pickListened to this on my flight to Prague. I just think John Green is the most pleasant and kind person. 4.25/5
I really loved the idea of this book. Each chapter is a subject or item he "reviews" gives a story, tells the origin or facts about and then rates. I don't think I have ever seen this done before, and it is John so things are lyrical and filled with anxiety and a wish for a better world.
4.5/5
bailedAfter reading four essays, I decided to bail... Usually, I like reading essays, seeing other people's point of view, but here it seems I can't connect: lack of definitions, issues with how the ideas flow, sometimes caricatural depiction lacking nuances. But most importantly, no “haha, that's an interesting point“ moment.
When you repurpose a bookcase for the puzzle collection but you already needed another bookcase, and you just made space around the books for your yoga practice on a blanket tonight 😝
While out with friends this afternoon, I was reminded of the year my kids and I hiked the same hike each week for 52 weeks, and when I got home, I read through the posts I'd published about them on my blog. This post from Week 40 reminded me of what was going on in the world in 2016, and helped explain why I felt so connected to the tagged while reading it this week: http://imperfecthappiness.org/2016/07/09/weekly-walk-40/
pickThis series of essays written during E.B. White's first four years full-time on his Maine farm in the years immediately before and after the bombing of Pearl Harbor feels like a balm and a primer in how to balance attention to world affairs with pursuits that ground us in the daily world in which we spend most of our time. The essays are conversational and humble, and provide glimpses of the man who will become the author of Charlotte's Web.
I was recommending the tagged book to my 16-year-old son because he enjoys history, and I'm finding it a unique perspective on how to live one's everyday life as authoritarianism is spreading and fascist apologists are cropping up. He was on board until I told him the title, at which point he laughed heartily because, while he's quite an intellectual kid, he remains a 16-year-old boy.
An important question.
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