Nonetheless, I can’t help but see similarities between them when it comes to addressing the opposition. The Underground Man is, of course, far more acerbic and arrogant Johanne de Silentio is definitely more humble and benign. It reminds me a lot of the way Dostoevsky has the Underground Man address and dismiss his naysayers in Notes From Underground. It’s been a very pleasant surprise discovering Kierkegaard’s sense of humour, especially, his way of addressing and countering those he’s opposing. “The slaves of misery, the frogs in life’s swamp naturally exclaim: ‘Such love is foolishness: the rich brewer’s widow is just as good and sound a match.’ Let them croak away undisturbed in the swamp. So instead, I thought I’d blog about this quote that made me laugh out loud: I’d been wanting to make my next “ Reading Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling” post a post about the connection between a story in the Grimm’s Fairy Tales and Kierkegaard’s pseudonym, Johannes de Silentio, in Fear and Trembling, but it’s been a stressful and busy month and I haven’t yet been able to afford the time.
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It talks about only ten worldly possessions. And the most interesting poem for me is 'Ten Things'. She talks about how she changed after being this particular age. I specifically liked reading 'After Thirty'. The author focuses on relationships, writing her past and the present all the ridiculousness of the blame games directed to her because of her writing, her poems and being an artist seasons, love, loss, time and healing being a woman and how life gets chaotic and how beliefs matter. And so apt for the September 2020 even though the book is coming out in November 2020 and was compiled in 2019 which started with a poem with the same name of the book title published in one of her popular poetry collection two years ago. So far, I feel this is one of her best collections. I have been reading Lang Leav's poetry collections for the past two years and yes, I will keep reading whatever she writes. They’re taping up the stained and crumpled fliers of one of the apocalypse cults. We drive by three bald people wrapped in gray sheets. PARIS IN FLAMES, NEW YORK FLOODED, MOSCOW DESTROYED Everyone was plastered to the news during the early days when reporters were still reporting. I don’t need to read the papers to know what they say. Newspapers cover shop windows along the road, making a corridor of reminders of the Great Attack. On the horizon behind us, the angels’ aerie still smolders in flames after the Resistance strike. Half a dozen military trucks, vans, and SUVs weave through dead cars away from San Francisco. The dawn light etches the grief lines on my mom’s face while the rumble of the engines vibrates through my limp body. I lie with my head on my mother’s lap in the open bed of a large truck. It has been translated into over 30 languages. The book engages in a multi-disciplinary study of historical events, an examination of scientific studies, and philosophical argumentation in order to advance Bregman's opinion that, this outlook is more realistic compared to its negative counterpart. It argues against ideas of humankind's essential egotism and malevolence. It argues that people are decent at heart and proposes a new worldview based on the corollaries of this optimistic view of human beings. It was published by Bloomsbury in May 2021. Humankind: A Hopeful History ( Dutch: De Meeste Mensen Deugen: Een Nieuwe Geschiedenis van de Mens) is a 2019 non-fiction book by Dutch historian Rutger Bregman. Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for History & Biography (2020). Publieksprijs voor het Nederlandse Boek (2020). There she is left as an experiment to see whether she can produce Flow and feed the babies but not before she learns of the concerns of Sister Teasel: Taken under Sister Sage’s wing (sorry), Flora travels through the hive with her to the Nursery. Flora ‘is obscenely ugly…excessively large’ and can speak – highly unusual for her kin. Abnormal’ by the hive police, she is saved from certain death by Sister Sage, one of the priestesses. Her kin was Flora and her number was 717.įlora 717 is a worker bee, born to serve in the lowest class of the hive – sanitation. This was the Arrivals Hall and she was a worker. Her rigid body unlocked and she calmed as knowledge filled her mind. All she could do was breathe until gradually the vibration and static subsided and the scent evaporated into the air. Static roared through her brain, thunderous vibration shook the ground and a thousand scents dazed her. She dragged her body through and fell out onto the floor of an alien world. While the list that follows isn’t exhaustive, it presents nine key things that you can avoid in order to increase your emotional intelligence and performance. They consciously avoid these behaviors because they are tempting and easy to fall into if one isn’t careful. So, I went back to the data to uncover the kinds of things that emotionally intelligent people are careful to avoid in order to keep themselves calm, content, and in control. TalentSmart has tested more than a million people and found that the upper echelons of top performance are filled with people who are high in emotional intelligence (90% of top performers, to be exact). The trick is that managing your emotions is as much about what you won’t do as it is about what you will do. My last post, How Successful People Stay Calm, really struck a nerve (it’s already approaching 1.5 million reads here on LinkedIn). There will be more!