5 Spiritual Books to Skim Through This Week

You still have plenty of time to start reading  good and entertaining books . There are 5 books that beg you to skim through this week. there are plenty of highly-anticipated books releases on the way.

1- So Far So Good by Ursula K. Le Guin 

The late genius of science fiction was always a poet، and in this collection completed just before her death earlier this year ''Le Guin'' is candid unafraid and as fiercely devoted as ever to shape-shifting creatures and cats.

2- The Life of Saul Bellow by Zachary Leader 

Leader’s first volume followed Bellow on his ascent from street kid to Guggenheim fellow and expat. As the second volume shows. Bellow never stopped collecting wives, children, masterpieces and awards.

Things do not get nobler in the second volume which is as minutely researched and clear-eyed as Leader’s first. It begins with the publication of Herzog at the end of 1964. The novel had been made out of the collapse of his second marriage to Sasha, who had been having an affair with his friend and academic colleague, Jack Ludwig.

3-Commandatore by Haruki Murakami 

When his marriage fails a portrait artist seeks refuge in a friend’s home where a painting in the attic helps him slip into another dimension and his reality slowly begins to shift: A tech baron seeks him out for a portrait he meets a 13-year-old girl reminiscent of his late sister and mysterious sounds lead him to a magical well. This one is for longtime Murakami fans hankering for more fantastical quests and morose meditations in the mode of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle.

4- She Would Be King by Wayétu Moore

Magical realism meets the revisionist superhero in Moore’s imaginative debut in which several unlikely saviors  a super-strong escaped Virginia slave, a half-Jamaican who can disappear and a West African woman prone to rising from the dead  converge on Liberia around the moment of its founding and fight to repel colonial incursions.

Moore’s breakthrough sheds heavenly light on the fleeting moment when the African diaspora reversed itself.

5- Radical New History of Life by David Quammen

David Quammen explains how recent discoveries in molecular biology can change our understanding of evolution and life’s history with powerful implications for human health and even our own human nature.

In the Tangled Tree David Quammen, one of that rare breed of science journalists who blends exploration with a talent for synthesis and storytelling “Nature”, chronicles these discoveries through the lives of the researchers who made them such as ”Carl Woese” the most important little-known biologist of the twentieth century, ”Lynn Margulis”, the notorious maverick whose wild ideas about “mosaic” creatures proved to be true.