“One of the most pleasant thoughts to any human being is the thought that he is needed, that he is important enough and competent enough to help and add to the happiness of some other human being.” Read More on Amazon When I wear a suit I feel different. My body is still the same, […]

Leer en Amazon Junot Diaz nos cuenta la historia de 3 generaciones de una familia dominicana que se muda a Nueva Jersey para escapar del terror de la dictadura de Rafael Trujillo.    Pero intercambiar las palmeras y el trópico por el inglés y el frío no resuelven sus problemas, es más, la maldición que corre […]

Read more on Amazon The premise of Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki is irresistible. Tsukuru’s highschool group of friends suddenly cut him off for no apparent reason. In his late 30s, he decides to find out why.    I rarely buy a book on impulse, but this time, curiosity took the best of me.     Being exiled from the […]

  Read More on Amazon Twenty-three hundred years ago Aristotle concluded that, more than anything else, men and women seek happiness.  There are many ways we have sought happiness since Aristotle was around. And in many ways, we have been seeking in the wrong places.  Flow intends to show us the right places.  According to […]

Read More on Amazon A novel about an American who volunteers as an ambulance driver in Italy during WW1 and falls in love with a British nurse.   I am very disappointed by A Farewell To Arms.   In the description on the back cover it says “It’s a novel of great power”, that Hemingway’s description of […]

Novels and Philosophy Beyle, Marie-Henri (Stendhal): The Charterhouse of Parma Bronte, Emily: Wuthering Heights Bulgakov, Mikhail: The Master and Margarita Cary, Joyce: The Horse’s Mouth Chandler, Raymond: The Big Sleep Chandler, Raymond: The Long Goodbye Dalyrmple, Theodore: Our Culture, What’s Left of It (Read my highlights) Dalrymple, Theodore: Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That […]

You can get the book here. The Forgotten Soldier is the terrifying memoir of Guy Sajer, a Frenchman who fought for Germany in WW2. He describes the brutality of the Eastern Front — the fear, hunger, cold, and constant onslaught of the enemy that he endured during years of fighting. The book also tells a […]