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And yet few things about our beings are as remarkable, foundational, and seemingly mysterious as consciousness. Without consciousness- that is, a mind endowed with subjectivity-you would have no way of knowing that you exist, let alone know who you are and what you think.
“Self Comes to Mind” by Antonio Damasio
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Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the Conscious Brain by Antonio Damasio
This book is about understanding consciousness and providing a new perspective on how the human brain works and how we see ourselves. It is written by Antonio Damasio who is a neuroscientist. I think he writes beautifully and the way he explains these concepts are interesting and imaginative.
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I have late night conversations with the moon, he tells me about the sun and I tell him about you.
S.L. Gray
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Sometimes we get sad about things and we don't like to tell other people that we are sad about them. We like to keep it a secret. Or sometimes, we are sad but we really don't know why we are sad, so we say we aren't sad but we really are.
Christopher John Francis Boone; “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time” by Mark Haddon
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Smoke and Mirrors by Neil Gaiman
A collection of stories. “Miraculous inventions and unforgettable characters inhabit these pages: an elderly widow who finds the Holy Grail in a second-hand store...a frightened little boy who bargains for his life with a troll living under a bridge by the railroad tracks...a stray cat who battles nightly against a recurring evil that threatens his unsuspecting adoptive family.”
My favorite one so far was “Chivalry”. I also recommend that you read the introduction.
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Bookish Asks
I saw these 50 questions about books on my dashboard and thought it would be fun to answer them. I tag anyone who has the time and want to answer it.
1: What book did you last finish? When was that? Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling; that was around Nov. 1st.
2: What are you currently reading? Galápagos by Kurt Vonnegut
3: What book are you planning to read next? Inferno by Dan Brown (maybe)
4: What was the last book you added to your tbr? Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks
5: Which book did you last re-read? Sarah’s Key by Tatiana De Rosnay
6: Which book was the last one you really, really loved? The Curious Incident of the Dog in the NIght-Time by Mark Haddon
7: What was/were the last book/books you bought? Galápagos by Kurt Vonnegut and Smoke and Mirrors by Neil Gaiman
8: Paperback or hardcover? Why? Hardcover because it’s more durable and tends to feel nicer to read.
9: YA, NA or Adult? Why? NA/Adult because it’s more relatable to me.
10: Sci-Fi or fantasy? Why? Fantasy because I like how it generally uses history as inspiration. Sci-Fi books can do this too but it’s typically in a futuristic setting.
11: Classic or modern? Why? Modern because it’s easier to connect.
12: Political memoirs or comedic memoirs? Comedic memoirs
13: Name a book with a really bad movie/tv adaption World War Z
14: Name a book where the movie/tv adaption actually was better than the original Fight Club
15: What book changed your life? Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne (sentimental reasons)
16: If you could bring three books to a deserted island which would you bring and why? The Giver by Lois Lowry because it was an adolescence book that I really liked. The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien because I never read it but I do like the story from the movie. And some survival book because I’ll need something to help me survive on the deserted island.
17: If you owned a bookshop what would you call it? I never thought about it... maybe the same name as this Tumblr account, so Notable Diction.
18: Which character from a book is the most like you? I don’t have an answer for this one (yet I suppose).
19: Which character from a book is the least like you? Hermoine Granger (I’m not as clever or strict with views about life)
20: Best summer read? Most romantic books because they can be very uplifting or comedic.
21: Best winter read? Any fantasy book, because you’ll have more time to spend reading.
22: Pro or anti e-readers? Why? Neither, I’m not bothered if someone chooses to read through electronics.
23: Bookdepository or Amazon? Amazon? I don’t know what Bookdepository is.
24: Do you prefer to buy books online or in a bookshop? Bookshop
25: If you could be a character from a book for just one day who would you be and why? (Bonus: any specific day in the story?) Ever since I was little I always wanted to be Violet from A Series of Unfortunate Events and in the part where she and her siblings were living with Uncle Monty. They sounded like they had a great time, stayed in a really cool home (especially the reptile room) and they were finally with someone who they enjoyed.
26: If you could be a character from a book for their entire life who would you be and why? I would pick a character from the Harry Potter series. I think it would be nice to be able to do magic and there was enough content to build depth into that world. Maybe I would pick Luna Lovegood. I wonder how she spends her time... plus it seems that both the character and I enjoy painting.
27: If you could change one thing about mainstream literature what would you change? (i.e. more diversity, better writing, better plot etc.) More complex characters to develop depth in the story. I would say that I enjoy stories more when there is no definitive good or bad.
28: How many books have you read so far this year? Three or two that I can remember. Very small amount.
29: How do you sort your shelves? (i.e. by color, author, title etc.) By author.
30: Who’s your favorite author? Considering that I have never read a Harry Potter book until recently, I would say that J. K. Rowling is my favorite.
31: Who’s your favorite contemporary author? Mark Haddon
32: Who’s your favorite fantasy author? George R. R. Martin
33: Who’s your favorite Sci-Fi author? H.P. Lovecraft
34: List five OTPs Uh... hmm, Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth, ... no idea.
