3/5 Stars (%53/100)
It was okay-ish to good. I've read for one of my classes. Here's more or less what I wrote in a paper:
James Baldwin’s 1955 collection of essays Notes of a Native Son is similar to the works of Sartre and de Beauvoir in the sense that he also compares Europe and America. However, Baldwin mostly focuses on the issues of race that he observed during his stay in Paris. In “Encounter on the Seine: Black Meets Brown”, Baldwin explains that it is more difficult for black people to become successful in Paris in the 1950s compared to the roaring 1920s. He says that only black people are able to maintain a good relationship with black artists. Because the white Americans distrust black Americans, racial differentiation becomes more prominent in Paris.
Baldwin also talks about the relationship between Africans living in Paris and African American people. He explains this conflict by saying “They face each other, the Negro and the African, over a gulf of three hundred years—an alienation too vast to be conquered in an evening’s good-will, too heavy and too double-edged ever to be trapped in speech” (Baldwin 112). Both sides need to work hard to understand each other, according to Baldwin, and because America is constantly changing, the American identity also changes. However, he believes that “What time will bring Americans is at last their own identity” (113). Even though this essay focuses on black people and their experience, it still has some similarities to the previously-mentioned texts because Baldwin also talks about Americanism and the difficulty of establishing an American identity. Also, just as Europeans, like de Beauvoir or Sartre, find Americans strange, Americans, especially black Americans like Baldwin himself, seem to find Europeans strange
Sonsuz/10
Unquestionably the best book of my year, it was so GOOD!!!
How can I read another book after this magnificient piece of writing?
The Reaper and The Emperor… These books are everything I wanted and more, they couldn’t be written any more perfect. I love Dante & Amara and I love Tristan & Morana, I can’t choose between these couples. Dante caring for Amara after her intense trauma :’( These books will stay with me forever…
“You’re not going to walk through life, Amara,” he uttered roughly, each word a vow that cemented itself in her heart. “You’ll dance through it. And I’ll fucking remove anyone who tries to break your rhythm. I promise you.”
0-30p: Kontrollü okuyucu 📖
40-70p: Hafif bağımlı 👀
80p+: Geçmiş olsun, kitaplar seni ele geçirmiş 😅
“You’re not going to walk through life, Amara,” he uttered roughly, each word a vow that cemented itself in her heart. “You’ll dance through it. And I’ll fucking remove anyone who tries to break your rhythm. I promise you.”
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He pressed his forehead to hers for a second, saying the words he’d told her countless times over the years. “You’re the beat to my heart, Amara.”
“And you’re mine,” she replied, her voice barely audible, her words tattooed on his skin.
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Ben bu çifte kalbimi bıraktım… Amara ve Dante🫠🫠
You’re both the beat to my heart, yani kalbim sizin. İkisinin de yaşamak zorunda kaldıkları şeyler içim kalbim parçalandı. Ve birbirlerine tutunarak iyileşmeleri de kırıklarımı altınla birleştirdi. Senelerce süren gölgelerde saklanmak, aşklarının gücü, karşılaştıkları zorluklar ve kendi mutlu sonlarını bulmaları… Onları daha fazla okumak için sabırsızlanıyorum🫠
4/5 Stars (%75/100)
I really liked it and I could say some parts of the book actually made me open my eyes to certain situations in my life. The book was recommended to me by the YouTube channel "Kurzgesagt" and I wanted to check it out and see if it could help me or not. I did not have any expectations as I don't really like reading self-help books nor I enjoy them when I do read. I really liked that Winch is very straightforward about how he presents his ideas.
It goes like this: Psychological injury is introduced, how it actually injures you, many examples are given from real life, and finally some tips for treating the injury. The structure is the same for all 7 of these injuries. I highlighted many parts and I will probably come back to the book from time to time. I also plan to use some of these treatments for myself and also for people I care about. Here's a short summary but I would highly suggest you to read it yourself because these cannot be explained in few sentences. Winch did a great job with the treatment sections.
