The Book of Questions

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This is a book for personal growth, a tool for deepening relationships, a lively conversation starter for the family dinner table, a fun way to pass the time in the car. Originally published in 1987, The Book of Questions, a New York Times bestseller, has been completely revised and updated to incorporate the myriad cultural shifts and hot-button issues of the past twenty-five years, making it current and even more appealing. This beautifully-illustrated gift-book provides gentle, playful and easy-to-understand answers to 50 common questions about the wonderful world around you – with words by bestselling author Moira Butterfield and artwork by exciting talent Cindy Wume. Elegantly designed with many bonus gatefolds, the pages include humorous inquiries such as, “Why, when expecting snow,/ do trees take off their clothes?

Let it sit for a month or so and thought maybe I'd post a few questions from it here in this review and let folks answer in the comments. This bilingual Spanish-English edition is the first illustrated selection of questions, 70 in all, from Pablo Neruda's original poem (320 questions) The Book of Questions. The book is large and contains playful fold-out pages and whimsical illustrations that help bring readers into the imaginative world of the questions… In illustrating these questions, Valdivia didn't want to hint at any answers.Back matter includes notes about the source material and its meaning from the illustrator, editor, and translator. I can see groups of people sitting around looking at this book maybe at a party and discussing eachother's answers. In other words, it’s an entire book of questions that you simply9 can’t, “Google”—as pointed out by author Austin Kleon. What if you found that the person you planned to marry would likely to get Alzheimer's by his/her 50th birthday? Intriguing questions with no answers make up this oversize dual-language volume by two Chilean creators, featuring Neruda’s sophisticated musings.

Book of Questions now comes alive in a stunning bilingual picture-book, illustrated by Chilean artist Paloma Valdivia. And remember that beyond helping you figure out who you are, properly crafted questions can help you immediately change your state! Which is more important: actual experiences , or the memories that remain when the experiences are over? If you are under 16, please obtain your parent/guardian’s permission before submitting or ask your parent/guardian to submit on your behalf.If so, which is the most important, how do you hope to reach it, and how do you think reaching it will enhance your life? Out of the totality arises a larger sense of reckoning—a person of uncommon soulfulness and sensitivity to the subterranean strata of life, approaching the end of his days with a cascade of curiosity, singing the ultimate question: What is all this?

Employing a black, green, red, and yellow palette, Valdivia’s artwork feels as dark and mysterious as Neruda’s questions. Would you rather spend a month on vacation with your parents or put in overtime at your current job for four weeks without extra compensation? The never-endingly interesting topic of sex— Would you be willing to give up sex for a year if you knew it would give you a much deeper sense of peace than you now have? It poses over 300 questions that invite people to explore the most fascinating of subjects: themselves and how they really feel about the world. Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH).Illustrator Paloma Valdivia shares the same homeland of Chile as Neruda, and her art gorgeously reveals the geography of his poems, bringing to life the landscapes in which Neruda composed his Book of Questions. The Book of Questions may be the only publication that challenges―and even changes―the way you view the world, without offering a single opinion of its own.