It was the first book I read as a kid that transformed not only my idea of what language could do and be, but it also inspired me so much that it made me want to become a writer myself and learn how to use language in a way that made others feel the way that book made me feel
So it's so hard for me to choose one, because reading is a hobby of mine, and it has been since I was a little girl. And I have so many favorites. But I think my my all time favorite has got to be Victor Frankel's Search for Meaning. And he was a psychiatrist and a victim of the Holocaust
Jeremiah Myer
@Jeremiah73 · 4:39
Hello. I had to really you gave me a pause to really think about what book I would identify as one of the most influential book books that I've ever read in my library. I'm an avid reader, as probably everyone that is on this well is, and I've read probably thousands and thousands of books. And so to narrow it, distill it down to one I thought was going to be a really difficult task
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15
And it's kind of helped me understand some boundaries that needed to be in place and how the interactions with those people have impacted my femininity in the way that I look at myself and stuff like that. So it's a good book on physical healing, but also the spiritual, which go hand in hand. So yeah
The author is a neuroscientist, but he is also, I guess you might call him a thinker or a philosopher or something along those lines, but he uses neuroscience to understand the brain and then understand how we perceive things, how we interact and so on. And so in offering us the science, he allowed me to have so much more complexity and nuance enter my understanding of others in comparison to myself, the world and so on
You. Hi. This is a very tough question for me, as well as I also read a lot of books, as many of you have said here. But if I have to really think about what book has influenced me the most, I think I should go all the way back to second grade, when I first laid my hands on the N blighten books
A book that I read around the same time that I read the house on Mango Street was Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keys. And the way that it is published, I think, is part of the storytelling because there is a major medical change that happens to the main character and the font in the publishing changes in a way to note that change in the character medically and being able to communicate more clearly
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 2:00
Wow, this is like a reading list for me. Some of these books I have read, some of them I've not, but I think I need to read all of them again. What a great question. I want to say fahrenheit 451 by raid Bradbury. It was really meta for me when I read it, because there I was reading it in full view of the world and not in some forest trying to memorize it to keep it alive
Darlene Williams
@DSWDSW00 · 0:19
You. Hello to all this. Well, podcast and book writers and listeners and readers. I don't actually have a favorite book because I'm just getting started. So I am interested in hearing about other people and the books that they might recommend