1-Rejection: The Emotional Cuts and Scrapes of Daily Life
Treatments:
-Argue with self-criticism
-Revive your self-worth
-Replenish feelings of social connection
-Desensitize yourself
2-Loneliness: Relationship Muscle Weakens
Treatments:
-Remove your negatively tinted glasses
-Identify your self-defeating behaviors
-Take on the other person's perspective
-Deepen your emotional bonds
-Create opportunities for social connection
-Adopt a best friend
3-Loss and Trauma: Walking on Broken Bones
Treatments:
-Soothe your emotional pain your way
-Recover lost aspects of your self
-Find meaning in tragedy
4-Guilt: The Poison in Our System
Treatments:
İngilizce severler buraya :)Edebiyat
Sexing the Cherry
Postmodernism has become an important part of our life and culture in many ways. Although it is a very common word in today's world, it cannot be expressed as a complete definition. Postmodernism is known for its rebellious approach and willingness to test boundaries. It is an indisputable fact that the word ‘master narrative’ which is so popular among people has collapsed. According to Jean François Lyotard , the postmodern concept is the total expression of a process that includes both changes in material conditions and breaks in the intellectual field. First of all, it is a deep disbelief, or in other words, a radical suspicion.
It is a skepticism of modernity and is concerned with the basic notions of an entire modern project. Lyotard traces and makes sense of this suspicion. In other words, ıt is determined that a dozen concepts related to modernism,called great narrative, such as progress, enlightenment, rationality, freedom, universality are not believable. We can call the new lifestyle that started with this state of doubt postmodernism. Therefore, it is not possible to believe in a single truth, a mere mind, a universal life position and it is impossible to believe that history and progress is a single and universal aspect and to theoretically base it. Undoubtedly, literature is one of the most critical area influenced by postmodernism. One of the most important figures to be categorized as both absurdist and postmodern is Samuel Beckett. A list of postmodern authors often varies; the following are some names of authors often so classified, most of them belonging to the generation born in the interwar period: William Burroughs (1914-1997) Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007), John Barth (b. 1930), Donald Barthelme (1931-1989), E. L. Doctorow (b.
Kitabın dili ve biraz da araştırma ödevimle alakalı olduğu için bu inceleme İngilizce olacak, umarım sonrasında güzel bir inceleme daha yazabilirim, tabi ki Türkçe olarak... Ilgilisine ve meraklısına güzel ve açıklayıcı bir özet şeklinde bir inceleme olduğunu düşünüyorum. (Özet derken... Sanırım o kadar da özet değil. :’) )
Şunu da belirtmek istiyorum yine de, bu kitabı okurken o sıralarda hayatın anlamıyla ilgili araştırma yapan ve rapor yazacak bir arkadaşım vardı. Ama yazdıkları intihar, düşüncesi ve buna meyiili (suicidal) insanlardan oluşuyordu nerdeyse. Aslında kitabın başında, ön sözde Frankl'ın “Neden intihar etmiyorsunuz?” sorusu yer alır. Bu da zaten anlam arayışında ilk basamaklardan birinde olduğumuzun, aslında verdiğimiz cevaplarla da bir kapıyı araladığımızın, hatta bazen ardına kadar açabildiğimizin farkına varmamız içindir. Anlam ve ölümün işte bu kadar yakın, bu kadar iç içe olduğunu hissettirmişti bu da bana. Bu incelemeyi o arkadaşım için yapmak istemiştim.
MAN'S SEARCH FOR MEANING
Man's search for meaning was written by psychiatrist and neurologist Victor E. Frankl (1905-1997). It was first published in German in 1946 just one year after the end of World War II. The book consists of two parts and a postscript, the first part is "Experiences in a Concentration Camp" which is autobigraphical, a story of author's life. His observations and experiences of the Holocaust, while he was in Auschwitz. The second part which is the part that includes one of Frankl's theory "Lagotheraphy in a Nutshell". What is Lagotheraphy and what its diffrences from psychoanalysis? And the postscript's name is "The Case for a Tragic Optimism".
In the first part, Frankl mentioned about three stages that for people who are in the camp process. These are the period
