Never before have Marcus's insights been so directly and powerfully presented. In fresh and unencumbered English, Hays vividly conveys the spareness and compression of the original Greek text. In Gregory Hays's new translation-the first in thirty-five years-Marcus's thoughts speak with a new immediacy. For anyone who struggles to reconcile the demands of leadership with a concern for personal integrity and spiritual well-being, the Meditations remains as relevant now as it was two thousand years ago. Marcus's insights and advice-on everything from living in the world to coping with adversity and interacting with others-have made the Meditations required reading for statesmen and philosophers alike, while generations of ordinary readers have responded to the straightforward intimacy of his style. A series of spiritual exercises filled with wisdom, practical guidance, and profound understanding of human behavior, it remains one of the greatest works of spiritual and ethical reflection ever written. Few ancient works have been as influential as the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, philosopher and emperor of Rome (A.D. Nearly two thousand years after it was written, Meditations remains profoundly relevant for anyone seeking to lead a meaningful life.
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Willie then stares at another illustration and becomes, along with Carl and two other men, part of a crew of shipwrecked astronauts stranded on a small planet where it rains incessantly. Returning to reality, Willie listens raptly to Carl's tale of how Felicia seduced him into subjecting himself to her tattoo needles. Upon hearing the children scream, Carl and Felicia race into the nursery and are devoured by the lions. Disturbed that the children have chosen an African veldt inhabited by lions and vultures, Carl and Felicia order the youngsters to play in a different environment. Willie stares at one of the illustrations and is transported into the future in which Carl and Felicia are the parents of two precocious children, John and Anna, who have a nursery where they can electronically create any environment they wish. He tells Willie that 20 years before Felicia covered his body with skin illustrations and then "went back into the future." Carl warns that if anyone looks at the one bare spot on his body, his left shoulder, that person will see his own future. Willie, a young man hitchhiking to California in 1933, stops by a country lake and meets Carl, a former carnival roustabout who says he is looking for an old farmhouse and a mysterious woman, Felicia, whom he plans to kill. He has been given the power to combat demons using what essentially is his aura. This series mainly centers around a demon hunter named Chris. If you don’t mind all these things, then you’ve done yourself a favour, because this book is one of the best series’s I’ve ever read. This book will involve a lot of killing (I mean a lot), a bit of romance (in case you don’t enjoy that sort of thing, though it’s not too long) and will talk about demons (I know some people don’t enjoy these things). This book also deserves a warning like Dune. If that was your first reaction, then this book won’t be quite what you were expecting. Ok, so as soon as some of you saw the title you probably went, what? Demon Accords, what a horrible sounding name, I’ll never read that. I don’t know how the Great Bear felt about it, as I had never given him the option to say no.”-Chris We were both loners and fighters, at least that’s how I looked at it. “I have no Native American heritage, but I had decided as a child that my spirit guide animal would be a bear. He wasn't invited to the Yankees' Old-Timers' Day until 1998 Bouton's revealing look at baseball off the field made for eye-opening and entertaining reading, but he paid a big price for the best-seller when former teammates and players and executives across baseball ostracized him for exposing their secrets. Published in 1970, "Ball Four" detailed Yankees great Mickey Mantle's carousing, and the use of stimulants in the major leagues. He fought a brain disease linked to dementia and was in hospice care. He was 80.īouton's family said he died Wednesday at the Great Barrington home he shared with wife Paula Kurman. GREAT BARRINGTON, Massachusetts - Jim Bouton, the former New York Yankees pitcher who shocked and angered the conservative baseball world with the tell-all book "Ball Four," has died. Lively illustrations, dominated by hues of blue and featuring irresistibly cheerful characters, have a childlike feel, as though scribbled by a youngster clutching a crayon. Clanton crafts a whimsical narrative that focuses on quirky conversations rather than superheroic adventures, and the funny story will snare a range of readers. 