Books that changed your life

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Permalink Reply by Boston on August 11, 2010 at 5:53pm

I also loved Eat Pray Love, and Rachel Shukert's "Everything is Going to Be Great" is similar to it in the sense that it chronicles a woman's real life travels (around Europe, this time - mostly living in Amsterdam). But I found it even more relatable than Eat Pray Love because Shukert is just out of college, stumbling through life, not really sure what she's doing. Plus, she's really slutty. And she puts a HILARIOUS spin on everything. Best part of all, it has a happy ending.

"Swahili for the Broken-Hearted" by Peter Moore is also a really great travel read. He's just broken up with his girlfriend, so he decides to travel around Africa for a year. Maybe I liked it because I traveled to a lot of the same places (thankfully before I read it), but I think it was more than that - he's a good writer who cleverly balances descriptions of places, funny anecdotes, and reality in his stories.

Permalink Reply by Kevin Patrick Murray on August 18, 2010 at 6:01pm

"Ishmael" by Daniel Quinn and "The Life of Pi" by Yann Martel changed the way I think pretty drastically.

Permalink Reply by Maria Celina on September 16, 2010 at 6:12am

Seconding the motion to the brilliance that is Yann Martel's Life of Pi. I've read it more than a hundred times, and I've experienced the book differently with each read.

Permalink Reply by Smart Ass Sara on August 19, 2010 at 10:13pm

I can't remember if I've commented on this thread yet. But here are three books that have maybe not changed my life, but made me definitely think about life a little bit differently: (I linked them to reviews I did on my blog)

The Leisure Seeker- Michael Zadoorian
The Girl From Charnelle- K.L. Cook
Lies My Mother Never Told Me- Kaylie Jones

Permalink Reply by Usefultruth0408 on August 21, 2010 at 12:40am

Three books in particular have help me gain some perspective in life

1) A Separate Peace showed me there was more to the world than high school
2) The Turn of the Screw showed me there was more to thought than reality
3) Cry, the Beloved Country showed me there was more to this world than present-day United States

(Sorry about the lack of current books)

Permalink Reply by cynthia pena on August 23, 2010 at 10:54am

Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom. an absolute tearjerker. Made me appreciate my life more.. :)

Permalink Reply by Garnet Flower on August 31, 2010 at 12:29pm

Like most people who responded here, I did absolutely love Eat, Pray, Love (although I will probably hate the movie), and I can't wait to read her new book, Committed.

A few weeks ago I finished up a book called Picking Cotton which was written by a rape survivor and the man her testimony put in prison for 11 years for a crime he didn't commit. IT WAS AMAZING. I strongly, strongly recommend it. Essentially, it's a story about human strength and forgiveness, but also looks at psychology and the validity of eye witnesses, especially if they have experienced a traumatic event.

Happy reading!

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