![]() ![]() ![]() The extraordinary book has changed my life. Since then I am associated with the activities of Ananda in Kolkata and amd participating in its programmes. Immediately I registered for the classes and by the end of 2006 I became a kriyaban of Ananda. In 2004, I was transferred to Kolkata and the seed of desire of learning Kriya Yoga sprouted in April 2006, when I saw an ad of Ananda Sangha to learn kriya yoga. Subsequently I read the whole book and I kept reading from the book off and on. I was mesmerised by this chapter and the seed of desire to learn kriya yoga was sown in my heart. I had been doing hatha yoga and pranayam since adolescence and I had also read the book on Kundalini Yoga by Swami Satyananda Saraswati. Again after a gap of 3-4 months I read the chapter ‘The Science of Kriya Yoga’. Being a student of science I am attracted by scientific explanations. ![]() The chapter on ‘The law of Miracles’ attracted and engaged me much. After around 3-4 months I again started reading it from here and there. I read a few chapters and then put it aside thinking it is has too many of miracles.īut it always remained on by book shelf. I was 30 years old in 1992 when my boss gifted me the Autobiography of a Yogi as a prize for participating in a lecture competition. ![]()
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![]() The group of students reminded me of the group of young people from “Never Let Me Go” by Kazuo Ishiguro – mostly because of their isolation and group cohesion. On the other hand, there is a strong element of group psychology. On one hand there is focus on the individual characters, how each of them reacts to the events. ![]() The book has a complex psychological component. There is no movie after the book (yet) these portraits depict interestingly the main characters of the story Psychology Overall impressionĪ dark and modern “Crime and Punishment” type of story, “The Secret History” will keep you awake at night and will make your heart rush as if you’re part of the Classics group yourself! Apart from the murder mystery, the book touches upon many other topics such as alcohol and drugs, troubled families, suicide, but also status, romantic relationships, beauty, and Ancient Greece. ![]() It is a dark mind-blowing story of what happened before and after the murder, with a strong focus on the circumstances and the characters. Years after graduating, he recounts the events that led to the murder of Bunny, another member of the group (this information is disclosed in the first 2 pages, no spoilers). Richard, the most recent member of the group, is the narrator of the whole story. “The Secret History” tells the story of a small group of Classics students at Hampden College, an elitist school in Vermont, USA. ![]() The joy of taking pictures of a favourite book – priceless! The Secret History in a nutshell ![]() ![]() ![]() Flanagan’s novel may be brutal, but unlike Terzo and Anna – so ferociously determined 'to save their mother from her own wishes' – it is not wilfully cruel. at its best when it balances its vehemence with its beauty, when it leaves space for the reader to wander and wonder – eucalypt leaves swinging down like 'lazing scimitars' a moth thrumming its 'Persian rug' wings. What she does know is there is an intoxicating calm – a kind of existential grace – to be found at her mother’s bedside. Hailed on publication in Australia as Richard Flanagans greatest novel yet, The Living Sea of Waking Dreams is a rising ember storm illuminating what remains when the inferno beckons: one part elegy, one part dream, one part hope. ![]() Are her actions a ferocious form of love, sublimated guilt, or a fearful evasion of love’s most intimate and painful obligations? Anna does not know. The Living Sea of Waking Dreams follows Anna as she battles her mother’s decline, insisting on last-ditch therapies in the way only those with power and money can. And smouldering underneath it all is the red memory of last summer’s reign of fire. ![]() combines the moral righteousness of a fable, the wounded grief of a eulogy, and the fury of someone who still reads the news. ![]() ![]() ![]() If you can, please consider making a gift to The New York Public Library as we serve New Yorkers remotely. Click through to each book’s title for more. Summaries provided via NYPL’s catalog, which draws from multiple sources. The title of Geraldine Brooks’s new novel, Horse, alludes to Lexington: the real and extraordinary late-19th-century Kentucky bay stallion who drives its plot. Interested in more reading recommendations? Sign up for the Library's Book of the Day email. Visit our website for more details about placing holds and what to expect when visiting one of our open locations. The Library has begun to reopen our physical locations, with eight branches currently offering limited grab-and-go service. Learn more and download for iPad/iPhone and Android. Plus, new users who live in New York State can apply for a library card directly through the app. NYPL cardholders can find these books on SimplyE, the Library's free e-reader app. Jeffrey Brown talks to Pulitzer Prize-winning author Geraldine Brooks about her latest novel, Horse, for our arts and culture series, 'CANVAS.' Read the Full Transcript Judy Woodruff: A. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for People of the Book : A Novel by Geraldine Brooks (2008, Hardcover) at the best online prices at eBay. By the best-selling author of TransAtlantic. Two fathers, a Palestinian and an Israeli, navigate the physical and emotional checkpoints of their conflicted world before devastating losses compel them to work together to use their grief as a weapon for peace. ![]() |