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Despite this early success, Sonali spent the next few decades getting degrees in architecture and written communication, migrating across the globe, and starting a family while writing for magazines and websites. Sonali lives in the Chicago suburbs with her very patient and often amused husband and two teens who demand both pati Sonali Dev’s first literary work was a play about mistaken identities performed at her neighborhood Diwali extravaganza in Mumbai. With the advent of her first gray hair her mad love for telling stories returned full force, and she now combines it with her insights into Indian culture to conjure up stories that make a mad tangle with her life as supermom, domestic goddess, and world traveler. Sonali Dev’s first literary work was a play about mistaken identities performed at her neighborhood Diwali extravaganza in Mumbai. Joanna Briscoe has written four novels and several short stories and has worked as a freelance journalist. He also writes crime fiction under the pseudonym Dan Kavanagh. His new novel Elizabeth Finch will be published in 2022. He also selected and introduced a collection of John Cheever stories titled A Vision of the World. His book The Man in the Red Coat was published in the UK in 2019 and in the US in 2020. His other recent publications include Keeping an Eye Open: Essays on Art and The Only Story. Julian Barnes is the author of several books of stories, essays, a translation of Alphonse Daudet’s In the Land of Pain, and numerous novels, including the 2011 Man Booker Prize winning novel The Sense of an Ending and the acclaimed The Noise of Time. FACT OF LIFE #2: We don’t make optimal choices. Instead, we scan (or skim) them, looking for words or phrases that catch our eye.Ħ. One of the very few well-documented facts about Web use is that people tend to spend very little time reading most Web pages. Typical culprits are cute or clever names, marketing-induced names, company-specific names, and unfamiliar technical names.ĥ. All kinds of things on a Web page can make us stop and think unnecessarily. As far as is humanly possible, when I look at a Web page it should be self-evident. If something is usable-whether it’s a Web site, a remote control, or a revolving door-it means that A person of average (or even below average) ability and experience can figure out how to use the thing to accomplish something without it being more trouble than it’s worth.ģ. If something requires a large investment of time-or looks like it will-it’s less likely to be used.Ģ. But Sarai, taking on the new and improved role of Izabel Seyfried, still has a set of deadly skills of her own that will prove to be all she needs to secure her place beside Victor.īut there is one test that Izabel must face that has the potential to destroy everything she is working so hard to achieve. Knowing that Sarai cannot become what she wants to be overnight, Victor begins to train her and inevitably their complicated relationship heats up.Īs Arthur Hamburg’s right-hand man, Willem Stephens, closes in on his crusade to destroy Sarai, she is left with the crushing realization that she may have bitten off more than she can chew. Sarai’s reckless choices send her on a path she knows she can never turn back from and so she presents Victor with an ultimatum: help her become more like him and give her a fighting chance, or she’ll do it alone no matter the consequences. Unskilled and untrained in the art of killing, the events that unfold leave her hanging precariously on the edge of death when nothing goes as planned. Also in this series: Killing Sarai, The Swan and the Jackal (In the Company of Killers, #3), Seeds of Iniquity, The Black Wolfĭetermined to live a dark life in the company of the assassin who freed her from bondage, Sarai sets out on her own to settle a score with an evil sadist. In league with JD Salinger, Katherine Mansfield and Guy De Maupassant, in Pure Hollywood Schutt gives us sharply suspenseful and masterfully dark interior portraits of ordinary lives, infused with her signature observation and surprise. From an alcoholic widowed actress living in desert seclusion, to a young mother whose rejection of her child has terrible consequences, a newlywed couple who ignore the violent warnings of a painter burned by love, to an eerie portrait of erotic obsession, each story in Pure Hollywood is an imagistic snapshot of what it means to live and learn love and hurt. Hailed by George Saunders as "a truly gifted writer," with Pure Hollywood & Other Stories, Pulitzer Prize finalist and O Henry Prize winner Christine Schutt returns to the short story form that launched her acclaimed career and her inimitable style that John Ashbery once described as "pared down but rich, dense, fevered, exactly right and even eerily beautiful." In 11 captivating tales, Pure Hollywood brings us into private worlds of corrupt familial love, intimacy, longing, and danger. Summary "Long and short stories from one of our most distinctive prose stylists," the author of the National Book Award finalist, Florida: A Novel ( New York, "The Best Books of the Year So Far"). |