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Poems by Paul Verlaine – we find the Selected Poems at 7100 on The Greatest Books of All Time site and The One Hundred and One Poems by Paul Verlaine even lower on that page, nonetheless, they are among my favorites…you have thousands of reviews on magnum opera from the GOAT and other lists on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/08/do-you-have-any-suggestions-how-to-make.html and YouTube channel

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  Poems by Paul Verlaine – we find the Selected Poems at 7100 on The Greatest Books of All Time site and The One Hundred and One Poems by Paul Verlaine even lower on that page, nonetheless, they are among my favorites…you have thousands of reviews on magnum opera from the GOAT and other lists on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/08/do-you-have-any-suggestions-how-to-make.html and YouTube channel   10 out of 10   ‘Words create worlds’ https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/02/happier-by-tal-ben-shahar.html I don’t know the source of the original quote, but I have heard this in the YouTube videos of the most popular courses at Harvard, which you could, maybe should access for free, Positive Psychology from the wondrous Tal Ben Shahar   Paul Verlaine is nec plus ultra for yours truly, who has learned three of these masterpieces by heart, decades ago, and then enjoyed them ever since, even during…swimming, I used to take laps for about half...
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Evelina by Frances Burney is one of The 1,000 Novels Everyone Must Read, it is ranked 818th on The Greatest Books of All Time, nevertheless, it failed the capture my attention, and this is mea culpa…you have thousands of reviews of magnum opera from The GOAT, 1,000 Novels and other lists on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/08/do-you-have-any-suggestions-how-to-make.html and YouTube channel

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  Evelina by Frances Burney is one of The 1,000 Novels Everyone Must Read, it is ranked 818 th on The Greatest Books of All Time, nevertheless, it failed the capture my attention, and this is mea culpa…you have thousands of reviews of magnum opera from The GOAT, 1,000 Novels and other lists on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/08/do-you-have-any-suggestions-how-to-make.html and YouTube channel   7 out of 10   Alice Adams https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/07/alice-adams-by-booth-tarkington.html came to mind when reading about Evelina, I thought reading the latter would be as elating as the former, alas, it did not happen, and this is because of the under signed, I did not find it engaging enough, granted, there may be some reasons:   LibriVox is the site where generous volunteers donate their time, they read great works (probably some lesser ones too) that are in the public domain, one such is Evelina, and despite the kudos for the...
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La Force de L’Optimisme by Martin Seligman, who is considered one of the most eminent psychologists of the twentieth century. Founder of positive psychology, he was the president of the American Psychological Association. However, his only book with a ranking on The Greatest Books of All Time site sits at 17297; you have thousands of reviews on books from The GOAT and other sites on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/08/do-you-have-any-suggestions-how-to-make.html and YouTube channel

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  La Force de L’Optimisme by Martin Seligman, who is considered one of the most eminent psychologists of the twentieth century. Founder of positive psychology, he was the president of the American Psychological Association. However, his only book with a ranking on The Greatest Books of All Time site sits at 17297; you have thousands of reviews on books from The GOAT and other sites on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/08/do-you-have-any-suggestions-how-to-make.html and YouTube channel   10 out of 10   Martin Seligman https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/01/flourish-by-martin-seligman.html was the co-founder of Positive Psychology, and with that, he will be more consequential than the Orange American Psycho – as I write this, I have Jimmy Kimmel in the background, ridiculing the latest absurdities from the GOAT   He brags that he is the best of all time, while saying that Iran could take two blue cities, LA and San Diego, in jest, his ...
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The Checklist by Atul Gawande is ranked 13799th on The Greatest Books of All Time site – you have thousands of reviews of magnum opera from The GOAT and other lists on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/08/do-you-have-any-suggestions-how-to-make.html and YouTube channel

