This past week I read A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggars. The novel was published back in early 2000. Eggar’s writing style is very modern and highly entertaining. Story centers around the early adulthood of the narrator who deals with the death of both of his parents due to cancer at the age of 22, and follows the forced coming-of-age situation he is placed in as a result (raising his youngest brother as a father figure, making immense career / life choices in light of this, tackling his own mental health issues and obsessive compulsive disorder, and supporting those in his direct circle who struggle with the same and more). This was recommended by my younger brother a few years ago, and I could not have picked it up at a better time in my own life.
Next up is Meditations by Marcus Aurelius (try to reread once a year), and Coarse Gold by Edwin Corle (my wife found this one in one of those “take a book leave a book” baskets in a Starbucks by our apartment).
Thank you kindly for reading ,
- mike
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Books of 2024
Stella Maris by Cormac McCarthy - 1.5.24
Where the Blue Begins by Christopher Morley - 1.10.24
Mastery by Robert Greene (audio) - 1.12.24
The Three Theban Plays by Sophocles - 1.12.24
Is God Real? by Lee Strobel - 1.14.24
Tennyson’s Poems by Lord Alfred Tennyson - 1.18.24
Big Two-Hearted River by Ernest Hemingway - 1.20.24
Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey - 1.25.24
The Trial by Franz Kafka - 2.2.24
A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking - 2.8.24
Selected Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2.29.24
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius - 3.8.24