The more we are, the richer everything we experience is. And those who want to have deep love in their lives must collect and save for it, and gather honey -Rainer Maria Rilke Please disregard the schmoopy title. This self help book is actually good and it will help you find love. Not because it teaches you a bunch of silly rules or how to change yourself into what men want. No, this book focuses on self improvement for the sake of self improvement. It helps […]
*whisper* I didn’t really care much for this one. *ducks* sorry!
I just didn’t like this book. It started out so slowly and boring; way to absorbed in small details that failed to be relevant to me. Georgie McCool is a television show writer married to Neal, in a relationship that revolves around their children and not much else. I couldn’t care about her ambitions for writing her show. I couldn’t care about her husband. And thusly I really couldn’t care about the way her career was affecting her relationship with her husband. She kept blaming […]
Things do, indeed, fall apart
This was another of the classical books that I felt like I was supposed to love, but never quite did. It was as though the people paraded before my eyes and whether they were loving or killing, it was a dance movement that I as a chair could never grasp. It is the first African book to receive international critical acclaim. Published in 1958 it’s one of those books that seem to be part of a collective culture; the books we hear of but have […]
About a man named Stoner
On the surface this is a simple book about a boy who grows up on a farm and then enters the University and stays there for the rest of his life. But in reality it is about everything that makes us human; the loss, the loves, the battles. It is a sad tale, but with dignity. Written by someone who has traveled to the core of life and suckled at its breast. Stoner is not unhappy despite every good thing that happens to him is […]