They do their research and are more active in their investments. The book talks about two types of investors, Defensive or Passive investors, and enterprising or active investors.ĭefensive investors are careful and conservative investors that are primarily focused on minimizing risks and preserving capital while enterprising investors dedicate time and effort to analyzing and selecting stocks. Let us understand the investing principles & lessons that the book talks about: The book remains one of the most popular and insightful books on investing. Benjamin Graham started teaching the ‘value investing principle that he describe in the book at the Columbia Business School in 1928. Initially published in 1949, it has been known as the ‘ value investing bible’ in the investment world. Yes, we are talking about “The Intelligent Investor” by Benjamin Graham. Warren Buffett even went on to say, “ By far the best book on investing ever written.” Today we are going to be discussing a book that has been followed by legendary investors like Warren Buffet, Irving Kahn, and Walter Schloss. But there are only a few books that can truly say that it has been written by experts. You can find a plethora of books giving investment & financial advice each claiming to have been written by experts. There is no shortage of books on investment, markets, or finance.
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6/8/2023 0 Comments Pushkin eugene oneginIn taking up this world-weary attitude, he is very much like the English Byronic heroes that he enjoys reading about. Onegin becomes bored and disdainful of the high-society partying life he had led all his youth. "The spleen is what the English call it, /We call it simply Russian soul." pg. He leaves for the countryside in hopes to find a better life but ends up finding it just as boring. Having wasted his youth in dissipation to the point that he has become utterly desensitized and jaded to parties, Onegin yawns at everything. The novel begins with Onegin complaining about the boredom of taking care of his sick uncle, who will soon pass away leaving him the provincial manor. "But God, what deadly boredom, brothers, /To tend a sick man night a day,/ Not daring once to steal away!" pg. 6/8/2023 0 Comments A feast for crows 2005The war, which raged out of control for so long, has burned itself out.īut as in the aftermath of any climactic struggle, it is not long before the survivors, outlaws, renegades, and carrion eaters start to gather, picking over the bones of the dead and fighting for the spoils of the soon-to-be dead. Few legitimate claims to the once desperately sought Iron Throne still exist-or they are held in hands too weak or too distant to wield them effectively. Robb Stark’s demise has broken the back of the Northern rebels, and his siblings are scattered throughout the kingdom like seeds on barren soil. With the death of the monstrous King Joffrey, Cersei is ruling as regent in King’s Landing. After centuries of bitter strife and fatal treachery, the seven powers dividing the land have decimated one another into an uneasy truce. only to be launched on an even more terrifying course of destruction. Now, in A Feast for Crows, Martin delivers the long-awaited fourth book of his landmark series, as a kingdom torn asunder finds itself at last on the brink of peace. Martin’s monumental epic cycle of high fantasy. Few books have captivated the imagination and won the devotion and praise of readers and critics everywhere as has George R. 6/8/2023 0 Comments Dark torment by karen robardsLora, a teacher in a quiet town, engaged to a Mathematics teacher at her school, had been nursing her paralyzed mother for ten years or so, and was trying to enjoy a long awaited vacation after her mother dies of pneumonia leaving both her children with a bit of money, allowing Lora to splurge a bit on herself for a change. Max married previously, fought in the Vietnam war, and carries the emotional baggage of a war that turned pretty ugly. This book starts when Lora, who is on vacation in Mexico, finds herself kidnapped at gun point by Max who is on the run for his life from the Mexican authorities. Writing the review for Island Flame and thinking about the book Wild Orchids, which I had previously read twice, made me stop the book Sea Fire in the middle (the second book in the Pirates series) to read Wild Orchids once again, and sigh… I wasn’t disappointed! So here is my review for this special book, which most probably, I would end up reading AGAIN sometime in the near future. For those who have read my last review (Island Flame by Karen Robards), I mentioned that the most favorite book of mine by this author is Wild Orchids which was the second book of this author that I tried. 6/7/2023 0 Comments S beckett waiting for godotThe first thing an audience may notice about Waiting For Godot is that they are immediately set up for a comedy. This is demonstrated in the progression of dialogue and action in each of the two acts in Godot. The structure of Waiting For Godot is determined by Beckett’s use of repetition. He repeats phrases, ideas, and actions that have his audience come away with many different ideas about who we are and how beautiful our human existence is even in our desperation. That is to say, Beckett is not interested in the reader interpreting his words, but simply listening to the words and viewing the actions of his perfectly mismatched characters.īeckett uses the standard Vaudevillian style to present a play that savors the human condition. Godot is an existentialist play that reads like somewhat of a language poem. “Nothing to be done,” is one of the many phrases that is repeated again and again throughout Samuel Beckett’s Waiting For Godot. 6/7/2023 0 Comments Caesar by colleen mcculloughMany of its details were drawn from her mother's family's experience as migrant workers, and one character, Dane, was based on brother Carl. As always, the author proved her toughest critic: "Actually," she said, "it was an icky book, saccharine sweet."