So it didn’t need hundreds of pages to say things
The title of this post comes from a quote I read in Anxious People: A Novel the full quote is:
"He had underlined one sentence, several hundred pages in: We are asleep until we fall in love. Estelle gave him a book in exchange, one written by a woman, so it didn’t need hundreds of pages to say things."
Of course that it was while reading a book written by a male that I noticed that most of my favorite books are written by women. A friend recently posted his "to be read" list and I noticed that only one of the books was written by women. Of course I felt the need to step in and share some of my favorites women written books. He invited me to blog about it. So here I am.
Non Fiction
- The Choice My favorite book of all time. Not only Dr Eger story is amazing, the way she tells it is so relatable, It makes you feel you are there with her. Beautiful book that serves as a guide to make peace with trauma from your past.
- Precious Little Sleep This book marked my evolution from a dad to a father. I remember sharing via WhatsApp quotes and quotes from this book with my wife. Reading this book feels like chatting with a friend about sleep strategies for a child. If you are a parent of child with bad sleep hygiene or know someone who's about to become a parent. Go ahead and share this book with them.
- Maybe You Should Talk To Someone Great book. It's even more engaging if you go to therapy as it makes you think about the relationship that develops between you and your therapist and with therapy itself. Every chapter I read It felt as I was on a therapy session.
- Different I usually do not read business books as I find them repetitive and frankly just boring. They are not when written by Prof. Youngme Moon. The tone she uses to share her ideas is so down to earth you just feel you are talking business with a friend. Solid book packed with ideas on how to differentiate yourself in the business world, it shares a framework to be used when analyzing different firms and identifying winners, losers and battlefields.
Fiction
- Lost & Found I don't know how common it is to fall in love not with a whole book but with half of it. This book is divided in two parts. Lost where the author talks about losing his father and Found where she finds a romantic partner. Maybe it is because I read this book while staying in one of my favorites AirBnB's in Costa Rica or maybe because I've experienced lost in so many forms. But the first part of the book is something that I recall at least weekly. It is the book that I wish my daughter would write to me someday. I have to share a couple of quotes that marked me:
- But he knew intimately the cost of assimilation, one of life’s stealthiest forms of loss, as well as the abiding yearning for an unrecoverable home
- My father could not have known, that day in New York Harbor, that the most difficult parts of his life were already behind him. But I do think he had an intuition that, in putting so much distance between himself and his past, he was incurring losses of a different kind—the kind that, for immigrants and refugees, are often the price of making a home in a new place.