Last week we had some more new members joining in!
While we tried having some type of genre last Saturday, apparently only a few read Self-help and self-improvement books. So, in order to accommodate more people for 17th of May, we won’t be having any theme or specified genre, just come hangout and talk about your reads.
🎗️ Reminder
If you want to talk, you can simply unmute yourself and start talking. However, please be respectful when others talk and just use some common sense. We don’t have that many rules.
Last week, I also organized a simple giveaway and
@olujay won 5 hive from the hive book club. So, don’t miss out on these as I or hive book club like to organize these.
Thank you to everyone who tunes in and catch you this Saturday!
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These past few days I am starting to get back into reading and I am trying to crunch some books that I have put off for a while. I wonder if I will ever read as fast as I used to and somehow time flies and before I know it, they are gone.
From Projectgutenberg One book that currently captivated me is Walden by Henry David Thoreau. You can read it for free on project gutenberg. The book is about Thoreau’s experience living in the woods in a house he built for himself and consumed what he also grew. It was an experience contrasting his convenience at the city during that time and as much as I don’t know how it has impacted people but there’s certainty that he could be the person who inspired people to live off-the-grid, disconnect, and reinvent themselves.
At the same time, though time has changed, I find a lot of relevance in his writings and I laughed so hard especially on this excerpt and the following one.
Some of you, we all know, are poor, find it hard to live, are sometimes, as it were, gasping for breath. I have no doubt that some of you who read this book are unable to pay for all the dinners which you have actually eaten, or for the coats and shoes which are fast wearing or are already worn out, and have come to this page to spend borrowed or stolen time, robbing your creditors of an hour.
To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust. It is to solve some of the problems of life, not only theoretically, but practically.
While you can continue the journey reading a more detailed description, in the book there was this conclusion that tells you alot why he did what he did. I haven’t finished the whole account but I did finish the conclusion 😅 that one is packed with wisdom and a lot of things that though we may know but forgets along the way.
I suppose I'll try to finish it by the end of the week and bring that book to this Saturday’s chat. See you there!
