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📚 Book of the Day (fiction)
📜PALE FIRE📜
by Vladimir Nabokov
❗One of the best books of the XX century
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➡️ Nabokov's darkly witty, richly inventive masterpiece is a suspenseful whodunit, a story of one-upmanship and dubious penmanship, and a glorious literary conundrum.
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📗About:
The American poet John Shade is dead. His last poem, 'Pale Fire', is put into a book, together with a preface, a lengthy commentary and notes by Shade's editor, Charles Kinbote. Known on campus as the 'Great Beaver', Kinbote is haughty, inquisitive, intolerant, but is he also mad, bad - and even dangerous? As his wildly eccentric annotations slide into the personal and the fantastical, Kinbote reveals perhaps more than he should be.
🇷🇺 Американский поэт Джон Шейд умер. Его последнее стихотворение, "Бледный огонь", включено в книгу вместе с предисловием, длинным комментарием и примечаниями редактора Шейда, Чарльза Кинбота. Известный на кампусе как "Великий Бобр", Кинбот высокомерен, любопытен, нетерпим, но может ли он также быть безумен, плох - и даже опасен? По мере того как его диковинные аннотации скатываются в личное и фантастическое, Кинбот, возможно, раскрывает больше, чем следовало бы.
📜PALE FIRE📜
by Vladimir Nabokov
❗One of the best books of the XX century
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➡️ Nabokov's darkly witty, richly inventive masterpiece is a suspenseful whodunit, a story of one-upmanship and dubious penmanship, and a glorious literary conundrum.
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📗About:
The American poet John Shade is dead. His last poem, 'Pale Fire', is put into a book, together with a preface, a lengthy commentary and notes by Shade's editor, Charles Kinbote. Known on campus as the 'Great Beaver', Kinbote is haughty, inquisitive, intolerant, but is he also mad, bad - and even dangerous? As his wildly eccentric annotations slide into the personal and the fantastical, Kinbote reveals perhaps more than he should be.
🇷🇺 Американский поэт Джон Шейд умер. Его последнее стихотворение, "Бледный огонь", включено в книгу вместе с предисловием, длинным комментарием и примечаниями редактора Шейда, Чарльза Кинбота. Известный на кампусе как "Великий Бобр", Кинбот высокомерен, любопытен, нетерпим, но может ли он также быть безумен, плох - и даже опасен? По мере того как его диковинные аннотации скатываются в личное и фантастическое, Кинбот, возможно, раскрывает больше, чем следовало бы.
📚 Book of the Day (#nonfiction #spiritual)
📜MIND FULL TO MINDFUL📜
by Om Swami
❗4.7⭐ Amazon
❗4.4⭐ Goodreads
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➡️ Om Swami is a mystic who lives in the Himalayan foothills. ---------------------------------------------------------
📗About:
Many of us struggle to remain calm during the day or to fall asleep at night. Our restless, treacherous minds make us feel good one moment and terrible another. From where do negativity and anguish engulf us and how do we go about being serene and peaceful? Zen shows us the art of attaining that inner quietude without rituals or dogma. Driving to work, washing the dishes, every act could easily be meditation. Based on the original Zen teachings, this beautiful book offers a life-changing perspective on life itself. Bestselling author of many transformational books, Om Swami shares with you the art of happiness with plenty of humour, stories and wisdom as he takes you on a journey from being mind full to mindful.
📜MIND FULL TO MINDFUL📜
by Om Swami
❗4.7⭐ Amazon
❗4.4⭐ Goodreads
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➡️ Om Swami is a mystic who lives in the Himalayan foothills. ---------------------------------------------------------
📗About:
Many of us struggle to remain calm during the day or to fall asleep at night. Our restless, treacherous minds make us feel good one moment and terrible another. From where do negativity and anguish engulf us and how do we go about being serene and peaceful? Zen shows us the art of attaining that inner quietude without rituals or dogma. Driving to work, washing the dishes, every act could easily be meditation. Based on the original Zen teachings, this beautiful book offers a life-changing perspective on life itself. Bestselling author of many transformational books, Om Swami shares with you the art of happiness with plenty of humour, stories and wisdom as he takes you on a journey from being mind full to mindful.
