The Best Moments in Reading
July 30, 2014
“The best moments in reading are when you come across
something—a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things—which you had
thought special and particular to you. And now, here it is, set down by someone
else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as
if a hand has come out, and taken yours”
—Alan Bennett, The History Boys
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Oh yes, & Sara Midda's South of France is such a book for me! So many: The Zen of Seeing...Herman Hesse's Siddhartha, years ago...
ReplyDeleteAnne Lamott...The Art of Pilgrimage by Cousineau...Quiet: The Power of the Introvert...Way too many others...Good question...Good summer reading to you!
Rita--We've got some overlap, I see--I loved Quiet, and I also love Anne Lamott's work. I would add Gretchen Rubin and Anne Morrow Lindbergh, just to name two for myself.
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