah, and the rest of the Arcadia clan first come upon the land. Her hippies discover the abandoned acres and crumbling mansions and see a dream community, yet like a good horror story, Groff has planted seeds of discord. What makes discussing Arcadia difficult is that even as she luxuriates in detailing the founding of Arcadia, a commune built up by hippies in the 1970s, she also creates unavoidable pitfalls that ensure that this commune and utopian ideal cannot succeed. Having established herself with her debut, The Monsters of Templeton, as someone who could weave a plot with shimmering language, Groff has turned her focus from the mysteries of genealogy to the conundrum of building a home in the natural world. Such beauty is even harder to pin down when discussing the qualities of Arcadia, the second novel by the brilliant young writer Lauren Groff. Even if you manage to cup a butterfly between your palms, you can only peek between your fingers to watch its wings open for a brief moment. ![]() Rather, the problem arises from finding ways to pin the beauty down. It’s not about a lack of material, specific details, or turns of phrase that sing out long after you close the pages. It’s hard to write about beautiful books. ![]() ![]() ![]() Seuss Wrote t he Cat in the Hat, Library Lion, My Little Sister Ate One Hare, My Little Sister Hugged an Ape, And to Think That We Thought That We'd Never Be Friends, The Road to Oz, Velma Gratch, and The Way Cool Butterfly. ![]() Kevin Hawkes is the author and illustrator of The Wicked Big Toddlah and The Wicked Big Toddlah Goes to New York, and is the illustrator of many well-loved books for young readers including Imagine That:! How Dr. Her last book, The Abominables, was one of eight books on the longlist for the same award in 2012. She was a finalist for the 2010 Guardian Children's Fiction Prize at the time of her death. For the historical novel Journey to the River Sea (Macmillan, 2001), she won the Smarties Prize in category 9–11 years, garnered unusual commendation as runner-up for the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, and made the Carnegie Medal, Whitbread Award, and Blue Peter Book Award shortlists. ![]() Some of her novels for adults have been successfully reissued for the young adult market in recent years. Eva Ibbotson, born Maria Charlotte Michelle Wiesner (1925–2010), was an Austrian-born British novelist, known for her children's books. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Since the presidential campaign in 2018, Mr. A Bolsonaro campaign against the Freire legacy Bolsonaro’s supporters, disseminated messages of hate against Freire, blaming him for the Brazilian education system’s failures and deriding him as a communist. 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The court decision may shut down some of Mr. The same week of the Freire centenary, President Jair Bolsonaro’s administration was forbidden by a judge’s ruling to attack Freire’s legacy, calling the president’s various comments and institutional moves against Freire an abuse of the freedom of expression. ![]() ![]() Brazil’s celebration in September of the centennial of Paulo Freire (1921-1997), the educator and philosopher behind Pedagogy of the Oppressed, was overshadowed by the nation’s ongoing political polarization. ![]() ![]() In the Black feminist tradition of Audre Lorde, Brittney Cooper reminds us that anger is a powerful source of energy that can give us the strength to keep on fighting. ![]() I was waiting and she has come in Brittney Cooper." Michael Eric Dyson: " Cooper may be the boldest young feminist writing today.and she will make you laugh out loud." So what if it's true that Black women are mad as hell? They have the right to be. Melissa Harris Perry: "I was waiting for an author who wouldn't forget, ignore, or erase us black girls. Damon Young: Like watching the world's best Baptist preacher but with sermons about intersectionality and Beyoncé instead of Ecclesiastes. ![]() There is so much about her analysis that I relate to and grapple with on a daily basis as a Latina feminist. America Ferrera: Razor sharp and hilarious. Joy Reid, Cosmopolitan: A dissertation on black women's pain and possibility. Roxane Gay : I encourage you to check out Eloquent Rage out now. 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