This
week’s topic:
Top Ten Books If You Like X tv show/movie/comic etc. (basically any sort of
other entertainment)
It’s
springtime. If ever there was a time to reinvent your life, it’s spring. Trees
and flowers and birds are all coming back to life. And for those of us in the
north, we’re slowing coming back, too. Now is a great time to reinvent your
life, to change your routine or take on a creative project. One of the best
movies about undertaking a project and reinventing a life is Julie & Julia, based on the book of
the same name. Interested in how other authors changed their lives—and made a
book out of it? Try these titles…
All My
Life for Sale, John D. Freyer
Animal,
Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life, Barbara Kingsolver
Dinner with Dad: How I Found My Way Back to the Family
Table, Cameron Stracher
Eat,
Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything across Italy, India, and
Indonesia, Elizabeth Gilbert
The
Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean
My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun, Gretchen
Craft Rubin
Home Is a Roof over a Pig: An American Family’s Journey in China, Aminta Arrington
Humans of New York, Brandon Stanton
The
Kitchen Counter Cooking School: How a Few Simple Lessons Transformed Nine
Culinary Novices into Fearless Home Cooks, Kathleen Flinn
The Know-It-All: One Man’s Humble Quest to Become the
Smartest Person in the World, A.J.
Jacobs
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail, Cheryl Strayed
Julie & Julia actually does fit with Wild really well! The whole women trying to figure out life thing.
ReplyDeleteAlso, I have a copy of The Know-It-All on my shelves I really need to pick up soon.
I should do a follow-up post including all the titles I didn't use for this top ten. I love a good project/adventure book, but I didn't realize I'd read so many!
DeleteI think The Know-It-All is the best of Jacobs' books. They're all wonderfully gimmicky, but this one was less "out there." I think it had more heart. Plus, I learned a lot.
"The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun, Gretchen Craft Rubin" actually sounds really interesting. With finals period inching closer, I might just need to read it in order not to lose my mind completely during those daunting times!
ReplyDeleteI hope you give it a read. It's one of my absolute favorites. Rubin takes an almost clinical approach to attaining happiness, and it really works. Quite fascinating. Her second book, Happier at Home, is just as good.
DeleteGood luck on your finals!