BookMarks

📖 John Updike

“My father’s tears had used up mine,” John Updike writes in “My Father’s Tears,” one of his final works of fiction in The New Yorker. Published in 2006, the story, which encapsulates much of a lifetime, is infused with details drawn from the real life of Updike’s dad. Read it here: https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/YkAndv

🌹 “The beauty of the universe consists not only of unity in variety, but also of variety in unity.”

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I’ve been a bookworm ever since I learned how to read, but lately I’ve found myself gravitating toward psychological thrillers, neuroscience books, and novels that either make me think deeply or completely wreck me emotionally. 🥹

I usually try to get through 3-4 books a month, although I have to admit that this year has been a little more challenging. Finding the time to sit down and completely disappear into a book hasn’t been as easy as it used to be (because LIFE).

Anyway, off the top of my head, these are 12 books I’d highly recommend:

📚 The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari -Robin Sharma
📚 The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo -Taylor Jenkins Reid
📚 What I Talk About When I Talk About Running -Haruki Murakami
📚 The Nightingale -Kristin Hannah
📚 The Five People You Meet in Heaven -Mitch Albom
📚 A Little Life -Hanya Yanagihara
📚 When Breath Becomes Air -Paul Kalanithi
📚 Ego Is the Enemy -Ryan Holiday
📚 The Power of Habit -Charles Duhigg
📚 The Midnight Library -Matt Haig
📚 Middle of the Night -Riley Sager
📚 None of This Is True -Lisa Jewell

Always looking for my next great read, so send me your reco’s please! 🙏🏾 Hopefully something I haven’t had the chance to devour yet. 🤍

📖 Orhan Pamuk

"Here we come to the heart of the matter: I’ve never left Istanbul – never left the houses, streets and neighbourhoods of my childhood."

Turkish author Orhan Pamuk describes his book 'Istanbul', that documents the first 22 years of his life, as half biographical, half essay. Born on 7 June 1952 in that same city, Pamuk was awarded the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature with the motivation: "who in the quest for the melancholic soul of his native city has discovered new symbols for the clash and interlacing of cultures."

Watch him read an excerpt from his book 'Istanbul: Memories of a City': https://bit.ly/2zf0CNV

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What happens when a society stops reading, stops questioning, and stops thinking for itself? 🔥

Fahrenheit 451 imagines a future where books are outlawed, ideas are feared, and “firemen” are tasked with burning knowledge rather than protecting it. At the centre is Guy Montag, a man who begins to question the world he has spent his life serving.

What makes the novel endure is not just its vision of censorship, but its warning about distraction, passive entertainment, and what can happen when people slowly stop engaging with the world around them.

More than 70 years later, many of the questions Bradbury raised still feel strikingly relevant, wouldn't you agree?

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The French-Iranian author was famous for her autobiographical graphic novel series and film Persepolis about growing up during the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

Read more: https://bbc.in/3QnFEE2

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Marilyn Monroe 📖📚

For hundreds of years, hardbacks have been published as a book’s first edition, but now many are saying they should be scrapped.
Read more: https://bbc.in/4u1l76d