Time for me to explore the sufi poets. So i bought these three books:
1) Hafiz - The Gift
2) Rumi - The Essential Rumi
3) Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Time for me to explore the sufi poets. So i bought these three books:
1) Hafiz - The Gift
2) Rumi - The Essential Rumi
3) Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
"If on a winter's night a traveler" By Italo Calvino.
This one was quite spontaneous, since i picked the book and read the first page (something i never do in general) and it seemed quite fascinating.
Through the darkness of future past
the magician longs to see
one chance out between two worlds
'Fire walk with me.'
Twin Peaks
Mesha Selimovich(Meša Selimović) - Dervish and The Death
Finally found it, the best book from Balkan so far, one of the greatest ever; I have quotes from it above my bed
At thunder and tempest, At the world's coldheartedness,
During times of heavy loss And when you're sad
The greatest art on earth Is to seem uncomplicatedly gay.
To get things clear, they have to firstly be very unclear. But if you get them too quickly, you probably got them wrong.
If you need me urgent, send me a PM
The Luzhin Defence by Vladimir Nobokov.
Because it is about a chess player and, although I don't play it very well, the game fascinates me.
I finished reading it a week ago. I think you will like it, it's a great choice. No wonder you've decided to buy after reading the first page. When I started it I thought it is going to be a great read after I read the first sentence. It makes you feel comfortable as a reader, makes you think the book was written specially for youOriginally Posted by manolia
. It consist mainly of beginnings and although at some point this become a bit tiring, it is definitely worth it. It's one of the best books I've read lately. I hope you will like it too
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Currently reading:
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
'Where the Wild Things Are' by Maurice Sendak, ostensibly for my baby daughter, but actually for my own visual and verbal devourances.
would be south beach diet... why because im over weight
That has to be one of the most logical answers on this forum.would be south beach diet... why because im over weight
Today I bought three new books
"The Complete Poems of Walt Whitman" - the Wordsworth Edition. I've been searching for it for a few months and finally saw it in the book store. It is actually quite hard to find here
"The Collector" by John Fowles - I've heard good things about Fowles and I decided to read something written by him.
"The Sea, The Sea" by Iris Murdoch I've read one of her books and I was quite impressed so I was curious about her other works.
Currently reading:
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami - I've heard good things about the author and book in general.
Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper - I misplaced or lost my copy.
expectabam bona et venerunt mihi mala praestolabar lucem et eruperunt tenebrae - Job 30:26
The Meaning of Night: A Confession by Michael Cox
I was looking for a good murder, mystery read....I shouldn't have bought it, I needed the money for something else, but I just couldn't resist. lol.
Little one, Fate might miscarry.
Little one, why do you tarry?
Little one, When May I marry you?
My little one.
The ground beneath her feet - Salman Rushdie, and two seconds later, Shalimar the Clown.
I've been meaning to read Rushdie for a long time, and I just couldn't resist the first title, and since they were both quite cheap (I work in a bookstore, and get a substantial discount) I bought the second one as well, since i've read more about it.
Notes from the underground
Possession
I bought them for school
Do, or do not. There is no try. - Yoda
The Complete Works of Walt Whitman
I bought it because when I was in Grade three, and still excelling academically, my teacher Mr.M gave me a book of poems by old uncle Whitman. I was hooked. Unfortunately, when I moved out of home, I lost all of my books. So this is the re-start of my poetry collection.
Naked except for a cigarette, you let your mind drift and forget your disbelief. Feel the chill down your back and the flutter of wings through dandelion fields, and forget the pull of gravity in a night without stars.
I lack eloquence and commitment to my arguments. They are half baked, and I will begin passionately, and then abandon them.
Queen, Empress, Concubine, Fifty Women Rulers from the Queen of Sheba to Catherine the Great by Claudia Gold
Why: It was a steal for the price I got on it and it looked like a great reference.
"The elements themselves do not endure;
Examine how they change and learn from me...
Nothing retains its form; new shapes from old
Nature, the great inventor, ceaselessly
Contrives. In all creation, trust me,
There is no death -- no death, but only change
And innovation; what we men call birth
Is but a different new beginning; death
Is but to cease to be the same..."
--Ovid, Metamorphosis
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