📜 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…
📚 Book of the Day (#non-fiction #sociology #selfdevelopment)
📜THE LIGHT WE CARRY📜
by Michelle Obama
❗#1 New York Times bestseller
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➡️ In an inspiring follow-up to her critically acclaimed, #1 bestselling memoir Becoming, former First Lady Michelle Obama shares practical wisdom and powerful strategies for staying hopeful and balanced in today’s highly uncertain world. ---------------------------------------------------------
📗About:
Michelle Obama offers readers a series of fresh stories and insightful reflections on change, challenge, and power, including her belief that when we light up for others, we can illuminate the world around us, discovering deeper truths and new pathways for progress. Drawing from her experiences as a mother, daughter, spouse, friend, and First Lady, she shares the habits and principles she has developed to successfully adapt to change and overcome various obstacles—the earned wisdom that helps her continue to “become.”
📜THE LIGHT WE CARRY📜
by Michelle Obama
❗#1 New York Times bestseller
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➡️ In an inspiring follow-up to her critically acclaimed, #1 bestselling memoir Becoming, former First Lady Michelle Obama shares practical wisdom and powerful strategies for staying hopeful and balanced in today’s highly uncertain world. ---------------------------------------------------------
📗About:
Michelle Obama offers readers a series of fresh stories and insightful reflections on change, challenge, and power, including her belief that when we light up for others, we can illuminate the world around us, discovering deeper truths and new pathways for progress. Drawing from her experiences as a mother, daughter, spouse, friend, and First Lady, she shares the habits and principles she has developed to successfully adapt to change and overcome various obstacles—the earned wisdom that helps her continue to “become.”
📚 Book of the Day (#non-fiction #sociology #biology)
📜BEHAVE📜
by Robert M. Sapolsky
❗Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize
❗One of the Washington Post's 10 Best Books of the Year
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➡️ "Immensely readable, often hilarious...Hands-down one of the best books I’ve read in years. I loved it." —Dina Temple-Raston, The Washington Post ---------------------------------------------------------
📗About:
Behave is one of the most dazzling tours d’horizon of the science of human behavior ever attempted. Moving across a range of disciplines, Sapolsky—a neuroscientist and primatologist—uncovers the hidden story of our actions. Undertaking some of our thorniest questions relating to tribalism and xenophobia, hierarchy and competition, and war and peace, Behave is a towering achievement—a majestic synthesis of cutting-edge research and a heroic exploration of why we ultimately do the things we do . . . for good and for ill.
📜BEHAVE📜
by Robert M. Sapolsky
❗Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize
❗One of the Washington Post's 10 Best Books of the Year
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➡️ "Immensely readable, often hilarious...Hands-down one of the best books I’ve read in years. I loved it." —Dina Temple-Raston, The Washington Post ---------------------------------------------------------
📗About:
Behave is one of the most dazzling tours d’horizon of the science of human behavior ever attempted. Moving across a range of disciplines, Sapolsky—a neuroscientist and primatologist—uncovers the hidden story of our actions. Undertaking some of our thorniest questions relating to tribalism and xenophobia, hierarchy and competition, and war and peace, Behave is a towering achievement—a majestic synthesis of cutting-edge research and a heroic exploration of why we ultimately do the things we do . . . for good and for ill.
📚 Book of the Day (#fiction #classics #comedy)
📜DECLINE AND FALL📜
by Evelyn Waugh
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➡️ the world of the 1920s society ---------------------------------------------------------
📗About:
Expelled from Oxford for indecent behaviour, Paul Pennyfeather is oddly unsurprised to find himself qualifying for the position of schoolmaster at Llanabba Castle. His colleagues are an assortment of misfits, including Prendy (plagued by doubts) and captain Grimes, who is always in the soup (or just plain drunk). Then Sports Day arrives, and with it the delectable Margot Beste-Chetwynde, floating on a scented breeze. As the farce unfolds and the young run riot, no one is safe, least of all Paul. Taking its title from Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Evelyn Waugh's first, funniest novel immediately caught the ear of the public with his account of an ingénu abroad in the decadent confusion of 1920s high society.
📜DECLINE AND FALL📜
by Evelyn Waugh
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➡️ the world of the 1920s society ---------------------------------------------------------
📗About:
Expelled from Oxford for indecent behaviour, Paul Pennyfeather is oddly unsurprised to find himself qualifying for the position of schoolmaster at Llanabba Castle. His colleagues are an assortment of misfits, including Prendy (plagued by doubts) and captain Grimes, who is always in the soup (or just plain drunk). Then Sports Day arrives, and with it the delectable Margot Beste-Chetwynde, floating on a scented breeze. As the farce unfolds and the young run riot, no one is safe, least of all Paul. Taking its title from Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Evelyn Waugh's first, funniest novel immediately caught the ear of the public with his account of an ingénu abroad in the decadent confusion of 1920s high society.
