Currently reading
Paddy's Lament, Ireland 1846-1847: Prelude to Hatred
Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One
When in French: Love in a Second Language
Beyond the Job Description: How Managers and Employees Can Navigate the True Demands of the Job
Vision and Art: The Biology of Seeing
Achieving Your Potential As A Photographer: A Creative Companion and Workbook
Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age
Picture Perfect Practice: A Self-Training Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Taking World-Class Photographs (Voices That Matter)
Man's Search for Meaning
Terms of Service: Social Media and the Price of Constant Connection
A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Me about Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter
I liked it. It may seem a little self-centered when he relates every book to his life, but don't we do that as we read? Inspired by his graduate school professor-mentor's method: "He simply wanted us to write a one-page paper every week. One page, with no citations and outside reading. Just you and the book and one of those fiendishly simple questions he liked to ask....Feelings are also the primary way we know about novels -- which, after all, are training grounds for responding to the world, imaginative sanctuaries in which to hone and test our ethical judgments & choices. ... What was it if not my feelings that Austen had been working with in Emma, when she taught me about boredom, or Pride and Prejudice, when she taught me about certainty? Curiosity, perplexity, exhiliration; the buzz in the brain, the tumult in the soul -- that my professor was telling me, was what I had to work with; that was where my scholarship should start. With the love of reading that had gotten me into graduate school in the first place." p.99
