Tag: The Examined Life

Shelf Help Review: The Examined Life by Stephen Grosz

Shelf Help Review: The Examined Life by Stephen Grosz

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This book is about learning to live.

In simple stories of encounter between a psychoanalyst and his patients, The Examined Life reveals how the art of insight can illuminate the most complicated, confounding and human of experiences.
These are stories about our everyday lives: about the people we love and the lies we tell; the changes we bear, and the grief. Ultimately, they show us not only how we lose ourselves but how we find ourselves too. Continue reading “Shelf Help Review: The Examined Life by Stephen Grosz” →

Shelf Help - "New year, same you, but with a really cracking reading list!"

Shelf Help – “New year, same you, but with a really cracking reading list!”

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Shelf Help is a a new kind of book club, a series of paperbacks from Vintage Books that will be focussed on, one-a month, over 2014.  The collection is collated by Alex Clark, of Guardian Books.  The list aims to provide a variety of great reads, which will enlighten, inspire, engage.  As Clark says in her article, they will “stimulate the intellect, to nourish the soul, to soothe the central nervous system; books that could act at once as a home and as a place to explore the “wild things”.” Continue reading “Shelf Help – “New year, same you, but with a really cracking reading list!”” →