📚 Book of the Day (#nonfiction #selfdevelopment #psychology)
📜THE MOUNTAIN IS YOU📜
by Brianna Wiest
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➡️ Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery. ---------------------------------------------------------
📗About:
This is a book about self-sabotage. Why we do it, when we do it, and how to stop doing it—for good. Coexisting but conflicting needs create self-sabotaging behaviors. This is why we resist efforts to change, often until they feel completely futile. But by extracting crucial insight from our most damaging habits, building emotional intelligence by better understanding our brains and bodies and learning to act as our highest potential future selves, we can step out of our own way and into our potential. To scale our mountains, we actually have to do the deep internal work of excavating trauma, building resilience, and adjusting how we show up for the climb. In the end, it is not the mountain we master, but ourselves.
📜THE MOUNTAIN IS YOU📜
by Brianna Wiest
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➡️ Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery. ---------------------------------------------------------
📗About:
This is a book about self-sabotage. Why we do it, when we do it, and how to stop doing it—for good. Coexisting but conflicting needs create self-sabotaging behaviors. This is why we resist efforts to change, often until they feel completely futile. But by extracting crucial insight from our most damaging habits, building emotional intelligence by better understanding our brains and bodies and learning to act as our highest potential future selves, we can step out of our own way and into our potential. To scale our mountains, we actually have to do the deep internal work of excavating trauma, building resilience, and adjusting how we show up for the climb. In the end, it is not the mountain we master, but ourselves.
📚 Book of the Day (#fiction #mystery)
📜THE POSSIBILITIES📜
by Yael Goldstein-Love
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➡️ A new mother ventures into parallel worlds to find her missing child in this mind-bending novel that turns the joys and anxieties of parenthood into an epic quest, “a powerful page-turner with deep wisdom” (People). ---------------------------------------------------------
📗About:
Hannah is having a bad day. A bad month. A bad year? That feels terrible to admit, since her son Jack was born just eight months ago and she loves him more than anything. But ever since his harrowing birth, she can’t shake the feeling that it could have gone the other way. That her baby might not have made it. Are the strange things Hannah is seeing just new-mom anxiety, or is something truly weird and sinister afoot?
📜THE POSSIBILITIES📜
by Yael Goldstein-Love
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➡️ A new mother ventures into parallel worlds to find her missing child in this mind-bending novel that turns the joys and anxieties of parenthood into an epic quest, “a powerful page-turner with deep wisdom” (People). ---------------------------------------------------------
📗About:
Hannah is having a bad day. A bad month. A bad year? That feels terrible to admit, since her son Jack was born just eight months ago and she loves him more than anything. But ever since his harrowing birth, she can’t shake the feeling that it could have gone the other way. That her baby might not have made it. Are the strange things Hannah is seeing just new-mom anxiety, or is something truly weird and sinister afoot?
📚BOOK REVIEW: Never Let me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
🔹In all honesty, "Never Let Me Go" left me quite dissatisfied. The novel seemed to lack substance and significance, revolving too much around trivial teenage problems that failed to resonate with me. The plot, unfortunately, fell flat and couldn't grasp my attention throughout the reading experience. I had high hopes for the intriguing concept ofpeople being cloned for organ donation , but to my dismay, it remained underdeveloped and didn't add much depth to the story. As I turned the pages, the inconsequential nature of the narrative became more apparent, and I found it difficult to stay engaged. Regrettably, I couldn't even bring myself to finish the book, as it failed to leave a lasting impression or evoke any meaningful emotions.
