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[Now Reading] Ransom Riggs - Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

10 Mar 2021 1 minute read 0 comments ervin-lemark

Published in 2011, this book by Ransom Riggs started an avalanche visible in a series of books featuring the adventures of Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children. The books and the fame surrounding them even sprouted a movie in 2016, directed by Tim Bur...

Tuesdays With Morrie

11 Feb 2021 1 minute read 0 comments EsmaSid

A great diegesis depicting a true relation between teacher and a student, both of them found a special person in each other with an extraordinary bonding. Learning and seeking knowledge, anecdote of teacher who wants to see his pupil successful for l...

12 Rules For Monk Mode #5: Play By The Rules

6 Feb 2021 11 minute read 3 comments Moon Base MGTOW

This is the fifth of a 12-part series remixing Jordan Peterson’s book 12 Rules For Life, one chapter a week to coincide with the 12 weeks remaining for my one year celibacy vow. --- We can argue all we like, but the fact is we have new rules in our s...

12 Rules of Monk Mode #4: See With New Eyes

1 Feb 2021 15 minute read 2 comments Moon Base MGTOW

This is the fourth of a 12-part series remixing Jordan Peterson’s book 12 Rules For Life, one chapter a week to coincide with the 12 weeks remaining for my one year celibacy vow.   “When we are very young, we are neither individual nor informed. We...

Albert Camus - "The Plague" Book review

3 Jan 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Cryptotexty

When COVID-19 times started "The Plague" by Albert Camus become once again popular. Yes, I remember I wanted to buy it somewhere at the beginning of 2020 and it went out of circulation, so Folio (Ukrainian publisher who published translation) made a...

Brave new world, by Aldous Huxley (book analysis)

16 Dec 2020 6 minute read 1 comment Azure95

summary and reflections: The book begins with being in the egg hatchery, where all people are raised in containers, the staff can then easily manipulate the fetus to the class he or she should be in. The classes are Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta and Epsi...

Running Man. A Memoir of Ultra-Endurance

7 Dec 2020 1 minute read 2 comments Andrii Androshchuk

Original language name: “Running Man. A Memoir of Ultra-Endurance” Author: Charlie Engle Genre: non-fiction Annotation He ran to get recognition. He ran to survive the drug "break". He ran when his son was born. And when he was in prison. Running ...

Paul Bragg - "Back - is the key to the Health" [B002 - Book review #2]

4 Dec 2020 2 minute read 1 comment Cryptotexty

Right now, I'm writing this from sanatorium in the forest. My pain in the back reached the point that I decided in a moment to go here. Financially, it was not the best time to go, but I understood that pain in the back affects a lot my productivity,...

Kobo Abe - The Woman in the Dunes [B001 - Book review #1]

4 Dec 2020 1 minute read 5 comments Cryptotexty

I can say that I read this book on one breath. It's not long, 150 pages (I read in Ukrainian translations, and of course it's translated from Japanese to multiple languages). The schoolteacher from Tokyo, visits a fishing village to collect insects....

How to Live a Incredible Rich Life With your Current Finances

6 Oct 2020 3 minute read 1 comment gniksivart

If you have not had a chance to read I Will Teach you to be Rich by Ramit Sethi you should definitely check out the book. I know it sounds really like a huge gimmick, but this book has a completely different take on finance and savings than any other...