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Lara’s Book Club Review
Review of “This Mobius Strip of Ifs” at Lara’s Book Club Recap: In our younger years, we are lost, with the hope that as we grow older, we’ll better understand ourselves, others, and the world as a whole. That’s what Mathias B. Freese attempts to do in his collection of personal essays This Mobius Strip of Ifs. But over and over again, he explains that “knowledge is death” and the idea of full enlightenment or “de-conditioning” as he calls it is impossible to achieve. Though it’s not one coherent tale, Mobius does share a story about its author and the difficult cards he’s…
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Review by Udita Banerjee
This Mobius Strip of Ifs …a review POSTED ON APRIL 5, 2013 BY UDITA BANERJEE on http://cupandchaucer.wordpress.com I usually read fiction. So when Mathias B. Freese wrote to me asking if I would like to review his book, I agreed because of two words that he used to describe his book, ‘memoir’ and ‘psychotherapist’. What’s not be intrigued about!? I wasn’t disappointed. This book is a collection of essays, a wide variety of topics, from relationships to blogging, from Holocaust to Freud… each essay was a bit of a jolt really… It is a harsh read. There are works like those of Freud’s, scientific and…
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Krishnamurti Redux
I finished reading Vernon’s Star in the East, probably the best survey in recent years of the life of the religious philosopher Krishnamurti. As you may or may not know, I’ve been reading books by and about Krishnamurti since 1975. I retreat to the “master” every now and then to replenish myself, for often the well goes dry. especially now, as I move toward deeper old age. And what have I learned. Nothing! I am as obtuse and dense as I have always been. And yet I read him, probably to see through a glass darkly what I might be…
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The Most Significant Thing
Having signed a contract with Dzanc Publishing a few months ago, things have now moved along. By this June three ebook versions of The i Tetralogy, Down to a Sunless Sea and This Mobius Strip of Ifs will be published as ebooks, whatever that really is. I am still unclear of many features of this process but I am going along with it. However, I Truly Lament — Working Through the Holocaust, a collection of short fiction, will be published in paperback by Dzanc and that book will not come out until 2015, or so, which is disheartening for I…