Five Books Newsletter 4
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Five Books Newsletter
Dear Five Books reader,
Below are our book picks for this week, from some of my favourite interviews.
Please enjoy and have a lovely weekend!
Sophie Roell
sophie.roell@fivebooks.com (sophie.roell@fivebooks.com)
This Week's Books
http://fivebooks.com/recommended/dhammapada-sayings-buddha-by-rendering-thomas-byrom
"The Dhammapada is one of the greatest psychological works ever written."
Jonathan Haidt on Happiness (http://fivebooks.com/interviews/jonathan-haidt-on-happiness)
http://fivebooks.com/recommended/nicomachean-ethics-by-aristotle
"Friendship is a very important thing for Aristotle, and perhaps one of the most beautiful things in the Nichomachean Ethics is his discussion of friendship."
AC Grayling on Being Good (http://fivebooks.com/interviews/ac-grayling-on-being-good)
http://fivebooks.com/recommended/writing-memoir-craft-by-stephen-king
"All writing teachers hate adverbs. I don’t know why. What’s wrong with a little adverb every now and then? Why does our language have adverbs if we’re not supposed to use them?"
Eric Olsen on How to Write (http://fivebooks.com/interviews/eric-olsen-on-how-write)
http://fivebooks.com/recommended/influence-by-robert-b-cialdini
"It also shows you how much other people have control, at the end of the day, over our actions."
Dan Ariely on Behavioural Economics (http://fivebooks.com/interviews/dan-ariely-on-behavioural-economics)
http://fivebooks.com/recommended/charles-darwin-by-janet-browne
"This book may be the best scientific biography that I’ve ever read."
Jerry Coyne on Evolution (http://fivebooks.com/interviews/jerry-coyne-on-evolution)
Quote of the Week
"The main reason for the survival of religion is not a desire to live a better life, but our fear of death."
Susan Jacoby on Atheism (www.fivebooks.com/interviews/susan-jacoby-on-atheism )