🔹In all honesty, "Never Let Me Go" left me quite dissatisfied. The novel seemed to lack substance and significance, revolving too much around trivial teenage problems that failed to resonate with me. The plot, unfortunately, fell flat and couldn't grasp my attention throughout the reading experience. I had high hopes for the intriguing concept of
📚 Great JAPANESE novels 📚
🔹"Norwegian Wood" by Haruki Murakami
🔹"Kokoro" by Natsume Soseki
🔹"Snow Country" by Yasunari Kawabata
🔹"Silence" by Shusaku Endo
🔹"The Tale of Genji" by Murasaki Shikibu
🔹"Convenience Store Woman" by Sayaka Murata
🔹"Out" by Natsuo Kirino
🔹"The Devotion of Suspect X" by Keigo Higashino
💎 detailed description
🔹"Norwegian Wood" by Haruki Murakami
🔹"Kokoro" by Natsume Soseki
🔹"Snow Country" by Yasunari Kawabata
🔹"Silence" by Shusaku Endo
🔹"The Tale of Genji" by Murasaki Shikibu
🔹"Convenience Store Woman" by Sayaka Murata
🔹"Out" by Natsuo Kirino
🔹"The Devotion of Suspect X" by Keigo Higashino
💎 detailed description
📚 Book of the Day (#fiction #classics)
📜NAUSEA📜
by Jean-Paul Sartre
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➡️ The best-written and most interesting of Sartre's novels.-- "Atlantic Monthly" ---------------------------------------------------------
📗About:
Nausea is the story of Antoine Roquentin, a French writer who is horrified at his own existence. In impressionistic, diary form he ruthlessly catalogues his every feeling and sensation about the world and people around him.
His thoughts culminate in a pervasive, overpowering feeling of nausea which "spread at the bottom of the viscous puddle, at the bottom of our time, the time of purple suspenders and broken chair seats; it is made of wide, soft instants, spreading at the edge, like an oil stain."
📜NAUSEA📜
by Jean-Paul Sartre
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➡️ The best-written and most interesting of Sartre's novels.-- "Atlantic Monthly" ---------------------------------------------------------
📗About:
Nausea is the story of Antoine Roquentin, a French writer who is horrified at his own existence. In impressionistic, diary form he ruthlessly catalogues his every feeling and sensation about the world and people around him.
His thoughts culminate in a pervasive, overpowering feeling of nausea which "spread at the bottom of the viscous puddle, at the bottom of our time, the time of purple suspenders and broken chair seats; it is made of wide, soft instants, spreading at the edge, like an oil stain."
📚 Book of the Day (#nonfiction #politics #india)
📜ANNIHILATION OF CASTE📜
by B. R. Ambedkar
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➡️ What the Communist Manifesto is to the capitalist world, Annihilation of Caste is to India.” —Anand Teltumbde, author of The Persistence of Caste ---------------------------------------------------------
📗About:
B.R. Ambedkar’s Annihilation of Caste is one of the most important, yet neglected, works of political writing from India. Written in 1936, it is an audacious denunciation of Hinduism and its caste system. Ambedkar – a figure like W.E.B. Du Bois – offers a scholarly critique of Hindu scriptures, scriptures that sanction a rigidly hierarchical and iniquitous social system. The world’s best-known Hindu, Mahatma Gandhi, responded publicly to the provocation. The hatchet was never buried.
📜ANNIHILATION OF CASTE📜
by B. R. Ambedkar
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➡️ What the Communist Manifesto is to the capitalist world, Annihilation of Caste is to India.” —Anand Teltumbde, author of The Persistence of Caste ---------------------------------------------------------
📗About:
B.R. Ambedkar’s Annihilation of Caste is one of the most important, yet neglected, works of political writing from India. Written in 1936, it is an audacious denunciation of Hinduism and its caste system. Ambedkar – a figure like W.E.B. Du Bois – offers a scholarly critique of Hindu scriptures, scriptures that sanction a rigidly hierarchical and iniquitous social system. The world’s best-known Hindu, Mahatma Gandhi, responded publicly to the provocation. The hatchet was never buried.
📚 Book of the Day (#fiction #horror)
📜HOW TO SELL A HAUNTED HOUSE📜
by Grady Hendrix
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➡️ Grady Hendrix takes on the haunted house in a thrilling new novel that explores the way your past—and your family—can haunt you like nothing else. ---------------------------------------------------------
📗About:
When Louise finds out her parents have died, she dreads going home. She doesn’t want to leave her daughter with her ex and fly to Charleston. She doesn’t want to deal with her family home, stuffed to the rafters with the remnants of her father’s academic career and her mother’s lifelong obsession with puppets and dolls.
Unfortunately, she’ll need his help to get the house ready for sale because it’ll take more than some new paint on the walls and clearing out a lifetime of memories to get this place on the market.
