AvatarFaye Black12 Books That Will Lift You Up When You Are Downhuffingtonpost.com - Katherine BrooksSometimes, you need a pick-me-up. You're feeling blue, down in the dumps, maybe even dealing with a lump in your throat. Whichever idiom fits your …
AvatarFaye Black22 Contemporary Authors You Absolutely Should Be ReadingBuzzFeed - Isaac FitzgeraldThese writers are not to be missed. 1. Natalie Baszile Natalie Baszile is an essayist and the author of the novel Queen Sugar. Why you should read her: Queen Sugar is about a single mother who suddenly inherits a sugarcane farm in Louisiana, and moves there from Los Angeles to make a new start for her …
AvatarFaye BlackA Practical Philosophy Reading List - RyanHoliday.netryanholiday.net - Ryan HolidayPhoto by Dustin Cohen Very few people wake up and think “I need philosophy.” This is perfectly understandable. But of course, everyone has their own …
AvatarFaye Black100 Notable Books of 2014 (Published 2014)verified_publisherThe New York TimesThe year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, selected by the editors of The New York Times Book Review. FICTION & POETRY ALL OUR NAMES. By Dinaw Mengestu. (Knopf, $25.95.) With great sadness and much hard truth, Mengestu’s novel looks at a relationship of shared dependencies between a Midwestern …
AvatarFaye BlackAnne Lamott on the Greatest Gift of Friendship and the Uncomfortable Art of Letting Yourself Be Seenverified_publisherbrainpickings.org - By Maria PopovaBeyond having written one of the finest books on writing ever published, Anne Lamott embraces language and life with equal zest, squeezing from the …
AvatarFaye BlackLeonardo’s Brain: What a Posthumous “Brain Scan” Six Centuries Later Reveals about the Source of Da Vinci’s Creativityverified_publisherbrainpickings.org - By Maria PopovaOne September day in 2008, Leonard Shlain found himself having trouble buttoning his shirt with his right hand. He was admitted into the emergency …
