En loneliness It's how it is best read ... Or at least, it seems to me. It is like one of my moments of peace where everything around me is calm and quiet. However, it is not about that loneliness that we come to talk to you about today, but about the loneliness that weighs, hurts and that is felt in the soul as an immense emptiness. Everyone, I would dare to say, we have felt that loneliness on occasion and depending on the person, it is carried in one way or another. Reading, is for my taste, one of the best ways to take it to "get ahead" and if we also read books that are useful to cope with that loneliness, better than better.
This time I wanted to bring you 3 books to read when you feel lonely or lonely. They are very suitable books for when we feel that sad emptiness and attest that they "feed" the soul. We hope you like them!
"Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse
To this day, it remains one of my favorite books. The first time I read it was when I was 15 years old and since then I have reread it about two more times. It is one of my must-haves! My grade: 5/5.
Synopsis
This novel, set in traditional India, recounts the life of Siddhartha, a man for whom the path of truth passes through renunciation and the understanding of the unity that underlies all that exists. In its pages, the author offers all the spiritual options of man. Hermann Hesse dived into the soul of the Orient in order to bring its positive aspects to our society. Siddhartha is the most representative work of this process and has had a great influence on Western culture in the XNUMXth century.
"The Power of Now" by Eckhart Tolle
At first, as soon as I started reading it, it was a love-hate what I felt for this book. I was not attracted to anything, however, something told me that I had to keep reading it because I would end up liking it. That's how it went! It is a book that gives you a lot of stillness, a lot of calm and a lot of perspective on things. Above all, it teaches you to appreciate what you have around you and not to be upset, upset or worry about the things that you cannot change. Highly recommended. My grade: 4/5.
Synopsis
To enter this wonderful book we will have to leave behind our analytical mind and its false self, the ego. From the first page of this extraordinary book we rise to a greater height and breathe lighter air. We connect with the indestructible essence of our Being: "the One omnipresent, eternal Life, which is beyond the gaze of forms of life subject to birth and death." Although the journey is challenging, Eckhart Tolle guides us using simple language and a simple question-answer format.
"What do we talk about when we talk about love" by Raymond Carver
Raymond Carver is an author who has brought me both good and "regular" literary moments. Regular because there are some other books of his that I bought very excited and that nevertheless disappointed me enormously. It was the case of this one: «What do we talk about when we talk about love». But it let me down on its first reading, not the second I did. He knew very well that perhaps it was not the best time to read it. I have always thought that whether we like a book or not depends not only on the author, the way it was written, etc., but also on the moment we are personally living. Therefore, the first time I didn't like it at all, however, the second time I was quite hooked. This is why I recommend it, because they are short stories that teach us in one way or another to better communicate with those around us. My grade: 4/5.
Synopsis
Couples that fall apart, companions who desperately go on an adventure, children who try to communicate with their parents, an unfair, violent, tense, sometimes laughable universe ... In the words of Roberto Fernández Sastre, Carver does not designate the intolerable, but rather names it . Without concessions to anything or anyone, it rescues the real in its amorphous and brutal essentiality. Carver's narrative is so stark that it takes a while to realize the extent to which the totality of a culture and a moral condition is represented by even the seemingly dimmest outline. This second volume of stories is clearly the work of a master in his prime.
Whichever one you choose, we hope we were right with this literary recommendation.