eBooks Cafe

📚 5 books to understand war 1️⃣ All Quiet on the Western Front ✍️ Erich Maria Remarque

We are little flames poorly sheltered by frail walls against the storm of dissolution and madness, in which we flicker and sometimes almost go out.

2️⃣ The Things They Carried ✍️ Tim O'Brien

A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth.

3️⃣ Catch-22 ✍️ Joseph Heller

Morale was deteriorating and it was all Yossarian's fault. The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.

4️⃣ The Book Thief ✍️ Markus Zusak

It kills me sometimes, how people die.

5️⃣ War and Peace ✍️ Leo Tolstoy

We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.

Daily quotes from books like these: @Audiobooks_collection @ebookscafe

Luck is a percentage that increases with the number of people who know what you do and how well you do it @ebookscafe

Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand. Dan Brown, Angels & Demons @ebookscafe

They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince @ebookscafe

Consuming content is the new poverty. Creating content is the new wealth. @ebookscafe

I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity. F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby @ebookscafe

📚 5 books for when you cannot sleep 1️⃣ Why We Sleep ✍️ Matthew Walker

The best bridge between despair and hope is a good night’s sleep.

2️⃣ Say Good Night to Insomnia ✍️ Gregg Jacobs

One final word of caution about caffeine: make sure your children don’t drink caffeinated beverages in the afternoon. When a child drinks a can of cola, the caffeine intake is comparable to four cups of coffee for an adult.

3️⃣ The Sleep Solution ✍️ W. Chris Winter

Sleep is not the absence of wakefulness. In other words, sleep is not a light switch in your brain that is either on or off. Your body is doing amazing things at night while you sleep.

4️⃣ Breath ✍️ James Nestor

It’s how I fill the time when nothing’s happening. Thinking too much, flirting with melancholy.

5️⃣ Wintering ✍️ Katherine May

We have seasons when we flourish and seasons when the leaves fall from us, revealing our bare bones. Given time, they grow again.

@ebookscafe

Studying history is a form of leverage - Charlie Munger @ebookscafe

You have about four thousand weeks

An average life lasts around 4,000 weeks. Put like that, it is not very long. No productivity system will ever let you do everything. The inbox will never be empty. The relief comes from accepting that, then choosing on purpose what to neglect so you can give real time to what matters.

Book: Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman @ebookscafe

📚 5 more books Christopher Hitchens recommends

Compiled from public recommendations.

1️⃣ Brideshead Revisited ✍️ Evelyn Waugh

I have a good mind not to take Aloysius to Venice. I don't want him to meet a lot of horrid Italian bears and pick up bad habits.

2️⃣ Lady Chatterley's Lover ✍️ D.H. Lawrence

A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.

3️⃣ The Bonfire of the Vanities ✍️ Tom Wolfe

Your self…is other people, all the people you're tied to, and it's only a thread.

4️⃣ The Pity of It All ✍️ Amos Elon

The patience of the oppressed has always been the most inexplicable, as well as probably the most important, fact in all of history.

5️⃣ A Tale of Two Cities ✍️ Charles Dickens

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.

@ebookscafe

📚 5 books to stop overthinking 1️⃣ The Power of Now ✍️ Eckhart Tolle

I have lived with several Zen masters -- all of them cats.

2️⃣ The Untethered Soul ✍️ Michael A. Singer

There is nothing more important to true growth than realizing that you are not the voice of the mind - you are the one who hears it.

3️⃣ Meditations ✍️ Marcus Aurelius

Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.

4️⃣ Feeling Good ✍️ David D. Burns

Achievements can bring you satisfaction but not happiness.

5️⃣ The Courage to Be Disliked ✍️ Ichiro Kishimi

Your unhappiness cannot be blamed on your past or your environment. And it isn’t that you lack competence. You just lack courage. One might say you are lacking in the courage to be happy.

Daily quotes from books like these: @Audiobooks_collection @ebookscafe

I love you as certain dark things are loved, secretly, between the shadow and the soul. Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets @ebookscafe

Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book. John Green, The Fault in Our Stars @ebookscafe

She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live. Annie Dillard, The Living @ebookscafe

📚 5 books to fall back in love with reading 1️⃣ The Midnight Library ✍️ Matt Haig

It is quite a revelation to discover that the place you wanted to escape to is the exact same place you escaped from. That the prison wasn't the place, but the perspective.

2️⃣ The Alchemist ✍️ Paulo Coelho

The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.

3️⃣ The Little Prince ✍️ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.

4️⃣ The Book Thief ✍️ Markus Zusak

It kills me sometimes, how people die.

5️⃣ To Kill a Mockingbird ✍️ Harper Lee

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

@ebookscafe

Deep work is becoming rare, which is why it is valuable

Most of the day now goes to shallow work: messages, meetings, quick replies that feel productive. The work that actually moves a career forward needs long stretches of focus with no interruptions. Protect a few hours a day for it. In a distracted world, the person who can concentrate wins by default.

Book: Deep Work by Cal Newport @ebookscafe

📚 5 books to read with your morning coffee

A few pages a day.

1️⃣ Meditations ✍️ Marcus Aurelius

Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.

2️⃣ The Daily Stoic ✍️ Ryan Holiday

We want things to go perfectly, so we tell ourselves that we'll get started once the conditions are right...it'd be better to focus on making do with how things actually are...

3️⃣ The Prophet ✍️ Kahlil Gibran

You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.

4️⃣ Tao Te Ching ✍️ Lao Tzu

When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everyone will respect you.

5️⃣ Letters from a Stoic ✍️ Seneca

A woman is not beautiful when her ankle or arm wins compliments, but when her total appearance diverts admiration from the individual parts of her body.

@ebookscafe

📚 5 of the best Literary Love Stories

Chosen by Lily King.

1️⃣ Persuasion ✍️ Jane Austen

Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one, and ignorance in another, can hardly have much truth left.

2️⃣ Tess of the d’Urbervilles ✍️ Thomas Hardy

My life looks as if it had been wasted for want of chances!

3️⃣ Brooklyn ✍️ Colm Tóibín

In the morning, she was not sure that she had slept as much as lived a set of vivid dreams, letting them linger so that she would not have to open her eyes and see the room.

4️⃣ Man Gone Down: A Novel ✍️ Michael Thomas 5️⃣ The Evening of the Holiday ✍️ Shirley Hazzard @ebookscafe

In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art. Rumi @ebookscafe