M y quest of Self-help books brought me this gem. I've read the prequel (The Subtle Art of Not Giving A F*ck) around last year which was eye-opening. It gave me a lot of things to think about and to find that answers, I found myself reading this book and needless to say, this book took me on an amazing journey. It presented me with the answers that I didn't know I was looking for in the first place which was yet another mind-altering experience. ABOUT THE BOOK As the title of the book suggests, the book is about 'Hope' and how we as humans, try to grab onto every little thing which can provide us with hope. Mark highlights that life without hope is " cold " and a " bleak nihilism " which brings us endless suffering and indirectly force us to cling onto false narratives of hope. He points out that in order to have the light of positive hope, we first need to trust our ability to tell wrong from the right. Mark also shed some light on how our ...
I found this book while I was surfing through my Instagram, wondering what to read next. This time around, I did read the summary before. The story seemed catching and so I decided to read it. Summary Love and Other Words by Christina Lauren is a love story about two best friends who have known eachother since when they were kids. They develop a surreal bond over their love for reading. Spending weekends together in their closet which is nothing less than a sanctuary for them, they promise to be each other's first and cherish their friendship their entire life but torn by destiny and drifted apart by misunderstanding, they lose touch of the reality and drifts apart. The blow of loosing her father leaves Macy broken. Hurt by Elliot's drunken mistake, Macy runs away from everything with a promise to never look back But time brings them together once again and this time around, Macy can't run away About the characters Macy Sorensen , grew up in a loving household. She alway...