“If I wallow in every loss, that’s all I’ll ever have time for.�
I am mourning the loss of the book I had in my hands. I finished it. I want more. “If I wallow in every loss, that’s all I’ll ever have time for.�
I am mourning the loss of the book I had in my hands. I finished it. I want more. I want to know what is going to happen to my beloved characters. I want to know where the story will take me next. I can’t accept that I am stuck in this spot for who knows how long. This is not fair.
Why not five stars?
There was a lot of time spent off doing things that got to be quite repetitive. It reminded me of the time I watched my husband play the first Assassin’s Creed video game. Each mission brought him to a city that was almost identical to the one before it. The only difference was the size of the city (they kept getting bigger) and the level of difficulty of the mission (it increased). I watched him get bored because the template was obvious. He was thankful when the next game in the series did a better job of masking it.
Four stars to a book that left me hanging in a good way.
A QUOTE:
“Or is the miracle of our relationship the result of a precise combination of tragedies that broke us both so completely that when we collided, we became something entirely new?�...more
“A slight error in judgement while at sea can throw you miles off course. You must constantly study your Way to ensure that you do not lose your wa“A slight error in judgement while at sea can throw you miles off course. You must constantly study your Way to ensure that you do not lose your way.�
This book is a powerhouse of historical significance in its own way, and mad respect for that. It just was not the book that I needed it to be. The writing style was a thing, and the content was a thing. They were both things that were not the thing to educate or benefit me. I had to dig deep and swap out words to find any amount of meaning that I could work with, which took from the reading experience.
“Whatever your determination or will-power, it is foolish to try to change the nature of things. Things work the way they do because that is the Way of things.�
I can now confidently say that that my “Way� does not include books like this one.
QUOTES:
“You cannot take a certain attitude and depend upon it entirely. There are too many variations in attacks from the enemy. What you may think is effective may in fact be ineffective because of the way in which the enemy is “feeling� at that particular moment. Your attitude must be such that you can shift into any other mode of combat without having to make a conscious decision. You must be flexible and you must have no particular liking for any particular set of techniques.�
“To constantly be on the defensive means that you are weak in your resolve and that you do not truly understand the Way of the warrior.�
“Why would you want to change your basic attitudes towards life simply because a new set of events is occurring? If you take the time to change your methodology in midstream your spirit has to catch up, regardless of how quickly you move. Eventually you are going to have to come back to your natural state. So why leave it in the first place?�
“When you are your own self and are not concerned with the motions of others, you will be in control of the situation and in control of the enemy and the movements with which he may or may not attack you.�
Two stars to a book better suited for somebody else.
A FUNNY STORY ABOUT THIS ONE:
A few months back my husband told me he had ordered the perfect book for me. I quizzed him relentlessly, but all I could get out of him was that he saw it and instantly thought of me. I was beyond excited.
Flash forward to the day he opened the mail and handed me this book. I was thrown off by the title and cover, but I trusted him. A dozen or so pages in, and I was perplexed. It was not reading like anything that I would be remotely interested in. My faith in him was still strong, so I decided the problem was with me. That I needed to dig deep for the meaning. I put my all in and went for it. When I finished it, I was speechless. There was no meaning, there was no connection, there was nothing. Was I supposed to fight somebody? Was somebody going to fight me? What was going on?
The answer: He did not buy THIS book for me. This was a book he bought for himself. The reason he handed it to me was so that I could smell the pages. A me thing that I do with all books that enter our home. (Watch yourself. Only those of us free of weird quirks can cast out insults.)
His perfect book for me was still out for delivery. To be continued�....more
A disgruntled with life person comes back to renew his arguments with a philosopher after three years of trying to live his life based off of theirA disgruntled with life person comes back to renew his arguments with a philosopher after three years of trying to live his life based off of their previous conversations.
The first book brought it. This one, not so much. I did like that it went deeper on certain aspects of the topic, but something about how it was done got to be a bit monotonous at the back end of the read. It also didn’t quite match the simplicity of the conversation style done previously. That style slapped the reader with a few powerful words while this one repetitively tapped.
TWO QUOTES THAT CAUGHT MY EYE:
“In other words, we are not creatures who are determined by past events. Rather, we determine our own lives according to the meaning we give to those events.� “Though it may be putting it harshly, it could be said that one is getting drunk on the cheap wine of tragedy and trying to forget the bitterness of an unfortunate ‘now�.�
A QUOTE THAT MADE ME THINK OF THE MOVIE MYSTERY MEN:
“The past does not decide now. Is your now that decides the past.�
THREE CHOICES TO KEEP IN MIND MOVING FORWARD:
“That bad person.� “Poor me.� “What should I do from now on.�
Three stars to a book that was not as awesome as the firstborn....more
A disgruntled with life person argues with a philosopher about life shenanigans.
I appreciate the hell out of the authors for presenting the informA disgruntled with life person argues with a philosopher about life shenanigans.
I appreciate the hell out of the authors for presenting the information the way they did through a conversation between two people. It makes a complex thinker of a topic easier to digest. It gives a reader who wants to argue for and/or against the wisdom being shared (I argue to understand more, thank you very much) exactly what they need, a person doing the arguing for them.
THE QUOTE THAT SPOKE TO ME THE MOST:
“When one seeks recognition from others, and concerns oneself only with how one is judged by others, in the end, one is living other people’s live.�
Five stars to a book that was exactly what I needed at exactly the right time....more
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