Blog « Liara Roux - International Escort - Snow White, by Donald Barthelme, was given to me... Snow White, by Donald Barthelme, was given to me by Gemina Novy during my last trip to LA.
I began reading it as my plane lifted off and finished as it landed. I love surreal writing, I love trying to patch together meaning out of sentences that are falling apart at the seams. Barthelme’s writing is eccentrically woven, mixing glimmers of fantasy with the mundane and boring. It is clever. It is rambling and perfectly composed, just off kilter enough. The plot is simply a vehicle for his writing. If you like clever juxtaposition and the deconstruction of archetypes, you’ll like this clever little tale by Barthelme. These 20 Books Are Game Changers, Read Them Before You Turn 30.
Books offer wisdom that we ourselves might need years to figure out.
Between 20 and 30, we all would undergo lots of struggles and have lots of doubts. Below are 20 books that can make your way much clearer, promising and easier. Quitter: Closing the Gap Between Your Day Job & Your Dream Job – Jon Acuff Through wit and experience, Jon Acuff takes us through a journey from dispising your current job to getting your dream job. Acuff shows us the way by making sure we don’t quit too soon or too late. This is a fun and very helpful read for those who want to make the jump and make their dreams a reality. The Power of Habit – Charles Duhigg Through the use scientific studies, author Charles Duhigg shares his labor of love by breaking down how habits are created and how we fail to stop them in life and in business. This is an excellent read for anyone looking to break bad habits and start new ones that lead to success.
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You live several lives while reading. —William Styron Books open doors in our minds, allowing us to live an entire lifetime and travel the world without even leaving the comfort of our chairs. When we read a book, we step into someone else’s shoes, see the world through someone else’s eyes, and visit places we might never otherwise go, whether a tiny village in India or the green fields of Narnia. I Heart Intelligence 10 of the Most Insightful Books from the Last 100 Years. The written word has immense power.
Inspired writers have the ability to move and motivate the reader with insightful information and moments of clarity that just “click” with your internal senses. Often, I think how lucky we are as a culture to have the opportunity to capture the wisdom of men and women who dedicate their lives to sharing their knowledge. The ability to learn from some of the greatest minds in history is as easy as picking up a book. The Harvard Classics: Download All 51 Volumes as Free eBooks.
Every revolutionary age produces its own kind of nostalgia.
Faced with the enormous social and economic upheavals at the nineteenth century’s end, learned Victorians like Walter Pater, John Ruskin, and Matthew Arnold looked to High Church models and played the bishops of Western culture, with a monkish devotion to preserving and transmitting old texts and traditions and turning back to simpler ways of life. It was in 1909, the nadir of this milieu, before the advent of modernism and world war, that The Harvard Classics took shape. Compiled by Harvard’s president Charles W. Eliot and called at first Dr. Eliot’s Five Foot Shelf, the compendium of literature, philosophy, and the sciences, writes Adam Kirsch in Harvard Magazine, served as a “monument from a more humane and confident time” (or so its upper classes believed), and a “time capsule…. What does the massive collection preserve? Collier asked Eliot to “pick the titles” and they would publish them as a series. Related Content:
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