A Few Good Books
On our blog, we talk about our favourite books and authors, old and new, books that stayed with us long after we were done reading, the ones we might gently press into the hands of other readers.
Book Recommendation: Ben & Me by Eric Weiner
This is a book about Ben Franklin. It’s a biography, but the writer focuses not just on what Franklin said and did in his life, but on what he thought about life, and how it should be lived, so it is philosophy as well. What makes it even better is that Eric Weiner doesn’t just write about Franklin, he engages with his ideas and tries to apply them to his own life...
Book Recommendation: How to Live by Sarah Bakewell
This is a book that tries to answer a very fundamental question, How to Live? Not how we should live, in the sense of morality, but how to live a good life, a fully human, satisfying, and flourishing one. Sarah Bakewell tries to answer this question through the medium of the life and writings of one man, Michael de Montaigne, the man who single-handedly created the literary genre of the essay, and gave it its name...