Stop Reading the News: A Manifesto for a Happier, Calmer and Wiser Life Condition:Very Good Description: Virginia Woolf is one

Description: Virginia Woolf is one of the most iconic modernist figures

he encounters a horror of violence and gore he could not have imagined and sustains his spirit with only the words on the pages from home and the camaraderie of the mud-covered Irish boys who fight and die by his side

Life and death are no more than a game to him and he has nothing left to lose

The modern working world is a dangerous place

in profoundly different ways

Stop Reading the News: A Manifesto for a Happier, Calmer and Wiser Life Condition:Very Good Description: Virginia Woolf is oneNews is to the mind what sugar is to the body. In 2013, Rolf Dobelli stood in front of a roomful of journalists and proclaimed that he did not read the news. It caused a riot. Now he finally sets down his philosophy in detail. And he practises what he preaches: he hasn't read the news for a decade. Stop Reading the News is Dobelli's manifesto about the dangers of the most toxic form of information news. He shows the damage it does to our concentration