patlo's Reviews (1.32k)

A beautiful little meditation and reflection on Parker Palmer classic text on calling and vocation, Listen to Your Life Speak. This author does a sketch note or graphic representation of a short quote from Palmer‘s book, then offers reflection and response questions on the theme. This would work really well for a daily reflection, that helps you to journal, think, pray. 

I’m not really sure how to rate this book. It’s a collection of short thoughts on aspects of creativity. Extended koans if you will. Some of them are hard hitting and super helpful. Then there’s some just loopy stuff. Perhaps when you start reading this and hit the appendix story, you’ll understand. The good stuff is great, the other stuff is… not.

GORGEOUS retelling of the historical events of Spanish conquistadors under Hernán Cortés entering the city of Tenochtitlan and meeting with the court of emperor Moctezuma.

It's rare that, as I'm reading a book, I wished it were MUCH longer, or a series. But this one is an entire world, and reimagines a dense and complex world that many of us have some passing familiarity with. It's trippy hallucinogenic; it thrives in court politics and religious variety; its characters are all well shaped. The reader's head swims in a fast paced, dense story with color and flavor everywhere.

Think multicultural Game of Throes meets Hunter S. Thompson packed into a 220 page novella.

TIP: Don't skip the author's notes to the translator in the first pages.