35: Name a book you consider to be terribly underrated Maybe The Curious Incident of the Dog in the NIght-Time by Mark Haddon
36: Name a book you consider to be terribly overrated Probably 50 Shades of Grey by E. L. James. I haven’t even read that book but I read the first paragraph or so. It was a struggle.
37: How many books are actually in your bookshelf/shelves right now? I won’t count, I estimate around 30-40 books.
38: What language do you (most often) read in? English
39: Name one of your favorite childhood books A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket
40: Name one of your favorite books from your teenage years The Giver by Lois Lowry
41: Do you own a library card? How often do you use it? Yes, and almost never because I am not around that area anymore.
42: Which was the best book you had to read in school? Sarah’s Key by Tatiana De Rosnay
43: Are you the kind of person who reads several books at once or the kind of person who can only read one book at a time? I read one book at a time.
44: Do you like to listen to music when you read? No
45: What is your favorite thing to eat when you read? Pretzels
46: What is your favorite thing to drink when you read? Water or tea
47: What do you do to get out of a reading slump? Take a break from it or habituate it.
48: Where is your favorite place to read? Couch or outside.
49: When is your favorite time to read? Afternoon/evening
50: Why do you love to read? It’s a nice way to relax, maybe escape from stress, it can be interesting, I can learn something from it, and it can offer a different perspective or causes a time to reflect.
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The Egyptian by Mika Waltari
A historical novel about a fictional character named Sinuhe (the royal physician), “...,who tells the story in exile after Akhenaten's fall and death.”
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09-06-16 The Road by Cormac McCarthy The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay The Giver by Lois Lowry
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Mrs. Forbes said that hating yellow and brown is just being silly. And Siobhan said that she shouldn't say things like that and everyone has favorite colors. and Siobhan was right. But Mrs. Forbes was a bit right, too. Because it is sort of being silly. But in life you have to take lots of decisions and if you don't take decisions you would never do anything because you would spend all your time choosing between things you could do. So it is good to have a reason why you hate some things and you like others. It is like being in a restaurant like when Father takes me out to a Berni Inn and sometimes you look at the menu and you have to choose what you are going to have. But you don't know if you are going to like something because you have't tasted it yet, so you have favorite foods and you choose these, and you have foods you don't like and you don't choose these, and then it is simple.
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
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He was asking too many questions and he was asking them too quickly. They were stacking up in my head like loaves in the factory where Uncle Terry works. The factory is a bakery and he operates the slicing machine. And sometimes a slicer is not working fast enough but the bread keeps coming and there is a blockage. I sometimes think of my mind as a machine, but not always as a bread slicing machine. It makes it easier to explain to other people what is going on inside it.
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
A 15-year-old boy named Christopher John Francis Boone, discovers a dead dog in the garden of a neighbor. In pursuit of working on his own murder mystery novel, he decides to investigate further for experience. Thus undoubtedly leading to more “puzzles” to solve.
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Francis Scott Key FItzgerald (Sept. 24, 1896 - Dec. 21, 1940)
An American novelist and short story writer. Completed four novels (“This Side of Paradise”, “The Beautiful and Damned”, “The Great Gatsby”, and “Tender is the Night”) and one unfinished fifth novel (”The Love of the Last Tycoon”). Attended Princeton University, as a dedicated writer. He became heavily involved in writing pursuits that eventually put him on academic probation since his studies suffered. He dropped out of school to join the Army. He became afraid that he would die in war without fulfilling his literary dreams. So, he quickly wrote “The Romantic Egotist” and submitted it before reporting for duty. The reviewer had rejected it but encouraged him to keep writing.
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Men of broader intellect know that there is no sharp distinction betwixt the real and the unreal; that all things appear as they do only by virtue of the delicate individual physical and mental media through which we are made conscious of them; but the prosaic materialism of the majority condemns as madness the flashes of super-sight which penetrate the common veil of obvious empiricism.
“The Tomb” (1971) by H.P. Lovecraft
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authors, books and short stories
Authors
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ernest Hemingway
Mika Waltari
H.P. Lovecraft
Mark Haddon
Neil Gaiman
S.L. Gray
Novels
Tender Is The Night
The Egyptian
The Old Man and the Sea
The Sun Also Rises
This Side of Paradise
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Smoke and Mirrors
Short Stories
The Tomb
Poems
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Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Work every day. No matter what has happened the day or night before, get up and bite on the nail.
Ernest Hemingway
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"But, boys," he added, "listen carefully to what I say and then forget it at once- or forget at least that it was the royal skull surgeon who said it. You will now fall into the hands of priests; you, Sinuhe, will become one yourself in course of time. Your father and I were both initiated into the lowest grade, and no one may follow the physician's calling without being so initiated. When you come among them, be wary as jackals and cunning as serpents, that you be not blinded and misled. But outwardly be as harmless as doves, for not until the goal is attained may a man appear as he is, Remember!"
The Egyptian by Mika Waltari
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