Category: Books & Reading
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The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone
Olivia Laing, in her extraordinary and compelling more-than-memoir, The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone, explores how hard it is to make an honest and genuine connection with another human being. The author portrays an intimate and personal portrait of loneliness by delving into the New York art culture. However, don’t misjudge…
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Decoding the Murakami Formula- 1Q84
Haruki Murakami: the Japanese author who has become the darling of the discontented millennials in the English-speaking world, thanks to Instagram quote pages. Murakami masters the surrealist genre. With his writing, which spans over decades, mostly celebrates the lonely protagonists, mysteriously silent women who dress in a navy blue cardigan, as well as a small…
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How to Read a Book Like a Pro
We all know how to read. We all learned how to read a language when we were in primary school. Though just reading and reading well are two different things. In this case, how do we do the latter one? There is a difference between reading for information and reading for understanding. And how you…