4 September 2021

September book recommendation

Maye Musk: A Woman Makes a Plan: Advice for a Lifetime of Adventure, Beauty, and Success 

The international supermodel shares personal stories and lessons learned from a life of "living dangerously—carefully"

Maye Musk at seventy-one is a fashionable, charming, jet-setting supermodel and public speaker with a fascinating and tight-knit circle of family and friends. But things were not always so easy or glamorous—she became a single mom at thirty-one years old, struggling through poverty to provide for her three children; dealt with weight issues as a plus-size model and overcame ageism in the modeling industry; and established a lifelong career as a respected dietitian, all the while starting over in eight different cities across three countries and two continents. But she made her way through it all with an indomitable spirit and a no-nonsense attitude to become a global success and an unexpected icon in what she calls the prime of her life.

In A Woman Makes a Plan, Maye shares experiences from her life conveying hard-earned wisdom and frank, practical advice on career, family, health, adventure, and more. You can't control everything that happens, but you can live a happier, healthier, and fun-filled life at any age. All you have to do is make a plan.

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/a-woman-makes-a-plan-maye-musk/1132810871

Milan Kundera: The Art of the Novel

“Lucid, detached, and epigrammatic …The book has its author’s familiar swiftness and variety of attack and his elegant, provocative irony.”— The New Yorker

"Every novelist's work contains an implicit vision of the history of the novel, an idea of what the novel is. I have tried to express the idea of the novel that is inherent in my own novels." — Milan Kundera

Kundera examines the evolution, construction, and essence of the novel as an art form through the lens of his own work and through the work of such important and diverse figures as Rabelais, Cervantes, Sterne, Diderot, Flaubert, Tolstoy, Musil, Kafka, and perhaps the least known of all the great novelists of our time, Hermann Broch.

As witty, original, and far-reaching as his unique fiction, Kundera offers his views on the role of historical events in fiction, the meaning of action, the creation of character in the post psychological novel and his reflections on the state of the modern European novel.

https://www.amazon.com/Art-Novel-Perennial-Classics/dp/0060093749

Jakobovits Kitti: Irodalomterápia - A könyvespolcod pszichológusszemmel

When reading — or writing — we connect with our own inner world as well. Whether it’s our favorite novel, our current reading, our own diary, our first or umpteenth volume of poetry - there are many psychological programs running in the background. Literary psychology and literary therapy researches and uses this connection in order to get closer to understanding our own experiences, thoughts and emotions through texts and stories.

But how can literature and psychology help each other? Why do we even like reading? How can our reading become a good companion in a difficult situation or stage of life? What do our defining reading experiences say about us? And what does all this have to do with adoctor’s office?

In her first work, psychologist and literary therapist Kitti Jakobovits seeks answers to these questions with impressive professionalism, remaining understandable and enjoyable.

Csabai Márk: Így nyertek ők - Magyar sportolók, akik megváltoztatták a világot

"We need heroes, role models, who give us the strength to set goals and achieve them." - Norbert Növényi, Olympic gold medalist wrestler

Did you know that Hungarian Olympians are among the most outstanding in the world? Have you heard that Hungary is one of the most outstanding participants in the Olympic Games in terms of the ratio of the population and the number of gold medals won? Did you know that there were times when it was possible to win the Olympics without the participant to be on the spot? Which sport was it?

In the course of our exciting sports history, the athletes of our country have achieved countless astonishing successes, who have become brilliant sports stars in the world thanks to their sacrificial work.

In the volume, Márk Csabai, the popular editor of crime and nonfiction and István L. Pap, the editor-in-chief of Nemzeti Sport shares with us the Hungarian Olympic successes and writes down our athletes’ ordeals of life. In the album, you can learn about our amazing athletes and discover the sports heroes of our time.

In the volume, we can for example pair up Aladár Gerevich with Áron Szilágyi, and find the hidden thread between them. We compare Egérke and the Iron Lady, and we take a close look at Norbert Növényi, Tamás Lőrincz, László Papp, Ágnes Keleti, Antal Kovács, Krisztián Tóth, Tamás Darnyi, Kristóf Milák, Dezső Gyarmati, Dénes Varga, Rita Kőbán, Danuta Kozák, Mihály Hesz, Bálint Kopasz and last but not least the eternal star of our country, the Golden Team. The album is interspersed with exciting articles and images, and commemorates historical moments."

Olympic past and Olympic present: legends and those who will one day become legends." - István L. Pap editor-in-chief of Nemzeti Sport

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