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This is a very light biography of John Donne. Selections from his poetry are sparse as well, though the book is making the case its being relevant to modern readers. The approach made it much more accessible at the risk of reducing the overall impact. It still was interesting, though I would have liked more historical background than was given.
The average human lifespan is absurdly, outrageously, insultingly brief: if you live to 80, you have about four thousand weeks …
For the last twenty years, George Saunders has been teaching a class on the Russian short story to his MFA …
“If you cannot speak truth at a beheading, when can you speak it?”
England, May …
It took me close to a year to finish this one -- I grabbed the Kindle version shortly after getting my Paperwhite. Wolf Hall was one of my first Kindle ebooks back in the day. Like Wolf Hall and Bring Up The Bodies, I thoroughly enjoyed the imagery, the details of England in the reign of Henry VIII; however, it's a long book (over 700 pages) and the cast of characters as usual was hard to track at times, and slowed me down. I also was of course dreading Cromwell's inevitable downfall and execution, which was rapid, although foreshadowed in numerous ways in the previous years before.
Ernest Bramah: Mirror of Kong Ho (2010, Creative Media Partners, LLC)
A lively and amusing set of stories, constructed as a series of letters dealing with the oddities and eccentricities of …
There is nothing more essential to our health and well-being than breathing: take air in, …
Scattershot claims and descriptions intertwined with a not particularly interesting self-experiment in forced mouth-breathing.
Miguel de Unamuno: Don Quixote (2005, Ecco)
Widely regarded as the world's first modern novel, Don Quixote chronicles the famous picaresque adventures of the noble knight-errant Don …
Five New Yorkers must come together in order to defend their city.
Every city has a soul. Some are as …
Mark Epstein: Advice not given (2018)
The Harvard-trained psychologist and author of The Trauma of Everyday Life explores how the traditions of Buddhism and Western psychotherapy …