📚 Best books of the XIX century 📚
📗"Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen (1813)
📗"Moby-Dick" by Herman Melville (1851)
📗"Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Bronte (1847)
📗"Wuthering Heights" by Emily Bronte (1847)
📗"Crime and Punishment" by Fyodor Dostoevsky (1866)
📗"War and Peace" by Leo Tolstoy (1869)
📗"Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley (1818)
📗"Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens (1861)
📗"Les Misérables" by Victor Hugo (1862)
📗"Anna Karenina" by Leo Tolstoy (1877)
📗"Oliver Twist" by Charles Dickens (1838)
📗"Madame Bovary" by Gustave Flaubert (1856)
📗"A Tale of Two Cities" by Charles Dickens (1859)
📗"The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde (1890)
📗"Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott (1868)
📗"Walden" by Henry David Thoreau (1854)
📗"The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1850)
📗"The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain (1884)
📗"Sense and Sensibility" by Jane Austen (1811)
📗"The Brothers Karamazov" by Fyodor Dostoevsky (1880)
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📗"Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen (1813)
📗"Moby-Dick" by Herman Melville (1851)
📗"Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Bronte (1847)
📗"Wuthering Heights" by Emily Bronte (1847)
📗"Crime and Punishment" by Fyodor Dostoevsky (1866)
📗"War and Peace" by Leo Tolstoy (1869)
📗"Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley (1818)
📗"Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens (1861)
📗"Les Misérables" by Victor Hugo (1862)
📗"Anna Karenina" by Leo Tolstoy (1877)
📗"Oliver Twist" by Charles Dickens (1838)
📗"Madame Bovary" by Gustave Flaubert (1856)
📗"A Tale of Two Cities" by Charles Dickens (1859)
📗"The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde (1890)
📗"Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott (1868)
📗"Walden" by Henry David Thoreau (1854)
📗"The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1850)
📗"The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain (1884)
📗"Sense and Sensibility" by Jane Austen (1811)
📗"The Brothers Karamazov" by Fyodor Dostoevsky (1880)
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📚 Book of the Day (#fiction #historical)
📖 THE MUSEUM OF EXTRAORDINARY THINGS 📖
by Alice Hoffman
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🎪 Увлекательное путешествие в мир чудес и тайн.
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📗 About (Описание):
"The Museum of Extraordinary Things" (Музей необыкновенных вещей) Алис Хоффман - это захватывающая история, разворачивающаяся в Нью-Йорке начала XX века. Роман погружает читателя в мир феноменов и фрикшоу, где сливаются реальность и фантазия. Это история о любви, тайнах и поиске собственного места в мире.
📖 THE MUSEUM OF EXTRAORDINARY THINGS 📖
by Alice Hoffman
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🎪 Увлекательное путешествие в мир чудес и тайн.
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📗 About (Описание):
"The Museum of Extraordinary Things" (Музей необыкновенных вещей) Алис Хоффман - это захватывающая история, разворачивающаяся в Нью-Йорке начала XX века. Роман погружает читателя в мир феноменов и фрикшоу, где сливаются реальность и фантазия. Это история о любви, тайнах и поиске собственного места в мире.
📚 Book of the Day (#fiction #crime)
📜THE RIVER WE REMEMBER📜
by William Kent Krueger
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➡️ From the New York Times bestselling author of This Tender Land.
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In 1958, a small Minnesota town is rocked by the murder of its most powerful citizen, pouring fresh fuel on old grievances in this dazzling standalone novel.
📜THE RIVER WE REMEMBER📜
by William Kent Krueger
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➡️ From the New York Times bestselling author of This Tender Land.
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In 1958, a small Minnesota town is rocked by the murder of its most powerful citizen, pouring fresh fuel on old grievances in this dazzling standalone novel.
📚 Book of the Day (#fiction #fantasy)
📜OUTLANDER📜
by Diana Gabaldon
❗10 volumes
❗#1 New York Times bestseller
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➡️ One of the top ten best-loved novels in America, as seen on PBS’s The Great American Read! ---------------------------------------------------------
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The year is 1945. Claire Randall, a former combat nurse, is just back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon when she walks through a standing stone. Suddenly she is a Sassenach—an “outlander”—in a Scotland torn by war and raiding border clans in the year of Our Lord...1743.
Hurled back in time by forces she cannot understand, Claire is catapulted into the intrigues of lairds and spies that may threaten her life, and shatter her heart. For here James Fraser, a gallant young Scots warrior, shows her a love so absolute that Claire becomes a woman torn between fidelity and desire—and between two vastly different men in two irreconcilable lives.
