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Bremer’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Bremer’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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The Making of Father in My Name (Novel): A Q&A with Bremer Acosta
Kindle: Available Now
Paperback: Available on January 18, 2025
How long did it take for you to write Father in My Name?
It took me eight years. I wrote for at least an hour a day. Most of that was revision.
I didn’t tell anyone what I was writing. There was a universe in my head that only I knew about. If I had died before the publication, all those words would have been lost forever. Now, I can d Read more of this blog post »
Paperback: Available on January 18, 2025
How long did it take for you to write Father in My Name?
It took me eight years. I wrote for at least an hour a day. Most of that was revision.
I didn’t tell anyone what I was writing. There was a universe in my head that only I knew about. If I had died before the publication, all those words would have been lost forever. Now, I can d Read more of this blog post »
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“Too often we forget that discipline really means to teach, not to punish. A disciple is a student, not a recipient of behavioural consequences.”
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“In terms of development, very young children are right-hemisphere dominant, especially during their first three years. They haven’t mastered the ability to use logic and words to express their feelings, and they live their lives completely in the moment—which is why they will drop everything to squat down and fully absorb themselves in watching a ladybug crawl along the sidewalk, not caring one bit that they are late for their toddler music class. Logic, responsibilities, and time don’t exist for them yet. But when a toddler begins asking “Why?” all the time, you know that the left brain is beginning to really kick in. Why? Because our left brain likes to know the linear cause-effect relationships in the world—and to express that logic with language.”
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“When you pursue wisdom, you will soon realize how much you don’t know. Your knowledge will be incomplete, but continually developing through your curiosity.
Arrogance blocks new information from coming in. When you’re conceited, you’ll resist change, and struggle to preserve your fixed image. Don’t fall into smug idleness, used to comfort. Challenge what you think you know, not caring if other people see you as a fool.
Progress daily in your own uncertainty.”
― Stoic Practice
Arrogance blocks new information from coming in. When you’re conceited, you’ll resist change, and struggle to preserve your fixed image. Don’t fall into smug idleness, used to comfort. Challenge what you think you know, not caring if other people see you as a fool.
Progress daily in your own uncertainty.”
― Stoic Practice
“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we're reading doesn't wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for? So that it will make us happy, as you write? Good Lord, we would be happy precisely if we had no books, and the kind of books that make us happy are the kind we could write ourselves if we had to. But we need books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. That is my belief.”
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“The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth," and so it goes away. Puzzling.”
― Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
― Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
“Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts... A graphic representation of data abstracted from banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding...”
― Neuromancer
― Neuromancer
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