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The Book of Disquiet

progress:  Jun 27, 2012 10:25am

 

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Wild Children by Ales Kot
Not quite sure what to think about this one. It warrants multiple reads, but the "point" of it all remains nebulous. But perhaps that is intentional. Try reading some interviews the author gave while promoting this book; the more 'foot notes' I found...more
Swamplandia! by Karen Russell
Swamplandia!
by Karen Russell (Goodreads Author)
read in April, 2013
What an interesting tale! Russell's details paint a very rich picture of an unconventional family struggling through very universal heartbreaks. The book is at times sad, funny, creepy, and tender. Even when you think you know what will happen next,...more
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What the Family Needed by Steven Amsterdam
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The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
The Selfish Gene
by Richard Dawkins (Goodreads Author)
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The Medea Hypothesis by Peter D. Ward
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Mastermind by Maria Konnikova
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Regenesis by George M. Church
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Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas R. Hofstadter
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Malcolm by James Purdy
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Rumi
“Anyone who knows me, should learn to know me again;
For I am like the Moon,
you will see me with new face everyday.”
Rumi

Jeanette Winterson
“I have noticed that doing the sensible thing is only a good idea when the decision is quite small. For the life-changing things, you must risk it.”
Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

Fernando Pessoa
“But my sadness is comforting
Because it’s right and natural
And because it’s what the soul should feel
When it already thinks it exists
And the hand pick flowers
And the soul takes no notice.”
Fernando Pessoa

Karl Lagerfeld
“I’m very much down to earth, just not this earth.”
Karl Lagerfeld

Fernando Pessoa
“Life is an experimental journey undertaken involuntarily. It is a journey of the spirit through the material world and, since it is the spirit that travels, it is the spirit that is experienced. That is why there exist contemplative souls who have lived more intensely, more widely, more tumultuously than others who have lived their lives purely externally. The end result is what matters. What one felt was what one experienced. One retires to bed as wearily from having dreamed as from having done hard physical labor. One never lives so intensely as when one has been thinking hard.”
Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

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