I read ‘Siddhartha’ five months ago, and I still think about it almost every day. I felt my whole perspective on life shift after finishing it, and now I can’t imagine my life without having read it. Which book has done this for you?

November 7, 2021 No comments Article

Quoth Siddhartha: “What should I possibly have to tell you, O venerable one? Perhaps that you’re searching far too much? That in all that searching, you don’t find the time for finding?”[…] “When someone is searching,” said Siddhartha, “then it might easily happen that the only thing his eyes still see is that what he

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V for Vendetta – always good, now scary

November 6, 2021 No comments Article

Rewatched V for Vendetta today, as is tradition because it’s the 5th of November.I always loved this film and thought it was an excellent story. But given everything that’s happened over the last few years, with the rise of the authoritarian right and especially a deadly virus killing tens of thousands, it hits a lot

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Sometimes, there’s a moment where a book reminds you of the beauty of life and you realise how lucky you are that you get to read it.

November 5, 2021 No comments Article

I’m reading The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot, and the fifth chapter has a paragraph that genuinely gave me butterflies.The paragraph is about a woman who’s forced moved on from a project she loved. Lenni, one of the two protagonists, has her life changed by this woman. And there’s something about the way

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