It's spring in your reading choices too March 24, 2023 – Posted in: Books – Tags: book, elite, acid
It's good to burn with series on Netflix, great to scroll on your mobile but it's spring... open a book too! Small, elegant, beautiful, the books of the series Selections of Oxy editions they are constantly updated so you don't get bored and to enrich your collection. Special titles, classic, subversive, with a variety of themes that cover all your reading needs, they are your ideal companion for your walks in the parks, for the break between your obligations, your first spring trips or escapes, but also on your daily routes .
As spring will begin to make its presence more and more intense, you will also see your rhythms slowly change. And as the temperatures rise, your mind will continue to flirt with summer. But since wise children cook before they are hungry, we will not give you ideas for cooking but for another kind of enjoyment. That of reading.
You may be overtired with the crazy rhythms of everyday life and from hours of screen time watching stars, that's why we're here to suggest you seven little treasures that will help your mind relax after a hard day at the office, after a tiring car ride or that will offer you a pleasant alternative to scrolling and promise to rest your eyes from blue light or long hours of contact with your screen.
Reading books benefits both your physical and mental health, and these benefits can last a lifetime. They start in early childhood and continue until the third age. Here's a brief explanation of how reading books can change your brain – and your body – for the better:
Reading strengthens your brain
It increases your capacity for empathy
It builds your vocabulary
Helps prevent age-related cognitive decline
It reduces stress
It sets you up for a good night's rest
It helps relieve the symptoms of depression
It may even help you live longer
For this spring, in order to make your choice easier, we recommend 7 of the new diamonds from the Epilecta series of Oxy editions.
"The value of imagination to the writer consists in its ability to make words. Its only power is to give created forms reality, true existence... ... The writer of fiction would find himself freed from observing things for the purpose of recording them later. He would be there to enjoy, to taste, to mingle with the free world, not with a world that carries him around like a bag of food, always in fear of falling or someone else taking more than him…”
Poetry, essay, revolutionary proclamation, fevered monologue or exciting hybrid literary genre? The "And together with spring" by William Carlos Williams elevates the imagination to power and certainly succeeds in crafting a writing that suits spring, rebirth and innovation and remains fresh, unconventional, groundbreaking and relevant even though it was only written in 1923.
"It is very important when you have a new idea, not to rush to judge it. New and "unripe" ideas should not be attacked by your rational mind until they have had time to mature, become clearer and more robust. New ideas are like little animals. They are very easily strangled."
Do you feel your inspiration drying up, your creativity constantly diminishing? Our era, with its pressing rhythms and anxiety, despite the infinite stimuli and the easy access to every form of art, could easily be described as counterproductive and in a world where we think that everything has been said and there is no parthenogenesis, how easy it is to be creative and generate new ideas?
This book by the scintillating John Cleese, of the legendary Monty Python, even if it doesn't put you in a creative rut, it's such a fun read that it's sure to give you an uplifting boost. Concise, written with humor and wit, the "Blind Guide to Creativity" it will open your eyes and help you to make your everyday life more creative.
"The search leads us to that source which is at once the essence of intelligence, virtue and life, that which we call Spontaneity or Instinct. I call this primal wisdom Bi-sense, while all subsequent teachings are bi-teachings. In this profound force, the ultimate truth, behind which analysis cannot go, all things find their common origin. Because, the sense of existence that emerges in the hours of tranquility, unknown how, in the soul, is not separate from things, from space, from light, time and man, but one with them and obviously comes from the same source from which their life and existence come."
Author of the book "Self confidence" is Ralph Waldo Emerson, one of the most influential thinkers of the 19th century, a leading figure of the transcendentalist movement. Although written in 1841, it exudes an incredible freshness and remains so modern and relevant, as it reflects on fear and the meaning of life but with a hopeful and non-conformist lens that its perspective really creates a positive effect on you.
"Could I forget the precious half of the republic, which is the happiness of the other half, and whose sweetness and wisdom preserve peace and good manners there? Dear and virtuous citizens, it will always be the fate of your sex to rule ours. Best wishes! When your pure authority, exercised only within the conjugal union, serves the glory of the State and the public happiness. This is how women ruled in Sparta and this is how you deserve to rule in Geneva."
We are in 2023 and yet the issue of equality continues to preoccupy us with steps being taken backwards and not forwards. Jean-Jacques Rousseau's ground-breaking treatise, although written in 1754, remains sharply enlightening today. The "On Inequality" sheds light on the nature of man and deals with fundamental philosophical questions whose answers continue to concern us.
The painted tombs of Tarquinia
"This sense of energy, of physical vigor, is characteristic of the Etruscans and in a way extends beyond art. Art does not come to your mind, but only the life of the Etruscans itself, dancing with colored fabrics and huge but joyful naked bodies, rosy from the air and the light of the sea, dancing and music among the olive trees, in the sweet day".
Can a tour of burial monuments become a brilliant tour of the celebration of life? The answer is positive, if this route is made with the charismatic pen of DH Lawrence, who in his text "The Painted Tombs of Tarquinia" he manages to convey his enthusiasm and makes his description so vivid that he offers us an enjoyable journey into an amazing ancient Italian civilization that flourished 2,500 years ago.
"From that moment on, it was as if he were complete in existence, as if he were married, as if he had someone by his side, as if he were not alone, but some pleasant good friend had agreed to go forward together in life, and this friend had agreed to go forward together in life, and that friend was none other than that coat, which would be made of thick woolen cloth and strong lining, brand new. It was as if she gave him a way of life, even stability, and he looked like a man who knows what he wants and pursues his goals."
On the occasion of a garment, a utilitarian object, this classic text by Nikolai Gogol, written in 1842, achieves a substantial immersion in the human psyche while at the same time dealing with issues such as justice, power, social relations. The timeless absurdity of our society through a ridiculous prism does "The coat" enjoyable and always relevant.
“Oh! foolish authority to the eminent of art do you treat with ingratitude? Have you not learned from mime the subtleties of gesture? From the orator in the month of demagoguery? Of the poets the member Lektion of eloquence? As an eboa and a curse for you, didn't the state cut off the blood of mime or advocacy? Don't you owe your body's strength to those begging and agyrto eutolmian prayers?
Although his speech seems to belong to the past, it is completely of the time and looks towards the future... A special case of the Greek rock & roll music scene, Georges Pilali started his career in the mid-70s as a guitarist and performer. A satirical poet, playwright, composer and performer, he has since focused on the creation of rebetika and blues music fusion, introducing elements of modern classical music into swing and blues. He has collaborated with many artists of the domestic and international scene such as Pavlos Sidiropoulos, Dimitris Poulikakos, Bob Brozman and Louisiana Red. In 2017 his name was inscribed in the American Blues Hall of Fame. THE "Hooliganism" it's a verbal extravaganza, a slow-burning firework that makes your mind explode with its bravado and unpredictable brashness.
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