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“It’s no use going back to yesterday…”
Just dropping by for a quick update! It’s getting to be a difficult time of year, in an equally challenging year. I hope to graduate in August, which means from now until then school remains fairly time-consuming. “Real life” issues have also been causing me a bit of stress. However, because of all this stuff… Read more >>
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Viktor Frankl and the Will to Meaning
On the bus this afternoon, I finished reading Viktor Frankl‘s nonfiction classic, Man’s Search for Meaning. It is a short, two-part memoir, detailing first his experiences as a Nazi concentration camp survivor, and second, his own system of psychotherapy, logotherapy. This latter is based on his belief that the driving force in human life is… Read more >>
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The Brothers Karamazov – 2: An Inappropriate Gathering
Click here for other installments in this review series… Oh, yes, I am still reading this book. It’s a quick read; I simply haven’t been reading very frequently. Case in point: book II is almost entirely the dialogue that takes place when the Karamazov family comes together at (of all places) the monastery. Dialogue is… Read more >>
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Hiatus?
Never mind a post title – that ought to be the blog title! I came into this year so sanguine about my reading list, and here it is a few hours away from March, with little to show for such ambitions. School and work are keeping me on my toes, literally all week long. As… Read more >>
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Hi, I’m Marian—I talk about classics, history, and other books on this blog, as well as on YouTube.
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