This books helps to understand the teachings of the stoics. It explains the principles with quotations from people like Seneca and Marcus Aurelius, and also some newer work like from Montagne.
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Matto reviewed The practicing stoic by Ward Farnsworth
At the school of philosophy founded at Athens by Zeno of Citium the teachers believed …
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5 stars
Matto reviewed Two Serious Ladies by Jane Bowles
Eccentric, adventurous Christina Goering Meets the anxious but equally enterprising Mrs. Copperfield at a party. …
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3 stars
Weird but reasonable entertaining
The pearl by John Steinbeck
A novel.
Matto rated Tao: The Watercourse Way: 4 stars
Matto reviewed The Forever War by Joe Haldeman (The Forever War, #1)
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5 stars
Great story
Matto reviewed Seduction of the minotaur by Anaïs Nin
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4 stars
One of those books I should have read 30 years ago.
Matto rated To the lighthouse: 3 stars
To the lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
This novel is an extraordinarily poignant evocation of a lost happiness that lives on in the memory. For years now …
Matto reviewed Walking by Henry David Thoreau
If you are ready to leave father and mother, and brother and sister, and wife …
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3 stars
Short book
Matto reviewed Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
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4 stars
A young woman's writings during a spiritual year in nature. Nice to read.
A Room of One's Own is an extended essay by Virginia Woolf, first published in …
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5 stars
Wonderful written
Matto reviewed Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert
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4 stars
It is hard to predict how our choices work out for our happiness. The writer shows how we are bad at remembering how we felt, and why we are bad in predicting our future feelings.
Matto reviewed Out of the Silent Planet by C. S. Lewis
The first book in Lewis's Space Trilogy, Out of the Silent Planet tells the story …
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4 stars
Entertaining story, and of course, with a message about human life.
Matto rated Journal of a Solitude: 3 stars
Journal of a Solitude by May Sarton
"I am here alone for the first time in weeks," May Sarton begins this book, "to take up my 'real' …