📜OUTLANDER📜
by Diana Gabaldon
❗10 volumes
❗#1 New York Times bestseller
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➡️ One of the top ten best-loved novels in America, as seen on PBS’s The Great American Read! ---------------------------------------------------------
📗About:
The year is 1945. Claire Randall, a former combat nurse, is just back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon when she walks through a standing stone. Suddenly she is a Sassenach—an “outlander”—in a Scotland torn by war and raiding border clans in the year of Our Lord...1743.
Hurled back in time by forces she cannot understand, Claire is catapulted into the intrigues of lairds and spies that may threaten her life, and shatter her heart. For here James Fraser, a gallant young Scots warrior, shows her a love so absolute that Claire becomes a woman torn between fidelity and desire—and between two vastly different men in two irreconcilable lives.
📚 Book of the Day (fiction)
📜THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING📜
by Milan Kundera
❗️Amazon rating ⭐️4.5/5
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➡️ “Far more than a conventional novel. It is a meditation on life, on the erotic, on the nature of men and women and love . . . full of telling details, truths large and small, to which just about every reader will respond.” — People
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📗About:
In The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera tells the story of a young woman in love with a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing and one of his mistresses and her humbly faithful lover. This magnificent novel juxtaposes geographically distant places, brilliant and playful reflections, and a variety of styles, to take its place as perhaps the major achievement of one of the world’s truly great writers.
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В "Невыносимой легкости бытия" Милан Кундера рассказывает историю молодой женщины, влюбленной в мужчину, разрывающегося между своей любовью к ней и его неисправимым склонным к женщинам поведением, и одной из его любовниц с ее скромно верным любовником. Этот великолепный роман ставит на одной плоскости географически удаленные места, блестящие и игривые размышления и разнообразные стили, чтобы занять свое место, возможно, как главное достижение одного из по-настоящему великих писателей мира.
📜THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING📜
by Milan Kundera
❗️Amazon rating ⭐️4.5/5
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➡️ “Far more than a conventional novel. It is a meditation on life, on the erotic, on the nature of men and women and love . . . full of telling details, truths large and small, to which just about every reader will respond.” — People
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📗About:
In The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera tells the story of a young woman in love with a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing and one of his mistresses and her humbly faithful lover. This magnificent novel juxtaposes geographically distant places, brilliant and playful reflections, and a variety of styles, to take its place as perhaps the major achievement of one of the world’s truly great writers.
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В "Невыносимой легкости бытия" Милан Кундера рассказывает историю молодой женщины, влюбленной в мужчину, разрывающегося между своей любовью к ней и его неисправимым склонным к женщинам поведением, и одной из его любовниц с ее скромно верным любовником. Этот великолепный роман ставит на одной плоскости географически удаленные места, блестящие и игривые размышления и разнообразные стили, чтобы занять свое место, возможно, как главное достижение одного из по-настоящему великих писателей мира.
📚 Best Books that celebrate the power of MUSIC
1. "Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain" by Oliver Sacks
2. "The Music Shop" by Rachel Joyce
3. "Bel Canto" by Ann Patchett
4. "The Song of Achilles" by Madeline Miller
5. "This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession" by Daniel J. Levitin
6. "A Visit from the Goon Squad" by Jennifer Egan
7. "The Chimes" by Anna Smaill
8. "Just Kids" by Patti Smith
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1. "Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain" by Oliver Sacks
2. "The Music Shop" by Rachel Joyce
3. "Bel Canto" by Ann Patchett
4. "The Song of Achilles" by Madeline Miller
5. "This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession" by Daniel J. Levitin
6. "A Visit from the Goon Squad" by Jennifer Egan
7. "The Chimes" by Anna Smaill
8. "Just Kids" by Patti Smith
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📚Best Books about DREAMS and the SUBCONSCIOUS
1. "The Book of Lost Things" by John Connolly
2. "Kafka on the Shore" by Haruki Murakami
3. "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
4. "The Ocean at the End of the Lane" by Neil Gaiman
5. "The Strange Library" by Haruki Murakami
6. "House of Leaves" by Mark Z. Danielewski
7. "The Bone Clocks" by David Mitchell
8. "The Third Policeman" by Flann O'Brien
1. "The Book of Lost Things" by John Connolly
2. "Kafka on the Shore" by Haruki Murakami
3. "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
4. "The Ocean at the End of the Lane" by Neil Gaiman
5. "The Strange Library" by Haruki Murakami
6. "House of Leaves" by Mark Z. Danielewski
7. "The Bone Clocks" by David Mitchell
8. "The Third Policeman" by Flann O'Brien
📚 Book of the Day (#nonfiction #selfdevelopment)
📜DARING GREATLY📜
by Brene Brown
❗️more than 2 mln copies sold
❗️1# New York Times bestseller
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➡️ Daring Greatly is a practice and a powerful new vision for letting ourselves be seen.
