Musicophilia6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() Sacks instructs, entertains, and enlightens readers on the complexities of human perceptions of music and just how important music is in innumerable circumstances. In the face of certain brain injuries or disease, it can also provide insights helping with diagnosis and can reach people who are otherwise uncommunicative. Music can have these effects on us just by listening as well as in the course of making music. It can stimulate the brain and enhance learning. Music can touch us in ways nothing else can. Science fiction aside, music is central to human existence, and yet on the surface it’s confounding trying to discern its purpose. In the preface of Oliver Sacks’ landmark book Musicophilia, he muses about how human interactions with music might puzzle a highly intelligent alien being with no frame of reference conjuring a scene from the world of Arthur C. ![]()
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Dhalgren cover6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() I just didn't want to get all wound up in any systems at all.” ![]() Which is what my psychiatrist, whether he knew it or not, was trying, quite effectively, to do to my painting. At worst, they all try to destroy one another. And the religious attitude I guess is that the other two are only useful as long as they promote the good life. ![]() Or, art is the study and praise of man and man's ideals, so therefore a religious experience just becomes a brutalized aesthetic response and psychiatry is just another tool for the artist to observe man and render his portraits more accurately. You know: religion and art are both forms of madness and madness is the realm of psychiatry. At best, each is trying to encompass the other two and define them as sub-groups. They're all in rather uneasy truce with one another in what's actually a mortal battle. As soon as you get a problem in any one of them, the solution it gives is always to go deeper into the same system. All three of them promise you a sense of inner worth and meaning, and spend a lot of time telling you about the suffering you have to go through to achieve it. ![]() Then He Happened by Claudia Y. Burgoa6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() I loved how Jason and Eileen are brought together and I applauded how Jason wanted to become her protector and made Eileen see her worth and teach her to love herself more, to demand more and be a little selfish! She is the poster child of the "Middle child syndrome" and learned to deal with it the best way she could and it too molded her into the person she has become. He was dealt a crap hand at love in the past and was literally left to deal with the damage and fall out by himself.Įileen, oh this girl! I could so empathize with her plight. Jason's past has molded him into the person he is today. ![]() If you have read Maybe Later you were introduced to Jason. Then He Happened is Jason and Eileen's story. Whew!! What a story! This is the second book I have read by this fantastic author and she continues to amaze me! ![]() Space trilogy by cs lewis6/28/2023 ![]() ‘Should I read …?’, ‘What’s that book?’ posts, sales links, piracy, plagiarism, low quality book lists, unmarked spoilers (instructions for spoiler tags are in the sidebar), sensationalist headlines, novelty accounts, low effort content. Promotional posts, comments & flairs, media-only posts, personalized recommendation requests incl. ![]() Please use a civil tone and assume good faith when entering a conversation. All posts must be directly book related, informative, and discussion focused. If you're looking for help with a personal book recommendation, consult our Suggested Reading page or ask in: /r/suggestmeabook Quick Rules:ĭo not post shallow content. It is our intent and purpose to foster and encourage in-depth discussion about all things related to books, authors, genres or publishing in a safe, supportive environment. Subreddit Rules - Message the mods - Related Subs AMA Info The FAQ The Wiki ![]() Join in the Weekly "What Are You Reading?" Thread!.Check out the Weekly Recommendation Thread.New Release: Girls and Their Horses by Eliza Jane Brazier. ![]() All systems red book6/28/2023 ![]() Told from Muderbot’s PoV, at first I was a little concerned that I’d be stuck with a dry narrative about the humans it’s there to protect. Instead, it has unexpectedly become attached to its group of eight human scientists, and its instinct to protect them surprises even it. But the way one is built and has lived one’s life is a powerful thing, and Murderbot doesn’t immediately abandon its assignment. 