*WARNING* Pitkä, analyyttinen teksti häämöttää edessäsi. Suositellaan etenkin kirjahurmion kokeneille. Belle et genereuse entreprise. Kauneus ja anteliaisuus olivat 1600-luvulla eläneen kirjastotutkijan Gabriel Naudén mielestä ihannekirjaston ominaisuuksia (Knapas 2012, s.15). Anteliaisuuden lisäksi kirjastoja kuvaillaan nykyisin saavutettavuudella ja avoimuudella, mutta kauneus ei ole jäänyt kirjastojen oleellisimmaksi ominaisuudeksi. Kauneus ei piirteenä sovi bibliofiilin ajattelutapaan, jossa kirjastot toimivat julkisina […]
Category: Books
The Equality Manifesto
I recently read the intriguing book The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better by Richard G. Wilkinson and Kate E. Pickett. The book gave me new insights about quality of life, consumerism, trust and equality – or the lack of it. Why some countries differ in their levels of trust, mental […]
Kirjaihastus: Eat Pray Love – Elizabeth Gilbert
“We search for happiness everywhere, but we are like Tolstoy’s fabled beggar who spent his life sitting on a pot of gold, under him the whole time. Your treasure–your perfection–is within you already. But to claim it, you must leave the buy commotion of the mind and abandon the desires of the ego and enter […]
BOOK REVIEW Metamorphosis: How and why we change by Polly Morland
Book on How and why we change by Polly Morland Metamorphosis This book is a real gem. Its a binding of different stories on change that are written almost lyrically. Like a cup of steaming soy vanilla latte, I sipped through this book, enjoying its stories, moments and inspirations. It is not for someone looking […]