Rodolpho Arruda

Tag: books

  • Slow Reading Books

    Slow reading books is a joy. I’m rereading the entire Dune Chronicles, and I’m doing it slowly. At the time of this writing I’m reading the first book, Dune, alongside a handful of other books I’m reading for the first time. The main reason I can read slow is because all the typical “reader’s expectations”…

  • Como Educar Sua Mente – Lista de Livros

    Lista atualizada em 2016 (versão em inglês) Ficção: Dom Quixote – Miguel De CervantesO Peregrino – John BunyanAs Viagens de Gulliver – Jonathan SwiftOrgulho e Preconceito – Jane AustenOliver Twist – Charles DickensJane Eyre – Charlotte BronteA Letra Escarlate – Nathaniel HawthorneMoby Dick – Herman MelvilleA Cabana do Pai Tomás – Harriet Beecher StoweMadame Bovary…

  • Ninguém mais compra livros no Brasil (2023)

    Eu fiz minha parte.

  • Dune Chronicles – ☑ read

    Dune Chronicles – ☑ read

    In the beginning I had no idea there was actually a book series. I thought Dune was a single book. I couldn’t be more mistaken; or misinformed about it. As soon as I started reading the first book I had to find my way through the universe of Dune. I looked at the encyclopedia in…

  • Dealing with fear

    Dealing with fear

    I’ve got and interesting insight from Laurence Endersen’s “Pebbles of Perception” about how we could be dealing with a type of fear we feel that is based solely on immaterial things, thoughts or ideas. The fear which resides only in our head. In contrast to this type of fear, the most obvious type of fear…