Ī year later, while on a paltry $10,000 annual salary as a Yale researcher, McCullough – just "Col" to her friends – began work on the sprawling The Thorn Birds, about the lives and loves of three generations of an Australian family. She finally returned to her craft in 1974 with Tim, a critically acclaimed novel about the romance between a female executive and a younger, mentally disabled gardener. She found jobs first in London and then at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.Īfter her beloved younger brother Carl died in 1965 at age 25 while rescuing two drowning women in the waters off Crete, a shattered McCullough quit writing. Planning become a doctor, she found that she had a violent allergy to hospital soap and turned instead to neurophysiology – the study of the nervous system's functions. She flourished at Catholic schools and earned a physiology degree from the University of New South Wales in 1963. Raised by her mother in Wellington and then Sydney, McCullough began writing stories at age 5. Colleen Margaretta McCullough was an Australian author known for her novels, her most well-known being The Thorn Birds and Tim. People weren’t supposed to know about her because they might try to take her magic dust. A dwarf named Ruburt and ….” I stopped, remembering that Ruburt had told Cassi to stay hidden. I didn’t want to cry about my past, especially not in front of the duchess. “No, I was orphaned years ago, and I now live on my own,” I said. “Have you a mother, a father, or any relatives?” Young women don’t just fall out of the sky.” Lady Hannah set the glass on the table and laced her hands together. But, we need to return you to where you belong. “I assure you, that will not be necessary. Lady Hannah reached for her water goblet on the table next to the bed. “Your staff has cared for me, and I want to repay you for the kindness.” Lady Hannah lowered the magnifying glass and said, “My sons informed me you were severely damaged, but you appear in good health.” 6/7/2023 0 Comments Sequel to i am pilgrimDelivers thrills and spills.A full tilt mix of Homeland, The Wire and The Bourne Ultimatum" Mail on Sunday "Rendition yourself into a pulsating thriller that never lets up as it carries the hero and the reader on an ever more desperate race between time and an all too plausible disaster for the world we live in. The Pilgrim headed the ultra secret organization which ran the top level spies. An overhaul of the intelligence and security services was inevitable. ~ A lot of things changed after the 9/11 terrorist attack and many people were scarred for life. One path links them all, and only one man can make the journey. A flawless plot to commit an appalling crime against humanity. Smoldering human remains on a remote mountainside in Afghanistan. A notorious Syrian biotech expert found eyeless in a Damascus junkyard. A father publicly beheaded in the blistering heat of a Saudi Arabian public square. An anonymous young woman murdered in a run-down hotel, all identifying characteristics dissolved by acid. Critics are calling I AM PILGRIM: "Unputdownable." -Booklist "The best book of 2014." -Suspense Magazine "The next Girl with the Dragon Tattoo." -The New York Post A breakneck race against time.and an implacable enemy. 6/6/2023 0 Comments Camera obscura barthes'Effortlessly, as if in passing, his reflections on photography raise questions and doubts which will permanently affect the vision of the reader' Guardian Strikingly personal, yet one of the most important early academic works on photography, Camera Lucida remains essential reading for anyone interested in the power of images. He was grieving for his mother at the time of writing. Then, as Barthes contemplates a photograph of his mother as a child, the book becomes an exposition of his own mind. This is a special Vintage Design Edition, with fold-out cover and stunning photography throughout.Įxamining themes of presence and absence, these reflections on photography begin as an investigation into the nature of photographs - their content, their pull on the viewer, their intimacy. Barthes personal investigation into the meaning of photographs is a seminal work of critical theory of the twentieth century.īarthes investigation into the meaning of photographs is a seminal work of twentieth-century critical theory. An inquiry into a very modern art form - photography. Calvocoressi will read from Rocket Fantastic, the third book of poetry from the associate professor at UNC Chapel Hill. She’ll be joined by the week’s poet-in-residence Gabrielle Calvocoressi, an award-winning poet, professor and editor at large at the Los Angeles Review of Books. EDT Sunday, July 12, on the Virtual Porch, Henderson will give a reading from a work-in-progress memoir, prospectively titled Everything I Have Is Yours, which details Henderson’s 20-year relationship with her husband. “I’m a fiction writer by trade - I’ve published two novels about people very different from myself, whether that’s culturally, regionally, racially or religiously.”Īt 3:30 p.m. “A question that I ask my students in class is: How do we tell ethical stories about other people, whether they’re real or imagined?” she said. It wasn’t until I was an adult that I interrogated my access to writing as a particular kind of privilege.”Īnd it’s those issues of privilege and authorial intention in fiction writing that Henderson said her week-long Chautauqua workshop will address. “It’s something I’ve always taken for granted as something I could do. “I would tell stories, and mostly I would plagiarize them from books that I read or shows on Nickelodeon,” said Henderson, an author, educator and the Chautauqua Writers’ Center’s Week Three prose writer-in-residence. From the time she was little, Eleanor Henderson said she always wanted to write stories. |