The Path of Least Resistance: Learning to Become the Creative Force in Your Own Life – Robert Fritz, 1989 – quotes pulled, TBD
Cat’s Eye – Margaret Atwood, 1998 – quotes pulled, TBD
A History of Loneliness, 2014 – John Boyne – quotes pulled, TBD
Spring Chicken: Stay Young Forever (or Die Trying) – Bill Griffin, 2015. Not bad… Griffin’s a little too into himself, but clearly explains why it’s all about exercise and purpose (ikigai is my biggest takeaway).
The Happiness Equation: Want Nothing + Do Anything = Have Everything – Neil Pasricha, 2015. Wait, he talks about ikigai as well… now I’m not sure which book I’m remembering it from. This was also not bad but evaporates from my memory like many self-help books. I did like very much that the main messages from each chapter are added to each time, so that the first ones get repeated – that really helps anchor them together. The full set is: be happy first; do it for you; remember the lottery; never retire; overvalue you; create space; just do it; be you; and don’t take advice, which is a great way to end a self-help book! But seriously, that list refreshes my memory enough to call this one above average.
Double Star – Robert Heinlein, 1956 – One of my favorite Heinleins, a taste I share with Connie Willis! I re-read it this time because of remembering “politics is the only sport for grownups.”