After reading Sejal Shah’s review about her friend’s book, I decided I wanted to read it. I wanted to know more about Erin’s journey as it related to the tension that resulted from falling in love with a women at about the same time that she fell in love with Catholicism. When I graduated from Union
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The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion was in a stack of books a friend was giving away. I had been wanting to read it, but I knew it would be difficult. I had seen the documentary, Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold, and I knew her story. I had to be prepared
I heard Kate Bowler interviewed by Terry Gross on NPR’s Fresh Air. The interview moved me to buy Bowler’s book which chronicles her story centered on a diagnosis of Stage IV colon cancer. With tremendous power and grace she takes the reader from the highpoint of her young life through the devastating diagnosis of cancer
I came across the book Mindset by Carol Dweck on one of my favorite websites, Brain Pickings by Maria Popova. Dweck is a research psychologist who has done groundbreaking work on how our belief systems shape our personalities and our brains. She describes two mindsets that can color the way we live our lives
I have heard several interesting interviews which have led me to order three books. All the interviews are archived on the Democracy Now website. First, I heard Timothy Snyder talk about his book On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons From the Twentieth Century. He makes succinct connections between today and the totalitarianism of the Twentieth Century. It’s
