Breakfast with Seneca: A Stoic Guide to the Art of LivingDavid FidelerNon-fiction, paperback “Virtue, or excellence of one’s inner character, is the only true good.” More than any other ancient philosophy, Stoicism has stood the test of time because of its universal relevance. No matter where/when we live or the specifics of our circumstances, we…
Tag: Fiction
Category: Review
What I read: May 2024
A Psalm for the Wild-BuiltBecky ChambersFiction, hardback, library book “…every component has been recycled over and over and over again into infinitely incredible configurations, and sometimes, those configurations are special enough to be able to see the world around them. You and I — we’re just atoms that arranged themselves the right way, and we…
What I read: April 2024
The Making of Home: The 500-Year Story of How Our Houses Became HomesJudith FlandersNon-fiction, paperback “…the woman’s ability to keep house became central: it reflected her value. It was no longer simply a matter of was the house adequately cleaned, scrubbed, polished? It was how the upkeep had been achieved, which measured not hygiene, but…
What I read: March 2024
The Facts of MidlifeRobyn PetermanFiction, audiobook “I’d only been forty for three hours and it was already seriously bad. The solitary hand was the rancid icing on top of a really crappy birthday cake.” Daisy knew that turning 40 would mean some changes — gluing body parts back onto ghosts wasn’t on her bingo card….
What I read: February 2024
A Lady’s Guide to Fortune-HuntingSophie IrwinFiction, audiobook “They paused there for a beat, looking at each other with mutual calculation. It occurred to them both, then – though of course they did not know it – that they might equally have agreed to pistols at dawn.” Kitty Talbot has three months to catch a wealthy…