"I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we’re reading doesn’t wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for? So that it will make us happy, as you write? Good Lord, we would be happy precisely if we had no books, and the kind of books that make us happy are the kind we could write ourselves if we had to. But we need books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. That is my belief."
– Franz Kafka
Pronounced dead for over three minutes following a horrific car crash, Sam Cawthorn survived despite all the odds stacked against him. The accident resulted in his right arm being amputated, and caused permanent damage to his right leg. He was told he would never walk again; a setback that would surely defeat many. Proving the doctors and critics wrong, through sheer determination Sam regained his ability to walk just over a year later.
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– Umberto Eco
Stormy Daniels, whose lawsuit against President Donald Trump over an unsigned nondisclosure agreement has made her a household name, will publish a memoir, Full Disclosure, with St. Martin’s Press on October 2. World publishing rights were acquired by SMP chairman Sally Richardson and executive editor Elizabeth Beier from Luke Janklow of Janklow & Nesbit Associates. The book will be published simultaneously in the U.K., Australia, South Africa, and India by Pan Macmillan and in Germany by Droemer Knaur. and will be available in hardcover, e-book, and audio formats.
