People are always asking me what I am reading this month, well no one actually asks me that for some reason, I just like to think they do. But even though my main job is to sell discount books here at shop-books.ca I do read many of the books that pass through. After all I love reading too going from collector to seller was a bit of a process and a story for another time). So, here in no particular order, are the books I am trying to get through this month: Eifelheim by Michael Flynn A brilliant, and I don't often use that word, first contact story set in two time frames, medieval Germany and present day USA. I will be doing a  short review of this. The Colossus of Maroussi by Henry Miller Miller's travel book about his trip to Greece just before World War 2 broke out, is a gale of words, almost stream of consciousness, storm of a book. Not for all but for lovers of Miller's verbal high volume ejections, it's great. On Gurdjieff by Garrett Thomson Not sure I will be able to get to this one before October is out but I will try. Although G.I. Gurdjieff's spiritual philosophy of work on one's habits resonates with me, I somewhat distrust his method of belittlement, if I can call it that. I admit to a cursory knowledge of his methods so I am reading this one to get more familiar and be able to speak more intelligently about it.

travel now due to the pandemic and many of us can’t travel at all, I thought I’d put together a personal list Botton Alain de Botton tells one story of a trip to Amsterdam and writes,” I stopped by a red front De Botton explores thoughts on anticipation, curiosity, beauty, and habit and suggests how we might be Further reading and also highly recommended (some via my Amazon Associates link): Video Nights in Kathmandu Alone: Travel Tales From Around the Globe edited by Faith Conlon, Ingrid Emerick and Christina Henry de

This list hopefully utilizes the second approach (with a dash of the third).

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