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  The Checklist by Atul Gawande is ranked 13799 th on The Greatest Books of All Time site – you have thousands of reviews of magnum opera from The GOAT and other lists on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/08/do-you-have-any-suggestions-how-to-make.html and YouTube channel   9 out of 10   Blink https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/01/blink-power-of-thinking-without.html is the marvelous psychology classic by Malcolm Gladwell that came to mind in connection with The Checklist, mostly because they both seem to explain how you can get to fabulous outcomes in ‘the blink of an eye’, or under one minute   One dazzled me in The Checklist was the segment regarding airplanes, how it became crucial in the operating of these flying machines, especially as they became more complicated: once pilots had to turn on a good number of switches, see that various systems were working, it was very easy to forget once crucial operation Ergo, the checklis...
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The Bikeriders by Danny Lyon does not seem to exist on The Greatest Books of All Time site, where I tend to check my choices, despite the fact that some of my favorites are quite far down the list – nonetheless, you have thousands of reviews of magnum opera from The GOAT and other selections on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/08/do-you-have-any-suggestions-how-to-make.html and YouTube channel

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  The Bikeriders by Danny Lyon does not seem to exist on The Greatest Books of All Time site, where I tend to check my choices, despite the fact that some of my favorites are quite far down the list – nonetheless, you have thousands of reviews of magnum opera from The GOAT and other selections on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/08/do-you-have-any-suggestions-how-to-make.html and YouTube channel   7 out of 10   Easy Rider https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/11/easy-rider-written-by-dennis-hopper.html is the ultimate motion picture on Bikeriders, the book was adapted for the big screen, and though it is not on the level of Easy Rider, it is quite good entertainment, HBO premiered this last night, which is a complicated move   They tend to put on ‘old movies’ on primetime – now that is a title we must see soon, with the ‘anti- tom Cruise’ new star, Robert Pattison – on Sunday evening, which is rather lame, considering this is a premiu...
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The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver was the 1999 finalist for The Pulitzer Prize, it is ranked 865th on The Greatest Books of All Time site, and it is verry popular on Goodreads, where it has more than eight hundred thousand ratings and over thirty thousand reviews – by the way, you find thousands of notes on magnum opera from the GOAT and other lists on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/08/do-you-have-any-suggestions-how-to-make.html and YouTube channel

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  The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver was the 1999 finalist for The Pulitzer Prize, it is ranked 865 th on The Greatest Books of All Time site, and it is verry popular on Goodreads, where it has more than eight hundred thousand ratings and over thirty thousand reviews – by the way, you find thousands of notes on magnum opera from the GOAT and other lists on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/08/do-you-have-any-suggestions-how-to-make.html and YouTube channel   10 out of 10   I was so euphoric https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/09/the-poisonwood-bible-by-barbara.html when I first started to read The Poisonwood Bible that I have already posted a note on it, and the present lines come with the end of the affair, I see now why this was so popular and was shortlisted for The Pulitzer Prize   Demon Copperhead must be excellent, it eventually won the Pulitzer for the author, and I look forward to reading it; Tata Jesus is Bangala, t...
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Rebbetzin by Chaim Grade is the first narrative in Rabbis and Wives, which was shortlisted for the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Literature, albeit I could not find it on The Greatest Books of All Time site at all, never mind seeing it near the top…you find thousands of reviews of magnum opera from The GOAT and other prestigious lists on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/08/do-you-have-any-suggestions-how-to-make.html

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  Rebbetzin by Chaim Grade is the first narrative in Rabbis and Wives, which was shortlisted for the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Literature, albeit I could not find it on The Greatest Books of All Time site at all, never mind seeing it near the top…you find thousands of reviews of magnum opera from The GOAT and other prestigious lists on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/08/do-you-have-any-suggestions-how-to-make.html   8 out of 10   I must say that I am pro semitic https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/07/the-fixer-by-bernard-malamud.html and biased, I enjoy Jewish literature, the way of life, to the point where I wonder if I am not more than 15% Hebrew, this is what my daughter found when looking at where do we come from, maybe it is 30% in my case, halved for Hannah, because she has a mother   The name is Hebrew, and it is associated with grace, favor…now back to Rebbetzin, which is what the wife of the rabbi is called, we can learn quit...
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