Ataraxia

  The Son by Philipp Meyer was a finalist for the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, nevertheless, it is only 10337 th on The Greatest Books of All Time site       <img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjGhpSMGyGNt20vTTnHuTBz_Ac2jtMBujn8RkrpVLGnoOXFNabm_NfPoNcICeYm0Jhm2K0NNOK5KEi3xsjn3ICKSTl90_kdPiEu1CSbXYAEM63Lrd4VeaysVQUwDRmLlOLpTl6SZuUFVG4Kbin38aI6zbbxYN3XpDnTSEmr3s-O-UoK4aBySsogy1qbGeUs" />   9 out of 10 The Son has reminded me of Little Big Man https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/07/little-big-man-by-thomas-berger.html by Thomas Berger, and not only because in both oeuvres medicine is a key word, they both describe the life of the Native Americans, in particular the Comanches, in the case of The Son by Philipp Meyer   Actually, the part of the novel that is about Eli or Tiehteti, which is the name given by the Kotsoteka, was the one that I found exhilarating, if it were only for that, then I would give th...

Finalist for Booker   Links to previous all five stars   Man, this woman is a witch Mystery surrounding Eugene Sinott, sister walks out and says you have torn the soul of God, not long afterward she married Mr Grgan, a man she did not like. Eugene marries a maid, Philomena, who then takes away her child and also leaves Eckdorf takes clothes of this man, who paid for sex, then comes with camera and while he is naked talks about…God God is revealed to her she says to father Hennessey She said she was a maerchant of truth, with her camera, she practiced an art. She stayed with a peasant family in Marrakesh for months, the book that resulted won her a coveted award. She had travelled the entire world In this present instance I don’t know quite what I am after - photographing a tragedy that took place nearly thirty years ago. She opens map, says near Dolphin’s Barn. Thaddeus Street Mrs. Sinnott, a woman of ninety-one, owns the hotel O’Neill. It’s now a disorde...

  Norocul aka Luck by Ion Valjan made me think of the psychology classic Stumbling on Happiness by Harvard Professor Daniel Gilbert     <img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg07xtKX7lHAExP_Jd9tUAmuUv1T9tEZPDun9Y8s04P1h_ymcabHURlHiBTAk4tX3h5apfBNaGBB5fXWYDg1l1PMbDwe-sxOmKgHu7jqonTYqMbLN3sn8v4IK9tYpTOhoU9QskQOdfmHmuOO__7VxE7VMYk03zQZcPnKpMjQIKR7NN_lL3TbJuoZZsASVLO/w177-h316/image.jpeg" />   9 out of 10   Stumbling on Happiness https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/02/stumbling-on-happiness-by-david-gilbert.html by Harvard Professor Daniel Gilbert is a glorious chef d’oeuvre which explains the myths of happiness, and the Hedonic Adaptation phenomenon: we assume that we would be happy, if only this thing would happen   Among the most common dreams are: moving to California, or an island in the Caribbean, or Pacific, but tests made with those who did change and lived in those places showed that they app...

  Note on The Shipping News, based on the novel by Annie Proulx | realini

  L’Ecole des Femmes or The School for wives by Moliere is ranked 5744 th on The Greatest Books of All Time site, where Tartuffe is 960 th – Arnolphe is the primogenitor of MAGA, the Orange Plague, that is my conclusion     <img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhODnZhRkjjKbJaqofBhInS1vPtdbQ7TSG1OuYCE4tJ6LAQv7kr-kefoHr1fGZibMv8had3Q1JbsVRrY42HH8yU-EUg1RD2D5jQ6ac83ygZ5RJfuFch_xBn0b4Jz5oDykieeEIQp2RejM8L0tlPBRtrXD7MWlX6KzRS0LLTU6myolWwovTL5bi07UdW1z1r/w155-h277/image.jpeg" /> 9 out of 10   If The School for Wives is only 5744 th on The Greatest Books of All Time site, Tartuffe https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/08/tartuffe-by-moliere.html is 960th and there are other plays by the inspired Moliere that sit quite well among the best oeuvres, his humor may be somewhat passe, but it still works   George Constantin leads the cast for the adaptation that I have listened – indeed, it is in the background righ...

  Un Sale Egoiste by Francoise Dorin – when you search for Francoise Dorin on The Greatest Books of All Time site, the algorithm responds with Francoise Sagan, Dorin does not exist, for The GOAT, not even in the 20,000 th place     <img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg07xtKX7lHAExP_Jd9tUAmuUv1T9tEZPDun9Y8s04P1h_ymcabHURlHiBTAk4tX3h5apfBNaGBB5fXWYDg1l1PMbDwe-sxOmKgHu7jqonTYqMbLN3sn8v4IK9tYpTOhoU9QskQOdfmHmuOO__7VxE7VMYk03zQZcPnKpMjQIKR7NN_lL3TbJuoZZsASVLO/w177-h316/image.jpeg" />   8 out of 10   The Egoist https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/08/do-you-have-any-suggestions-how-to-make.html could be the under signed, though I don’t know about Sale aka Dirty, and I am tempted to be selfish and abandon the play, not before stating that it was satisfying, but not dazzling, and talk about my (latest) problems   One could be an egoiste is some interesting way – ‘the most selfish thing you can do is to...