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In The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, Max Weber contends that the Protestants’ way of life laid the seeds for capitalism to emerge as a full-fledged economic system. What’s “the Protestant ethic”? How did it give rise to modern capitalism? Like this article? Sign up for a free trial here. Shortform has the world's best summaries and analyses of books you should be reading. This article is an excerpt from the Shortform book guide to "The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism" by Max Weber. ![]() The last black unicorn book review6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() None of that worked (and she's still single), but it allowed Tiffany to imagine a place for herself where she could do something she loved for a living: comedy. Or at least she could make enough money-as the paid school mascot and in-demand Bar Mitzvah hype woman-to get her hair and nails done, so then she might get a boyfriend. If she could do that, then her classmates would let her copy their homework, the other foster kids she lived with wouldn't beat her up, and she might even get a boyfriend. Growing up in one of the poorest neighborhoods of South Central Los Angeles, Tiffany learned to survive by making people laugh. ![]() "An inspiring story that manages to be painful, honest, shocking, bawdy and hilarious." -The New York Times Book Review From stand-up comedian, actress, and breakout star of Girls Trip, Tiffany Haddish, comes The Last Black Unicorn, a sidesplitting, hysterical, edgy, and unflinching collection of (extremely) personal essays, as fearless as the author herself. ![]() An Underground Life by Gad Beck6/27/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() I felt a bit disappointed with this book. If anyone reading this runs across information regarding the second book, PLEASE message me. I would very much like to read the continuation of his story. It is definitely not what I was expecting from a Holocaust memoir and the Epilogue in my edition mentions there is a second part to his memoirs but I have been unable to locate it. I guess the fact that he was able to escape the camps in addition to his gay (meaning happy here) outlook on life allowed him to recall such a horrific period of history with such frivolity and good-naturedness. But still, he managed to do significant work in the underground freeing others. He had and made extensive connection and largely survived because he maintained an underground existence. ![]() Gad Beck was lucky enough to survive a Holocaust double whammy gay Jew combo and not even get sent to any of the camps. This CANT be a Holocaust memoir, can it? Apparently it is. I was expecting something along the lines of other Holocaust books I have read, namely a depressing, heart-wrenching tale of the depravity of the human race. We were given an extensive list to choose from and I picked this one because we have been told how if the Nazis had actually exterminated the Jews, gays would have been next. I had to read this book for a class on the Holocaust. ![]() Confess colleen hoover audiobook6/27/2023 ![]() ![]() The last thing Owen wants is to lose Auburn, but he can’t seem to convince her that truth is sometimes as subjective as art. The magnitude of his past threatens to destroy everything important to Auburn, and the only way to get her life back on track is to cut Owen out of it. But when she walks into a Dallas art studio in search of a job, she doesn’t expect to find a deep attraction to the enigmatic artist who works there, Owen Gentry.įor once, Auburn takes a risk and puts her heart in control, only to discover that Owen is keeping some major secrets from coming out. Her goals are in sight and there’s no room for mistakes. ![]() From #1 New York Times bestselling author Colleen Hoover, a new novel about risking everything for love-and finding your heart somewhere between the truth and lies.Īuburn Reed has her entire life mapped out. ![]() Dave grohl the storyteller book6/27/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The joy that I have felt from chronicling these tales is not unlike listening back to a song that I’ve recorded and can’t wait to share with the world, or reading a primitive journal entry from a stained notebook, or even hearing my voice bounce between the Kiss posters on my wall as a child. Having entertained the idea for years, and even offered a few questionable opportunities (“It’s a piece of cake! Just do 4 hours of interviews, find someone else to write it, put your face on the cover, and voila!”) I have decided to write these stories just as I have always done, in my own hand. The joy that I have felt from chronicling these tales So, I’ve written a book. Having entertained the idea for years, and even offered a few questionable opportunities (“Itʼs a piece of cake! Just do 4 hours of interviews, find someone else to write it, put your face on the cover, and voila!”) I have decided to write these stories just as I have always done, in my own hand. You can read this before The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom. Here is a quick description and cover image of book The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music written by Dave Grohl which was published in. Brief Summary of Book: The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music by Dave Grohl ![]() |