Author: Will Schwalbe

Summary: This was occasionally touching and sometimes resonated with me, but mostly it felt like a failed attempt to recreated the magic of The End of Your Life Book Club.

The description of this book claims that the author ‘makes clear the ways in which a particular book has helped to shape how he leads his own life and the ways in which it might help to shape ours.’ To me, this seems like a pretty high bar to clear. I love reading, but I can’t think of any single book that has changed how I live my life. I suspect my reading as a whole influences my life and my outlook on the world. Connecting that to one specific book is tricky. However, based on the description I expected the author to describe some life changing books and to give some helpful advice. Based on his previous book, The End of Your Life Book Club, I also expected this to be very moving. It only occasionally lived up to any these expectations. Read more »