📚 Book of the Day (#fiction #war)
📜THE WAR LIBRARIAN📜
by Addison Armstrong
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➡️ Two women. One secret. A truth worth fighting for. ---------------------------------------------------------
📗About:
1918. Timid and shy Emmaline Balakin lives more in books than her own life. That is, until an envelope crosses her desk at the Dead Letter Office bearing a name from her past, and Emmaline decides to finally embark on an adventure of her own--as a volunteer librarian on the frontlines in France.
1976. Kathleen Carre is eager to prove to herself and to her nana that she deserves her acceptance into the first coed class at the United States Naval Academy. But not everyone wants female midshipmen at the Academy, and after tragedy strikes close to home, Kathleen becomes a target. To protect herself, Kathleen must learn to trust others.
📜THE WAR LIBRARIAN📜
by Addison Armstrong
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➡️ Two women. One secret. A truth worth fighting for. ---------------------------------------------------------
📗About:
1918. Timid and shy Emmaline Balakin lives more in books than her own life. That is, until an envelope crosses her desk at the Dead Letter Office bearing a name from her past, and Emmaline decides to finally embark on an adventure of her own--as a volunteer librarian on the frontlines in France.
1976. Kathleen Carre is eager to prove to herself and to her nana that she deserves her acceptance into the first coed class at the United States Naval Academy. But not everyone wants female midshipmen at the Academy, and after tragedy strikes close to home, Kathleen becomes a target. To protect herself, Kathleen must learn to trust others.
📜 I choose to love you in silence…
For in silence I find no rejection,
I choose to love you in loneliness…
For in loneliness no one owns you but me,
I choose to adore you from a distance…
For distance will shield me from pain,
I choose to kiss you in the wind…
For the wind is gentler than my lips,
I choose to hold you in my dreams…
For in my dreams, you have no end.
➡️ Rumi
For in silence I find no rejection,
I choose to love you in loneliness…
For in loneliness no one owns you but me,
I choose to adore you from a distance…
For distance will shield me from pain,
I choose to kiss you in the wind…
For the wind is gentler than my lips,
I choose to hold you in my dreams…
For in my dreams, you have no end.
➡️ Rumi
📚 Book of the Day (#nonfiction #biology)
📜THE BRAIN THAT CHANGES ITSELF📜
by Norman Doidge, M. D.
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➡️ Brilliant...Doidge has identified a tidal shift in basic science...The implications are monumental.” ---------------------------------------------------------
📗About:
An astonishing new science called "neuroplasticity" is overthrowing the centuries-old notion that the human brain is immutable. In this revolutionary look at the brain, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Norman Doidge, M.D., provides an introduction to both the brilliant scientists championing neuroplasticity and the people whose lives they've transformed. From stroke patients learning to speak again to the remarkable case of a woman born with half a brain that rewired itself to work as a whole, The Brain That Changes Itself will permanently alter the way we look at our brains, human nature, and human potential.
📜THE BRAIN THAT CHANGES ITSELF📜
by Norman Doidge, M. D.
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➡️ Brilliant...Doidge has identified a tidal shift in basic science...The implications are monumental.” ---------------------------------------------------------
📗About:
An astonishing new science called "neuroplasticity" is overthrowing the centuries-old notion that the human brain is immutable. In this revolutionary look at the brain, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Norman Doidge, M.D., provides an introduction to both the brilliant scientists championing neuroplasticity and the people whose lives they've transformed. From stroke patients learning to speak again to the remarkable case of a woman born with half a brain that rewired itself to work as a whole, The Brain That Changes Itself will permanently alter the way we look at our brains, human nature, and human potential.
📚Books on how to DEAL WITH PAIN📚
🔻These books offer a range of perspectives and strategies for dealing with pain, whether it's related to emotional struggles, trauma, or personal growth. They provide tools and insights to help you find strength, healing, and a sense of well-being amidst challenging times.
🔹"When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times" by Pema Chödrön
🔹"The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment" by Eckhart Tolle
🔹"Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha" by Tara Brach
🔹"Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy" by Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant
🔹"The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma" by Bessel van der Kolk
🔹"You Can Heal Your Life" by Louise Hay
🔹"The Wisdom of No Escape: And the Path of Loving-Kindness" by Pema Chödrön
🔹"Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice from Dear Sugar" by Cheryl Strayed
❗detailed description
🔻These books offer a range of perspectives and strategies for dealing with pain, whether it's related to emotional struggles, trauma, or personal growth. They provide tools and insights to help you find strength, healing, and a sense of well-being amidst challenging times.
