Ataraxia

  this young woman at a table in what was it Mexico and the fifty years old with bun inviting her to his table, where he eats some raw fish marinated in lime juice and it comes with a condom, also has some aphrodisiac or sex name for the dish Young woman tells abaout her scuba and after 20 minutes, she comes out of water in a storm, only the boat, person who is supposed to help is not there, and we have a metaphor here, about abaondemnet, except the older guy is not into it She eats from his dish, but he is the major player in his story, selfish man…we have a quote from Orson Welles link Orson here About happy end, it all depends when you decide to end the story Also Oscar Wilde of the one should always be in love, that is why one should never marry’, and so many other quotes fame – something about the ego, all the others are taken, so be concerned with your own, or what was it? Then we see that the narrator sees her own story in this Estrangment     M...

  The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck is ranked 274 th on The Greatest Books of All Time, it was the best-selling novel in the United States in both 1931 and 1932, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1932, and was influential in Buck's winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1938, though I did not find it on The 1,000 Novels Everyone Must Read, or any of the other important lists     <img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg07xtKX7lHAExP_Jd9tUAmuUv1T9tEZPDun9Y8s04P1h_ymcabHURlHiBTAk4tX3h5apfBNaGBB5fXWYDg1l1PMbDwe-sxOmKgHu7jqonTYqMbLN3sn8v4IK9tYpTOhoU9QskQOdfmHmuOO__7VxE7VMYk03zQZcPnKpMjQIKR7NN_lL3TbJuoZZsASVLO/w177-h316/image.jpeg" /> 9 out of 10   The Good Earth has reminded me of The Rickshaw Boy https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/08/rickshaw-boy-aka-camel-xiangzi-by-lao.html perhaps because the heroes of both novels have to work pulling the rickshaw, albeit in one, that is the defining trait, seen in the titl...

  Batman The Movie, based on the comics books 7.7 out of 10 It could be more fun to watch this adventure comedy from 1966, than the more recent super productions. Granted, this cinephile is not keen on any of the comics based productions, old or new. But there is a charm, a naïveté to this old crime story. When Batman and Robin run on the streets of the city, you can exult - or just find it ridiculous- at the special effects of the age. There was a time when they could not film protagonists in their cars, as they drove. Orson Welles was one of the best directors ever and the one who introduced some new techniques, from his Magnus opus, Citizen Kane, to A Touch of Evil. Batman The Movie does not bring much though, apart from the sense that this was  The Age of Innocence... In terms of special effects anyway.

  Happy Habits: A Happier, Healthier Life One Minute at a Time by Tal Ben Shahar, who used to be a Harvard Professor     <img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhODnZhRkjjKbJaqofBhInS1vPtdbQ7TSG1OuYCE4tJ6LAQv7kr-kefoHr1fGZibMv8had3Q1JbsVRrY42HH8yU-EUg1RD2D5jQ6ac83ygZ5RJfuFch_xBn0b4Jz5oDykieeEIQp2RejM8L0tlPBRtrXD7MWlX6KzRS0LLTU6myolWwovTL5bi07UdW1z1r/s1600/image.jpeg" />   10 out of 10   Tal Ben Shahar https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/choose-life-you-want-by-tal-ben-shahar.html used to be a quintessential Harvard Professor, he may still teach there, though I doubt it, he has had the most popular lectures in the history of that Ivy League institution, one in five students were enrolled for his classes   You can access those fabulous lessons online, on YouTube, where they are available free of charge – or they may have changed that, I have not checked recently – they can change your life, and th...

Mrs. Eckdorf in O'Neill's Hotel was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1970, although it does not seem to exist on The Greatest Books of All Time site     <img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhODnZhRkjjKbJaqofBhInS1vPtdbQ7TSG1OuYCE4tJ6LAQv7kr-kefoHr1fGZibMv8had3Q1JbsVRrY42HH8yU-EUg1RD2D5jQ6ac83ygZ5RJfuFch_xBn0b4Jz5oDykieeEIQp2RejM8L0tlPBRtrXD7MWlX6KzRS0LLTU6myolWwovTL5bi07UdW1z1r/s1600/image.jpeg" /> 7 out of 10   I have been enchanted https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/07/mesmerized-by-reading-turgenev-by.html by four masterpieces written by William Trevor, only this time the magic did not work, and it must have been the under signed, Mrs. Eckdorf might have been intriguing, captivating enough, and the hotel, well, it was quite outré   Rading Turgenev, The Story of Lucy Gault have been magnificent, the latter is about a tragedy involving the girl in the title, I could not remember exactly her fate, but i...

  The Shipping News by Annie Proulx won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the U.S. National Book Award, as well as other awards…it is one of The 1,000 Novels Everyone Must Read, and it is ranked 468 th on The Greatest Books of All Time site and BBC News listed The Shipping News on its list of the 100 most inspiring novels     <img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEivX3BNQF0n_nNbSINFQE1a-AIewM35Uh4hFMBCTFTwtSxMuEgzd2wq5fxnMFSmkW44By5TVdga3Nrk422H3p3nsq13euKs7rlFtVt4KdGJowiapPD0kzM6PGLxLxVmr1WnrrHO42b1uU0WieLfNKT4PmK6-H8GR_UIbxDE27VTiEQes3UdXSFRaWT8zAbO" />     9 out of 10   The Shipping News may be about PTSD, or the solution offered in https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/01/the-how-of-happiness-by-sonja.html The How of Happiness by Sonja Lyubomirsky, a classic of psychology that can change your life, just like the hero of Shipping News changed his   “Happiness Activity No 6: Developing Strategies for...