#35: Reading Through the Seasons of Life with Jessica
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Today we are talking with a friend from my Book Club, Jessica. Jessica is a wife, and busy mom of two who loves to read. She uses books as a way to connect with others through Book Club, and says she became closer with her best friend from dental school through trips to Costco and Barnes & Noble together. In this episode, Jessica expresses how her reading journey has evolved throughout all of life’s seasons. She reads different genres based on what was happening in her life. Jessica expresses the value of rereading books and seeing how her perspective changes as she reads them through a new lens. No matter what season of life you are currently in, I hope this episode encourages you to pick up a book. And, I hope that book is exactly what you need in this season.
Episode Highlights:
● Being a busy wife and mom of two
● Love for reading
● Rereading books and seeing them through a new perspective
● Being a part of a book club
● Reading for different reasons
● Reading through different seasons
● Cal Newport Deep Questions podcast
● Find a complete list of books and authors mentioned on the podcast episode page
Books & Authors Mentioned:
● Classics - Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
● Classics - For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
● Nancy Drew series by Carolyn Keene
● Deep Work by Cal Newport
● Mystery - Mary Higgins Clark and Agatha Christie
● Mystery - Pelican Brief, The Firm, and A Time To Kill by John Grisham
● John Grisham writing process - starts Jan 1st (not Jan 8th like I said in the episode)
● Classics - Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
● Classics - John Steinbeck, Sylvia Plath, Leo Tolstoy, and Shakespeare
● Classics - Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
● Classics - Dostoevsky - Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
● Post apocalyptic - The Hunger Games series and Twilight series
● Popular fiction - John Scalzi and The Passage by Justin Cronin
● Thriller - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
● Thriller - Gone Girl and Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
● The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel
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