Rating: 5/5 “To be human is to confuse a satisfying story with a meaningful one, and to mistake life for something huge with two legs. No: life is mobilized on a vastly larger scale, and the world is failing precisely because no novel can make the contest for the world seem as compelling as the... Continue Reading →
Rating: 4.5/5 The bright yellow book jacket of Figuring naturally prompted many questions while I schlepped it around. It was no simple feat to answer the query “What is your book about?” as Maria Popova defies any sort of classification in her thoughtful, circular, and transcendent writing. At its core, this book is about a... Continue Reading →
Rating: 4.5/5 Name a major event of the last century. You could say World War II, the Civil Rights Movement, 9/11, the Iran-Contra scandal, the Space Race, and many many more. Cancer is on the rise. There are enough nuclear weapons to destroy the Earth many times over. An island of plastic larger than western... Continue Reading →
Rating: 5/5 It’s hard to believe that anyone in the US understands how to live off the land anymore. As participants in society, we accept our extremely specialized roles where we go to work, make money, spend money on things we like, and repeat. Despite this bleak cycle, there is one man who for decades... Continue Reading →
Rating: 5/5 “[T]here is nothing right or wholesome anywhere in today’s politics.” How does one go about rating a 2,500-year-old book? Just the fact that a book has lasted this long is a feat within itself. Plato’s The Republic goes beyond that, however. It reveals a lot of inner truths about the nature of humanity... Continue Reading →
Rating: 4.5/5 “The how of Pooh?” I read this entire little book in one sitting. It’s short, sweet, and revealing. Benjamin Hoff uses an engaging and passive style of conversation between the reader and the Pooh’s cast to reveal more about The Way and how it applies to our everyday life. “While Eeyore frets,And Piglet... Continue Reading →
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