As some of you may have noticed, there aren’t many self-help books in this bookshop (and those we have ended up here quite accidentally). This is because we don’t like self-help books. Our forefathers never needed self-help books, probably because they didn’t need as much “self-help”. And even if they did, “self-help” books aren’t usually […]
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Imagine All The People: A Conversation with the Dalai Lama
I always feel uncomfortable when people ask me, “What’s the last book you read?”. I can never ever answer the question because of this nasty habit of mine which I’ve been trying to break for years – the habit of starting 15 books at the same time (quite literally, no exaggeration here) and never finishing […]
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Rashomon has always been one of my favourite stories. My first encounter with it was my viewing of Akira Kurosawa’s film of the same title, which I have placed in its entirety here, thanks to Youtube. The film (and short story) is essentially about the difficulty of finding out the truth about a rape and […]
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