Despite drowning in revision and my uni papers, which also deal with books, I decided to get more books. As a way to procrastinate for doing my uni papers, I ended up scrolling through the e-commerce sites looking for imported books. I was being very specific in what I wanted, It has to be delivered instantly and within a few hours. So, there were only a few if not less than 4 shops that could do that. I searched through the book lists and I found either communism and socialism book genres or straight up mein kampf. There was one book store that sold novels and non-fiction that I was interested in. Initially I was about to get Ready Player Two, until I had some thoughts that it would be best to read the first one. In the end, long story short, I ended up buying The Art of Thinking Clearly by Rolf Dobelli and The Evening and The Morning by Ken Follet.
If you read more below, there'll be surprises!
Prior to this, I have had a small exposure to Follet’s work. A friend of mine was doing voice reading and he was reading Follet's work which I forgot the title of. It was interesting and quite descriptive. I had no idea that it was actually a trilogy. Because of that curiosity, I decided to dive into the late dark ages. Since I got the book, I only read about 4 pages and was able to get some vibe and started building the world inside my head when I read it. I will have to review them later after I finish reading it.
When it comes to The Art of Thinking Clearly by Rolf Dobelli, I was only going with my intuition. I read a similar book title in the past but it wasn’t from Dobelli. I like anything with the word “think” as the title. So, that filters out anything in that store. Since the book arrived, I have read some of it. My favorite part so far is the Harvard page. It was a chapter titled “ Does Harvard Make You Smarter?” which basically talks about self-illusion. Dobelli said in the book “ That’s why it’s important to give wide berth to tips and advice from self-help authors. For billions of people, these pieces of advice are unlikely to help”(p.6). I think that is something intriguing given that these days there are many self-help authors. There are people talking about how to, but actually we need to remind ourselves that perhaps, those advice won’t work on us. Anyway, that two books are probably what I will be reading this September.
What is your current read list? Do you have any books you want to get? If you comment about the books you want to read or want to buy below, get the chance to win 5 hive!
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Hello, fellow book-lover! It’s encouraging to find someone on here who shares my passion for reading and philosophy 🤓
If you like, pick a book of mine and I’m happy to gift you an e-copy:
Cheers,
Yahia
Oh hey, I'd have to check out if you have the kindle version. It would be nice if we could highlight you in our next hive book club contest. So, basically what we do there is buying a copy of kindle version of the author that we highlight (e-book is even great) and we use that as an additional prize in the contest. I choose e-book or kindle because we have many contestant from different parts of the world, much easier to do it digitally. I look forward to reaching to you soon. I hope you'd be interested too. If you want to know what kind of contest that I am talking about, here are some of the examples :
Today, is just my lucky day, @macchiata ! Yes, I would be delighted for you to highlight my work in your next book club contest. My latest book, Revolutions of the Heart, is available in Kindle as are three others, here: https://www.amazon.com/Yahia-Lababidi/e/B0042SRQWG?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1&qid=1630816994&sr=8-1
Looking forward to hearing more from you, and you're welcome to write me by email, too: [email protected]
Hope you're having a lovely weekend :)
Yahia
Hello, @macchiata, just checking in to see if you got my message below/ need anything further from my end. Have a lovely weekend. Yahia
I saw it. been busy and sick so, I'll catch up soon
Aye, sorry to hear it, I hope you feel better 🙏
I just finished reading "the art of victory" I wrote an article HERE. Now I will finish reading "The wolf of Wallstreet".
If you finish the wolf of wallstreet, write a review on it on Hive Book Club! also, it looks like you're gonna win the 5 hive 😁 no competitor so far.
impulsive book shopping? 😅
yep yep. I wanted to buy more but monies.
I do impulsive book shopping sometimes too!
I usually go with my intuition when I want to pick a book and first seeing the image of the two books you bought, I'll most likely go for The Evening and The Morning by Ken Follet. Looks like a delightful read! And I was right! Hehe.
Presently, I am reading the Guild Hunter series by Nalini Singh. I'm enjoying it and hope to do a review on them soon! 🙂
You're eligible for the raffle 😄 and I look forward reading your review!