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Frustrated in a browse for something contemporary, I picked up Flannery O'Connor's "The Violent Bear It Away". I miss the daring elan and wry metaphors of more recent novelists. She was certainly a ground-breaker in that style, but a bit plodding in comparison. (It was one of those days when I said to myself "I've already read all the good books!".) (Look---four punctuation characters in a row. Can you tell I'm bored?)
"Fatal Passage" about the amazing Hudson Bay Doctor and Explorer who discovered the fate of the Franklin expedition and was vilified for it by his contemporaries including Charles Dickens. Fascinating man , fascinating book.
I have also started to re-read my PG Wodehouse collection, always a perfect antidote to gloom. An absolute comic genius and a wordsmith though I gather you either love or hate it.
I'm not big on self-help books or anything of the like. But I'm reading the follow-up book from Eckhart Tolle called 'A New Earth'. The first is called 'The Power of Now'. These books aren't really self-help books. Nope. They're books, or guides, if you will, to getting out of 'mind-thinking' and more into spiritual Being. We must set aside our beliefs (not forget or dismiss) and realize that the words of long ago have been distorted by 'man' to teach through fear. If any of you have looked around lately, or have read history, you'll know it's not working. Not beneficial or productive.
Too many of us strive towards how much we have outside our lives. When it's so much more important and relevant as to how much life we have inside. We must stop identifying ourselves by the material things in our lives and focus more on the things, we do, not buy.
"It's not who you are inside, but what you do, that defines you" - Rachel Dawes (Batman Begins)
One of the best quotes I've ever heard.
A personal thought from my heart is, "The only thing of any TRUE value and importance, is the understanding and tolerance of our fellow humans.
Ralph Peters The War after Armageddon a novel depicting a future in which LA is a radioactive ruin, Europe lies bleeding, Israel is no more and America fights the Jihadists to reclaim the devastated Holy Land.
"Compelling characters, thrilling small-unit battle scenes, and the terrifying possibility that it could all come true make this a must-read" - Publishers Weekly review
I'm reading another favorite now - Iris Murdoch. Specifically, An Accidental Man. It has a different feel to me than many of her other books - it's funnier! In fact, I was saying to my mom that if you can find any similarity between how Wodehouse and Waugh characterize the British upper class -that's what I'm getting from this story by Murdoch. It's starting to turn and get more complicated in the classic Murdoch way, though
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