SteemBookLoversMag, 22 June 2017
No. 2 | 22 June 2017
About SteemBookLoversMag
- We love diversity. Steemit blog posts should not be only limited to cypto, and tech, and money.
- We do most of our reading on the Internet. But there are some of us who never forget the books, the ancient and incredible media of knowledge, and pleasure.
- This is an experimental Steemit blogposts digest for everything about books.
- You may follow me ( @ygern ) or follow this tag #steembooklovers for updated contents. The authors of each blog posts would be glad to have your upvote, re-steem or follow.
- Enjoy reading.
7 Books that Changed My Life
by @alcibiades
Books can change lives. The transformational power of literature has helped build companies, start new careers, expand the knowledge or explore the unknown. They can inspire and bring new perspectives and wipe of the prejudices.
I took some time to think about the ones that truly inspired me or changed my life in a way. It's a mix of fiction and general knowledge or self help books. Let me know what you think.(read more......)
The prophet Gibran Khalil Gibran: books
by @mamaafrica
The prophet, a collection of aphorisms is a leading work of the Lebanese writer Gibran Khalil Gibran. Dealing with universal themes: love, death, marriage ... He exposes with poetry some delicious ideas on everyday life with a surprising simplicity woven into subtle metaphors.(read more......)
Last Book I Read: Corey Taylor - You're Making Me Hate You
by @ggorwell
This book is full of short essays about topics that make the author really mad. They are written in a very clever, funny and feisty way. Most topics circle around the ongoing stupefaction of mankind and it is a joy to experience the rage that Corey manages to channel in his book.
One of my favourite quotes of this book is as follows:(read more......)
Horror Review: In the Dark by Richard Laymon (1994, Leisure)
Richard Laymon never got the recognition he deserved in the US until it was too late, but he helped dozens of other authors navigate the perilous waters of publication. You’d never know it reading the stuff he penned, but Laymon’s reputation as being one of the nicest writers to walk the earth seems well-deserved. After a disastrous debacle with his third book, The Woods Are Dark, which suffered innumerable cuts, excessive re-writes, and deplorable changes by a stable of line editors from Warner Books, Laymon fell off the radar in the States for over a decade. Thankfully a stable publication run in the UK courtesy of Headline’s horror line kept him afloat and he was able to continue doing what he loved up until his death in 2001 from a sudden heart attack. Not even death could stop Laymon’s typewriter though, as his daughter and wife worked to see the remainder of his unpublished work given life, along with US re-issues of much of his material that was only readily available overseas.(read more......)
The Mississippi Flows into the Tiber Reviewed by Barbara E. Rose
Marshall McLuhan foretold that electronic technology would dominate modern culture. He is known as the prophet of the Information Age and the father of media studies. That he was a Catholic convert is not well known. At the same time, it isn’t surprising, given his philosophy and his ideas. Raised Baptist, McLuhan moved toward the Catholic faith while studying at Cambridge; he cites reading G.K. Chesterton as his turning point. McLuhan became a popular public intellectual, sought after on college campuses and visited by the likes of John Lennon and Yoko Ono. All the while, he lived a devout, sacrament-centered life, urged the preaching of hellfire, and even lamented post-Vatican II changes to the Mass — the priest looking at the congregation “with his face hanging out” and the use of microphones, which completely changed the focus of the liturgy. McLuhan applied his famous aphorism to the faith. “In Jesus Christ,” he wrote, “there is no distance or separation between the medium and the message. It’s the one case where we can say that the medium and the message are fully one and the same.”
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