What kind of reader are you? Anne Fadiman gives a book-length answer to that question in Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader. She tells stories about her passion for reading books. For example, she describes the thrill of going to a place that a book describes, then reading … Read More
Category: non-fiction
“Every behavior has more than one cause.”
Looking for a simple explanation for why some people are introverts and others are extroverts? Then don’t read Susan Cain’s book Quiet. Her explanation has not one, not two, not three, but four factors: our inborn temperament, environment, free will, and how these interact at any given time. She … Read More
“Now I become myself.”
Parker Palmer quotes this wonderful opening line from a poem by May Sarton in his collection of autobiographical essays Let Your Life Speak. For him, the process of “becoming” meant taking many wrong turns before finding the right ones. People who know him only as the highly successful best-selling … Read More