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Shabbat Reading: Harry Mulisch's The Discovery of Heaven
Imagine The Da Vinci Code as a novel of ideas...
Yeshua Tolle
Mar 3, 20241 min read
Shabbat Reading: Tim Parks's Out of My Head
Is everything I experience just in my head?
Yeshua Tolle
Feb 11, 20244 min read
from My Commonplace Book (incomprehension)
"Perhaps what happened cannot be comprehended, or, rather, shouldn’t be comprehended, because to comprehend is almost to justify."
Yeshua Tolle
Feb 5, 20241 min read
Shabbat Reading: Milan Kundera's A Kidnapped West
A short book with an outsized impact.
Yeshua Tolle
Feb 4, 20244 min read
Shabbat Reading: Romain Gary/Émile Ajar's The Life Before Us
The Life Before Us is the coming-of-age story of a foul-mouthed Arab orphan boy.
Yeshua Tolle
Jan 21, 20243 min read
Shabbat Reading: Albert-László Barabási's Linked
If you ever wondered how six degrees of separation works, this is the book for you.
Yeshua Tolle
Jan 14, 20241 min read
Shabbat Reading: Henry James's The Turn of the Screw
The Turn of the Screw is a ghost story. It’s also a character study in compulsion, and perhaps deception.
Yeshua Tolle
Jan 7, 20241 min read
Shabbat Reading: George Bonanno's The End of Trauma
Bonanno upends the conventional understanding of trauma, revealing that resilience, rather than disorder, is our typical response.
Yeshua Tolle
Dec 31, 20231 min read
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