But some houses don’t want to be sold, and their home has other plans for both of them…
📜HOW TO SELL A HAUNTED HOUSE📜
by Grady Hendrix
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➡️ Grady Hendrix takes on the haunted house in a thrilling new novel that explores the way your past—and your family—can haunt you like nothing else. ---------------------------------------------------------
📗About:
When Louise finds out her parents have died, she dreads going home. She doesn’t want to leave her daughter with her ex and fly to Charleston. She doesn’t want to deal with her family home, stuffed to the rafters with the remnants of her father’s academic career and her mother’s lifelong obsession with puppets and dolls.
Unfortunately, she’ll need his help to get the house ready for sale because it’ll take more than some new paint on the walls and clearing out a lifetime of memories to get this place on the market.
But some houses don’t want to be sold, and their home has other plans for both of them…
📚 Book of the Day (#fiction #crime)
📜THE RIVER'S EDGE📜
by Joy Ellis
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➡️ A series of gruesome murders on the Lincolnshire fens. An old enemy from the past. A deadly game of cat and mouse. ---------------------------------------------------------
📗About:
The quiet market town of Saltern-le-Fen is buzzing with excitement. A film crew arrive to shoot a new TV police drama, Fen Division Five. But Detective Jackman receives a disturbing tip-off that something is wrong.
Meanwhile Detective Marie Evans is looking forward to moving into her dream home. But there’s no time to celebrate. The naked body of a young man is found at the river’s edge. He’s been strangled, his skin massaged with expensive oil.
Two days later, another young man is discovered in a lake.
At the same time, an arch enemy from the past emerges.
As they hunt a brutal killer, Jackman and Evans are themselves hunted in a deadly game of cat and mouse — and the stakes could not be higher.
📜THE RIVER'S EDGE📜
by Joy Ellis
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➡️ A series of gruesome murders on the Lincolnshire fens. An old enemy from the past. A deadly game of cat and mouse. ---------------------------------------------------------
📗About:
The quiet market town of Saltern-le-Fen is buzzing with excitement. A film crew arrive to shoot a new TV police drama, Fen Division Five. But Detective Jackman receives a disturbing tip-off that something is wrong.
Meanwhile Detective Marie Evans is looking forward to moving into her dream home. But there’s no time to celebrate. The naked body of a young man is found at the river’s edge. He’s been strangled, his skin massaged with expensive oil.
Two days later, another young man is discovered in a lake.
At the same time, an arch enemy from the past emerges.
As they hunt a brutal killer, Jackman and Evans are themselves hunted in a deadly game of cat and mouse — and the stakes could not be higher.
📚 New York Times Latest Bestsellers 📚
01. FOURTH WING by Rebecca Yarros
02. TOO LATE by Colleen Hoover
03. OBSESSED by James Patterson and James O. Born
04. IT ENDS WITH US by Colleen Hoover
05. IT STARTS WITH US by Colleen Hoover
06. LESSONS IN CHEMISTRY by Bonnie Garmus
07. HAPPY PLACE by Emily Henry
08. VERITY by Colleen Hoover
09. THE FIVE-STAR WEEKEND by Elin Hilderbrand
10. THE COVENANT OF WATER by Abraham Verghese
11. THE HOUSEMAID by Freida McFadden
12. ICEBREAKER by Hannah Grace
13. THE SEVEN HUSBANDS OF EVELYN HUGO by Taylor Jenkins Reid
14. UGLY LOVE by Colleen Hoover
15. TWISTED LOVE by Ana Huang
01. FOURTH WING by Rebecca Yarros
02. TOO LATE by Colleen Hoover
03. OBSESSED by James Patterson and James O. Born
04. IT ENDS WITH US by Colleen Hoover
05. IT STARTS WITH US by Colleen Hoover
06. LESSONS IN CHEMISTRY by Bonnie Garmus
07. HAPPY PLACE by Emily Henry
08. VERITY by Colleen Hoover
09. THE FIVE-STAR WEEKEND by Elin Hilderbrand
10. THE COVENANT OF WATER by Abraham Verghese
11. THE HOUSEMAID by Freida McFadden
12. ICEBREAKER by Hannah Grace
13. THE SEVEN HUSBANDS OF EVELYN HUGO by Taylor Jenkins Reid
14. UGLY LOVE by Colleen Hoover
15. TWISTED LOVE by Ana Huang
📚 Book of the Day (#fiction #classics)
📜BELOVED📜
by Toni Morrison
❗Pulitzer Prize
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➡️ Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Toni Morrison’s Beloved is a spellbinding and dazzlingly innovative portrait of a woman haunted by the past. ---------------------------------------------------------
📗About:
Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She has borne the unthinkable and not gone mad, yet she is still held captive by memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. Meanwhile Sethe’s house has long been troubled by the angry ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved.
