Top 100 Canadian Books: Fifteen Dogs by Andre Alexis Top 100 Canadian Books of All Time In case you haven’t seen my Top 100 Canadian Books of All Time list, here’s a brief explanation. A few months ago, I looked at all the Top Canadian Books lists and prestigious Canadian literary awards I could find,…
Jordan: Our Last Best Chance by King Abdullah II (from Diplomatica’s ‘Great Reads from Around the World’) Great Reads from Around the World I’m making my way through the Great Reads from Around the World list on DiplomaticaGlobal.com, a list curated by each country’s embassy in Washington, D.C. Looking at it just now, I can…
Ancient Egyptian: Writings from Ancient Egypt Let me just preface this Very Serious Analysis of Writings from Ancient Egypt by saying: OMG I don’t think I’ve ever had a floppier Penguin paperback! I’m in love. 😍 Now that that’s out of the way… Writings from Ancient Egypt overview This Penguin collection is translated and compiled by…
Canada: Ru and Unearthing Diplomatica’s ‘Great Reads from Around the World’ #1 Full details about my Diplomatica ‘Great Reads from Around the World’ project are here. Hello! Welcome to my first, hopefully monthly, installment of my Great Reads from Around the World project AND my Top 100 Canadian Books of All Time project. My goal here is…
Ancient Egyptian: The Egyptian Book of the Dead The Book of the Dead I talked briefly about Ancient Egypt’s The Book of the Dead in my post about Ancient Egyptian language and literature a couple months back, but today I’ll take a more in-depth look at this most famous work of Ancient Egyptian literature. The Book of…
The Tao Te Ching (pronounced more like Dow Day Jing) or “Book of the Way” is, simply put, the greatest self-help book of all time. While Lao Tzu’s words of wisdom launched Taoism and influenced Chinese philosophy, Confucianism, and Buddhism, anyone of any religion or belief system could apply its teachings and find themselves living a…
(image: Title page of the I Ching, c. 1100 AD/CE – http://catalog.digitalarchives.tw/item/00/08/73/99.html, Public Domain) As I mentioned previously in my post about the Old Chinese language, the earliest examples of written Chinese come from oracle bones, pieces of ox scapula or turtle shell that were used in divination rituals and began to include written language…