A year in books

Meeting my Goodreads goal of 35 books in a year was one of my most gratifying accomplishments of 2018 1. The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy This book was recommended to me by my mom, and besides her suggestions usually being pretty solid, I was excited to start the year with a book … Continue reading A year in books

Read

"And no- writers do not have to be visionaries."Doris Lessing "We forget that novels continuously are introducing errors of life we haven't thought of before; that haven't really been in the public consciousness." When one loves to read, some values get imbibed by default. For example, being true to ones-self and knowing who we are … Continue reading Read

Literature and Art

Now, the use of culture is that it helps us, by means of its spiritual standard of perfection, to regard wealth as but machinery, and not only to say as a matter of words that we regard wealth as but machinery, but really to perceive and feel that it is so. If it were not … Continue reading Literature and Art