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📗About:
Every day we experience the uncertainty, risks, and emotional exposure that define what it means to be vulnerable or to dare greatly. Based on twelve years of pioneering research, Brené Brown PhD, MSW, dispels the cultural myth that vulnerability is weakness and argues that it is, in truth, our most accurate measure of courage.
Brown explains how vulnerability is both the core of difficult emotions like fear, grief, and disappointment, and the birthplace of love, belonging, joy, empathy, innovation, and creativity. She writes: “When we shut ourselves off from vulnerability, we distance ourselves from the experiences that bring purpose and meaning to our lives."
Каждый день мы сталкиваемся с неопределенностью, риском и эмоциональным воздействием, которые определяют, что значит быть уязвимым или отваживаться на многое. Основываясь на двенадцатилетних новаторских исследованиях, Брене Браун, доктор философии, МСВ, развеивает культурный миф о том, что уязвимость - это слабость, и утверждает, что на самом деле она является самым точным мерилом нашей смелости.
Браун объясняет, что уязвимость - это одновременно сердцевина таких сложных эмоций, как страх, горе и разочарование, и место рождения любви, принадлежности, радости, эмпатии, инноваций и творчества. Он пишет: "Когда мы отгораживаемся от уязвимости, мы отдаляемся от опыта, который привносит в нашу жизнь цель и смысл".
📜DARING GREATLY📜
by Brene Brown
❗️more than 2 mln copies sold
❗️1# New York Times bestseller
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➡️ Daring Greatly is a practice and a powerful new vision for letting ourselves be seen.
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📗About:
Every day we experience the uncertainty, risks, and emotional exposure that define what it means to be vulnerable or to dare greatly. Based on twelve years of pioneering research, Brené Brown PhD, MSW, dispels the cultural myth that vulnerability is weakness and argues that it is, in truth, our most accurate measure of courage.
Brown explains how vulnerability is both the core of difficult emotions like fear, grief, and disappointment, and the birthplace of love, belonging, joy, empathy, innovation, and creativity. She writes: “When we shut ourselves off from vulnerability, we distance ourselves from the experiences that bring purpose and meaning to our lives."
Каждый день мы сталкиваемся с неопределенностью, риском и эмоциональным воздействием, которые определяют, что значит быть уязвимым или отваживаться на многое. Основываясь на двенадцатилетних новаторских исследованиях, Брене Браун, доктор философии, МСВ, развеивает культурный миф о том, что уязвимость - это слабость, и утверждает, что на самом деле она является самым точным мерилом нашей смелости.
Браун объясняет, что уязвимость - это одновременно сердцевина таких сложных эмоций, как страх, горе и разочарование, и место рождения любви, принадлежности, радости, эмпатии, инноваций и творчества. Он пишет: "Когда мы отгораживаемся от уязвимости, мы отдаляемся от опыта, который привносит в нашу жизнь цель и смысл".
На первый взгляд Уве — самый угрюмый человек на свете. Он, как и многие из нас, полагает, что его окружают преимущественно идиоты — соседи, которые неправильно паркуют свои машины; продавцы в магазине, говорящие на птичьем языке; бюрократы, портящие жизнь нормальным людям.
Но у угрюмого ворчливого педанта — большое доброе сердце. И когда молодая семья новых соседей случайно повреждает его почтовый ящик, это становится началом невероятно трогательной истории об утраченной любви, неожиданной дружбе, бездомных котах и древнем искусстве сдавать назад на автомобиле с прицепом.
Истории о том, как сильно жизнь одного человека может повлиять на жизни многих других.
Но у угрюмого ворчливого педанта — большое доброе сердце. И когда молодая семья новых соседей случайно повреждает его почтовый ящик, это становится началом невероятно трогательной истории об утраченной любви, неожиданной дружбе, бездомных котах и древнем искусстве сдавать назад на автомобиле с прицепом.
Истории о том, как сильно жизнь одного человека может повлиять на жизни многих других.