#readingisessential

Originally published to https://opinionsandtruth.wordpress.com on July 31, 2025.

**TODAY AT 4PM** Exclusive Announcement: Author's Cafe 25 is happening on Saturday July 11th at 4PM. It is also going to celebrate the 4th anniversary of Author's Cafe being birthed It will take place at the Reading Corner Cafe and be on ZOOM for those who are uncomfortable coming to the Cafe. There is limited seating at the Cafe. They will take no more than 12 guests coming and supporting the authors. They will practice social distancing and wearing masks The cost is ONLY $5. At the Reading Corner We will have Danielle Freedom Dixon, Holly Sawyer, Janelle McCall, Sabrina Taylor, and Shaunte Proctor Authors presenting via Zoom will be Kadreana Mack, and LeaLea Gooden This is going to be a unique and different way celebrate four years of Author's Cafe. Please support these authors via in person or via Zoom. The event will promptly will begin at 4pm SHARP! **Check the flyer for details** #BlackLivesMatter #BlackAuthors #ReadingisESSENTIAL #AuthorsCafe #BlackWomen (at The Reading Corner Cafe') https://www.instagram.com/p/CCg39iZj8Qq/?igshid=cccxtiags2ds

Exclusive Announcement: Author's Cafe 25 is happening on Saturday July 11th at 4PM. It is also going to celebrate the 4th anniversary of Author's Cafe being birthed It will take place at the Reading Corner Cafe and be on ZOOM for those who are uncomfortable coming to the Cafe. There is limited seating at the Cafe. They will take no more than 12 guests coming and supporting the authors. They will practice social distancing and wearing masks The cost is ONLY $5. At the Reading Corner We will have Danielle Freedom Dixon, Holly Sawyer, Janelle McCall, Sabrina Taylor, and Shaunte Proctor Authors presenting via Zoom will be Kadreana Mack, and LeaLea Gooden This is going to be a unique and different way celebrate four years of Author's Cafe. Please support these authors via in person or via Zoom. The event will promptly will begin at 4pm SHARP! **Check the flyer for details** #BlackLivesMatter #BlackAuthors #ReadingisESSENTIAL #AuthorsCafe #BlackWomen (at The Reading Corner Cafe') https://www.instagram.com/p/CCGVKwtjpjS/?igshid=1h27jn5y1efu7

Starting book 2 of the #denisemina series starring the enigmatic female detective #alexmorrow #bookstagram #criminalmystery #readingisessential https://www.instagram.com/p/B-AWncug7m6/?igshid=3hbcyxg49xf

Bedtime reading and other random fun times. #franktravels #frankchronicles #frankfamilyfun #granddaughters #readingisessential https://www.instagram.com/p/B3pR5vWCjWE/?igshid=1rc1m8dyfle57

Mindful Leader von Esther & Johannes #Narbeshuber ⭐⭐⭐⭐☆ Ein Sachbuch das einem die Notwendigkeit von Achtsamkeit im Berufsalltag aufzeigt und mit vielen praktischen Beispielen auch Werkzeuge an die Hand gibt, verschiedene Stresssituationen zu erkennen, anzunehmen und zu meistern. Ein überraschend eingängiges und gut geschriebenes Buch, das im Gegensatz zu vielen anderen Sachbüchern Spass gemacht hat zu lesen und das ich sicher häufiger nutzen werde. Ganz am Schluss wirds ein bischen arg Verkaufsveranstaltung aber trotzdem: Klare Leseempfehlung! Wer das Buch lesen will, einfach bei mir melden! #BookReview #MindfulLeader #ReadingIsEssential https://www.instagram.com/p/BypGFA6osiR/?igshid=wazsn1mjlv4o

With some of my favorite people in one of my favorite places... • • • • • • • • • • #reading #readingisessential #essentialreading #literature #books #book #review #read #art #poems #poet #poetry #leisure #library #happy #instalike #prose #rainermariarilke #maxpicard #sylviaplath #alexanderpushkin #literarymovement #beaubonito #aboylikeme #westlake #macarthurpark #losangeles #hollywood #westhollywood #weho (at Los Angeles Public Library) https://www.instagram.com/p/BxLO3YVA86c/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1w79k1qdaysh3

Just wanted to share with y’all pieces of literature I find particularly compelling, as it’s food for thought and nourishment for the soul (if you’re in need of something new in which to read and bury your imagination). 😁📚📖🤓 1) Without question, the QUINTESSENTIAL Bohemian-Austrian/German poet of the modernist era, and my absolute favorite of them all, Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) is not for the austere of mind. His lyrical intensity WILL not disappoint you. And he aided immensely in getting me through my mother’s death when she first passed. A dear and complicated man. 2) Friedrich Hölderlin (1770-1843, Romanticism/German Idealism) began for me as a bit of an acquired taste, perhaps because I was so engorged in Rainer for about five years. He was a schizophrenic, which, astonishingly enough, didn’t seem to present itself within his works in the form of what many with the disease experience as psychotic episodes; Rather, his ability to paint scenery with merely words and write with all the emotional fervor and dramatics of a Shakespearean drama are what eventually piqued, and built, my interest. Great stuff. 3) Marina Tsvetaeva is quite the wordsmith (almost finished with the unfortunately thin book). However, her pieces pack quite a powerful punch—especially those regarding romantic (and unrequited) love. She was a prominent Russian/Soviet poet of the Russian Symbolism movement, born in 1892 and dying in 1941. 4) it’s imperative to be well-rounded. 😂😉 I’m eager for my book by Max Picard (Swiss, 1888-1965) entitled “The World of Silence” to arrive in the mail next week! From there, I’ll take on Alexander Pushkin and, oddly enough, Sylvia Plath (I only say oddly because my taste tends to sit somewhere within the realm of OLDDDDDD and dead artists. And by dead, I mean like advanced dead). 😛 #reading #readingisessential #essentialreading #literature #books #book #review #read #art #poems #poet #poetry #leisure #library #happy #instalike #prose #rainermariarilke #friedrichholderlin #marinatsvetaeva #littlebookofbigpenis #literarymovement #beaubonito #aboylikeme #westlake #macarthurpark #losangeles #hollywood #westhollywood #weho (at Los Angeles, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/BvlNVWygdSH/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=3zhq1no1i52c