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Books for Living Author: Will Schwalbe

ISBN: 9781444790788 Format: Paperback Number Of Pages: 288 Published: 10 January 2017 Country of Publication: GB Dimensions (cm): 21.0 x 15.0 x 2.2 Description: An exploration of how reading guides us, comforts us and helps us make sense of the world and our place in it.

From the author of the best-selling and beloved The End Of Your Life Book Club - a wonderfully engaging new book: both a celebration of reading in general and an impassioned recommendation of specific books that can help guide us through our daily lives.

I've always believed that everything you need to know you can find in a book', writes Will Schwalbe in his introduction to this thought-provoking, heart-felt, and often inspiring new book about books.

In each chapter he 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. He talks about what brought him to each book - or vice versa; the people in his life he associates each book with; how each has led him to other books; how each is part of his understanding of himself in the world.

And he relates each book to a question of our daily lives, for example: Melville's Bartelby, The Scrivener </i...

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