Sethe works at beating back the past, but it makes itself heard and felt incessantly in her memory and in the lives of those around her. When a mysterious teenage girl arrives, calling herself Beloved, Sethe’s terrible secret explodes into the present.
📜BELOVED📜
by Toni Morrison
❗Pulitzer Prize
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➡️ Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Toni Morrison’s Beloved is a spellbinding and dazzlingly innovative portrait of a woman haunted by the past. ---------------------------------------------------------
📗About:
Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She has borne the unthinkable and not gone mad, yet she is still held captive by memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. Meanwhile Sethe’s house has long been troubled by the angry ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved.
Sethe works at beating back the past, but it makes itself heard and felt incessantly in her memory and in the lives of those around her. When a mysterious teenage girl arrives, calling herself Beloved, Sethe’s terrible secret explodes into the present.
📚 Great JAPANESE novels 📚
🔹"Norwegian Wood" by Haruki Murakami
🔹"Kokoro" by Natsume Soseki
🔹"Snow Country" by Yasunari Kawabata
🔹"Silence" by Shusaku Endo
🔹"The Tale of Genji" by Murasaki Shikibu
🔹"Convenience Store Woman" by Sayaka Murata
🔹"Out" by Natsuo Kirino
🔹"The Devotion of Suspect X" by Keigo Higashino
💎 detailed description
🔹"Norwegian Wood" by Haruki Murakami
🔹"Kokoro" by Natsume Soseki
🔹"Snow Country" by Yasunari Kawabata
🔹"Silence" by Shusaku Endo
🔹"The Tale of Genji" by Murasaki Shikibu
🔹"Convenience Store Woman" by Sayaka Murata
🔹"Out" by Natsuo Kirino
🔹"The Devotion of Suspect X" by Keigo Higashino
💎 detailed description
📜 When he shall die,
Take him and cut him out in little stars,
And he will make the face of heaven so fine
That all the world will be in love with night
And pay no worship to the garish sun.
➡️ William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
Take him and cut him out in little stars,
And he will make the face of heaven so fine
That all the world will be in love with night
And pay no worship to the garish sun.
➡️ William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
📚 Book of the Day (#fiction #crime #horror)
📜MIDNIGHT📜
by Dean Koontz
❗#1 national bestseller
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➡️ The No.1 bestselling classic from Dean Koontz, the master of chilling suspense, that will thrill fans of Stephen King and the Odd Thomas series. ---------------------------------------------------------
📗About:
A wealthy tech entrepreneur, intending to create superhumans by infecting them with nanotech to assist their physical and mental abilities, picks a California town as his secret pilot project, but things go terribly wrong. The citizens of Moonlight Cove, California, are changing, growing numbers of residents harbor a secret so dark it is sure to cost even more lives. Some are losing touch with their deepest emotions. Others are surrendering to their wildest urges. And the few who remain unchanged are absolutely terrified (if not brutally murdered in the dead of night). Survivors face a terror beyond the darkest realms of human nature.
📜MIDNIGHT📜
by Dean Koontz
❗#1 national bestseller
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➡️ The No.1 bestselling classic from Dean Koontz, the master of chilling suspense, that will thrill fans of Stephen King and the Odd Thomas series. ---------------------------------------------------------
📗About:
A wealthy tech entrepreneur, intending to create superhumans by infecting them with nanotech to assist their physical and mental abilities, picks a California town as his secret pilot project, but things go terribly wrong. The citizens of Moonlight Cove, California, are changing, growing numbers of residents harbor a secret so dark it is sure to cost even more lives. Some are losing touch with their deepest emotions. Others are surrendering to their wildest urges. And the few who remain unchanged are absolutely terrified (if not brutally murdered in the dead of night). Survivors face a terror beyond the darkest realms of human nature.