Ĭharley’s Ghost includes: The Ex Who Wouldn't Die, The Ex Who Glowed in the Dark, The Ex Who Conned a Psychic, and The Ex Who Saw a Ghost. The others are Murder, Lies and Chocolate The Great Chocolate Scam Chocolate Mousse Attack Fatal Chocolate Obsession Deadly Chocolate Addiction and Wives, Guns and Chocolate. The first book in each series is a USA Today Bestseller.ĭeath by Chocolate is the first of seven books in that series. I have two ongoing cozy mystery series: Death by Chocolate and Charley’s Ghost. It's hard to make listeners sit still for the length of a book! Like my family's tales, my stories are funny, scary, dramatic, romantic, paranormal, magic. Thank goodness for computers so I can write down my stories. That could be due to the fact that everybody in my family has a singing voice like a bullfrog with laryngitis, but they sure could tell stories-ghost stories, funny stories, happy stories, scary stories.įor as long as I can remember I've been a storyteller. When I went to bed at night, instead of a lullaby, I got a story. I grew up in a small rural town in southeastern Oklahoma where our favorite entertainment on summer evenings was to sit outside under the stars and tell stories. Shay took my hand, led the way up to his room, and once that door was closed, we were on each other. Get it out of the way so we could clear our heads and be productive afterward. I just didn’t think it’d be the first thing that happened, though it made sense. “Or we can do something else before studying?”Ī short laugh caught in my throat. A soft chuckle came from him, reverberating against my hand. My finger was still touching his chest, and I flattened my palm there. The close proximity, his hand on my waist, how he was gazing down at me-my ability to breathe was suffering. I tapped his chest, enjoying his firm muscles there. “Or we can study a while and head out for a bite as a study break.” I relaxed, and then he had one last suggestion. He was studying me as he made the suggestion, and seeing the small panic I felt at the thought of seeing his roommates, seeing Linde, he added, “Or we can order in.” That’d be better. “I could make you something in the kitchen.” When had this happened? Where I needed him outside the bedroom, too? It was an unnerving thought, and I shook it off like I did when things got to be too much. Right there, that small touch gave me some extra strength. His hand touched my hip, and I almost closed my eyes. Had he lived to see 2011, the French science fiction writer also would have seen many of his fanciful inventions made real-more or less. Had he lived to see 2011, the French science fiction writer also would have seen many of his fanciful inventions made real-more or less.In perhaps his most famous novel, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Verne's Captain Nemo travels the world's oceans in a giant electric submarine, the Nautilus-the inspiration for the portholed Jules Verne Google doodle.Aside from its organ, formal dining room, and other luxuries, the Nautilus isn't all that different from some modern subs, such as the circa-1964, three-passenger Alvin (pictured), which is powered by lead-acid batteries.Like Alvin, the Nautilus was fully powered by electricity, "which at that time had a kind of magical aura," said Rosalind Williams, a historian of technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).In the book Captain Nemo describes electricity as "a powerful agent, obedient, rapid, easy, which conforms to every use, and reigns supreme on board my vessel."Īs made interactively evident by a retro-futuristic Google doodle, Tuesday would have been the 183rd birthday of Jules Verne. As made interactively evident by a retro-futuristic Google doodle, Tuesday would have been the 183rd birthday of Jules Verne. Perhaps, a year ago, when I was Nora, when I felt like her, this book would have been too much for me. And, I think, Nora’s troubles will look increasingly familiar to an entire generation that just went through a pandemic and had to rethink their soul-sucking job and the depression that both the world we’re living in and the aforementioned job bring. There’s something about sitting in the uncomfortable feelings a book brings out. But it is the kind of book I didn’t – couldn’t read in one sitting. It also doesn’t mean this is a hard book to read, not at all. What can I say? Darker covers often mean darker books, that’s the name of the publishing game.ĭeeper, however, doesn’t mean bad. There’s a depth to this book that I did not expect, used as I am to covers that sort of give away the game. In most ways, however, it isn’t, and I don’t mean that in a bad way. The Bookish Life of Nina Hill meets Younger in a heartfelt debut following a young woman who discovers she’ll have to ditch the “dream job” and write her own story to find her happy ending.Īt first glance, Must Love Books looks like a light-hearted and fluffy read. |