🔹"When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times" by Pema Chödrön
🔹"The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment" by Eckhart Tolle
🔹"Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha" by Tara Brach
🔹"Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy" by Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant
🔹"The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma" by Bessel van der Kolk
🔹"You Can Heal Your Life" by Louise Hay
🔹"The Wisdom of No Escape: And the Path of Loving-Kindness" by Pema Chödrön
🔹"Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice from Dear Sugar" by Cheryl Strayed
❗detailed description
📚 Book of the Day (#nonfiction #philosophy)
📜BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL📜
by Friedrich Nietzsche
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➡️ Beyond Good and Evil confirmed Nietzsche's position as the towering European philosopher of his age. ---------------------------------------------------------
📗About:
The work dramatically rejects the tradition of Western thought with its notions of truth and God, good and evil. Nietzsche demonstrates that the Christian world is steeped in a false piety and infected with a 'slave morality'. With wit and energy, he turns from this critique to a philosophy that celebrates the present and demands that the individual imposes their own 'will to power' upon the world.
📜BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL📜
by Friedrich Nietzsche
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➡️ Beyond Good and Evil confirmed Nietzsche's position as the towering European philosopher of his age. ---------------------------------------------------------
📗About:
The work dramatically rejects the tradition of Western thought with its notions of truth and God, good and evil. Nietzsche demonstrates that the Christian world is steeped in a false piety and infected with a 'slave morality'. With wit and energy, he turns from this critique to a philosophy that celebrates the present and demands that the individual imposes their own 'will to power' upon the world.
📚 BOOK REVIEW: 'The Lost Symbol' by Dan Brown
📜In Dan Brown's "The Lost Symbol," readers embark on an exhilarating journey through a labyrinth of secrets, conspiracies, and historical enigmas. The novel manages to strike a balance between captivating intrigue and thought-provoking ideas.
From the outset, Brown skillfully weaves a web of tension, drawing readers into a world of cryptic codes, mysterious symbols, and heart-pounding pursuits.
Washington, D.C., serves as both backdrop and character, offering a captivating historical context for the unfolding events.
While the novel's strengths are evident, it's not without its shortcomings. The sheer length of the book can at times feel overwhelming.
Conspiracy theories are a hallmark of Dan Brown's writing, and "The Lost Symbol" embraces them wholeheartedly. However, for some readers, the novel's proliferation of these theories and the amalgamation of pseudo-scientific concepts might prove overwhelming, verging on convolution.
📜In Dan Brown's "The Lost Symbol," readers embark on an exhilarating journey through a labyrinth of secrets, conspiracies, and historical enigmas. The novel manages to strike a balance between captivating intrigue and thought-provoking ideas.
From the outset, Brown skillfully weaves a web of tension, drawing readers into a world of cryptic codes, mysterious symbols, and heart-pounding pursuits.
Washington, D.C., serves as both backdrop and character, offering a captivating historical context for the unfolding events.
While the novel's strengths are evident, it's not without its shortcomings. The sheer length of the book can at times feel overwhelming.
Conspiracy theories are a hallmark of Dan Brown's writing, and "The Lost Symbol" embraces them wholeheartedly. However, for some readers, the novel's proliferation of these theories and the amalgamation of pseudo-scientific concepts might prove overwhelming, verging on convolution.
📚 Book of the Day (#nonfiction #biography)
📜A RIVER IN DARKNESS📜
by Masaji Ishikawa
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➡️ The harrowing true story of one man’s life in—and subsequent escape from—North Korea, one of the world’s most brutal totalitarian regimes. ---------------------------------------------------------
📗About:
Half-Korean, half-Japanese, Masaji Ishikawa has spent his whole life feeling like a man without a country. This feeling only deepened when his family moved from Japan to North Korea when Ishikawa was just thirteen years old.
In this memoir Ishikawa candidly recounts his tumultuous upbringing and the brutal thirty-six years he spent living under a crushing totalitarian regime, as well as the challenges he faced repatriating to Japan after barely escaping North Korea with his life. A River in Darkness is not only a shocking portrait of life inside the country but a testament to the dignity—and indomitable nature—of the human spirit.
📜A RIVER IN DARKNESS📜
by Masaji Ishikawa
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➡️ The harrowing true story of one man’s life in—and subsequent escape from—North Korea, one of the world’s most brutal totalitarian regimes. ---------------------------------------------------------
📗About:
Half-Korean, half-Japanese, Masaji Ishikawa has spent his whole life feeling like a man without a country. This feeling only deepened when his family moved from Japan to North Korea when Ishikawa was just thirteen years old.
In this memoir Ishikawa candidly recounts his tumultuous upbringing and the brutal thirty-six years he spent living under a crushing totalitarian regime, as well as the challenges he faced repatriating to Japan after barely escaping North Korea with his life. A River in Darkness is not only a shocking portrait of life inside the country but a testament to the dignity—and indomitable nature—of the human spirit.