📚 Book of the Day (#nonfiction #selfdevelopment #spiritual #comedy)
📜HOW TO BE PERFECT📜
by Michael Schur
❗from the creator of the Good Place series
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➡️ From the creator of The Good Place and the cocreator of Parks and Recreation, a hilarious, thought-provoking guide to living an ethical life, drawing on 2,500 years of deep thinking from around the world. ---------------------------------------------------------
📗About:
Most people think of themselves as “good,” but it’s not always easy to determine what’s “good” or “bad”—especially in a world filled with complicated choices and pitfalls and booby traps and bad advice. Fortunately, many smart philosophers have been pondering this conundrum for millennia and they have guidance for us. With bright wit and deep insight, How to Be Perfect explains concepts like deontology, utilitarianism, existentialism, ubuntu, and more so we can sound cool at parties and become better people.
📜HOW TO BE PERFECT📜
by Michael Schur
❗from the creator of the Good Place series
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➡️ From the creator of The Good Place and the cocreator of Parks and Recreation, a hilarious, thought-provoking guide to living an ethical life, drawing on 2,500 years of deep thinking from around the world. ---------------------------------------------------------
📗About:
Most people think of themselves as “good,” but it’s not always easy to determine what’s “good” or “bad”—especially in a world filled with complicated choices and pitfalls and booby traps and bad advice. Fortunately, many smart philosophers have been pondering this conundrum for millennia and they have guidance for us. With bright wit and deep insight, How to Be Perfect explains concepts like deontology, utilitarianism, existentialism, ubuntu, and more so we can sound cool at parties and become better people.
📚 Books for those who STRUGGLE 📚
❗These books acknowledge the depth of loneliness and offer empathy, reminding readers that they are not alone in their feelings. They provide a sense of connection and understanding, encouraging those who feel lonely to find solace and hope in the stories of others.
🔹"When Breath Becomes Air" by Paul Kalanithi
🔹"The Lonely City
🔹"The Year of Magical Thinking" by Joan Didion
🔹"The Guest Cat" by Takashi Hiraide
🔹"The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry" by Rachel Joyce
🔹"The Humans" by Matt Haig
🔹"The Still Point of the Turning World" by Emily Rapp
🔹"The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
❗ detailed description
❗These books acknowledge the depth of loneliness and offer empathy, reminding readers that they are not alone in their feelings. They provide a sense of connection and understanding, encouraging those who feel lonely to find solace and hope in the stories of others.
🔹"When Breath Becomes Air" by Paul Kalanithi
🔹"The Lonely City
🔹"The Year of Magical Thinking" by Joan Didion
🔹"The Guest Cat" by Takashi Hiraide
🔹"The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry" by Rachel Joyce
🔹"The Humans" by Matt Haig
🔹"The Still Point of the Turning World" by Emily Rapp
🔹"The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
❗ detailed description
📚 Book of the Day (#fiction #drama #dystopia)
📜THE HANDMAID'S TALE📜
by Margaret Atwood
❗now a major TV series
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➡️ "The Handmaid's Tale deserves the highest praise." —San Francisco Chronicle ---------------------------------------------------------
📗About:
Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She may leave the home of the Commander and his wife once a day to walk to food markets whose signs are now pictures instead of words because women are no longer allowed to read. She must lie on her back once a month and pray that the Commander makes her pregnant, because in an age of declining births, Offred and the other Handmaids are valued only if their ovaries are viable. Offred can remember the years before, when she lived and made love with her husband, Luke; when she played with and protected her daughter; when she had a job, money of her own, and access to knowledge. But all of that is gone now…
📜THE HANDMAID'S TALE📜
by Margaret Atwood
❗now a major TV series
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➡️ "The Handmaid's Tale deserves the highest praise." —San Francisco Chronicle ---------------------------------------------------------
📗About:
Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She may leave the home of the Commander and his wife once a day to walk to food markets whose signs are now pictures instead of words because women are no longer allowed to read. She must lie on her back once a month and pray that the Commander makes her pregnant, because in an age of declining births, Offred and the other Handmaids are valued only if their ovaries are viable. Offred can remember the years before, when she lived and made love with her husband, Luke; when she played with and protected her daughter; when she had a job, money of her own, and access to knowledge. But all of that is gone now…