圖書標籤: 成長 外國文學 人生清單 人文 NONFICTION
发表于2024-12-26
I Miss You When I Blink pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024
One of 2019’s Most Anticipated Books: BuzzFeed, Bustle, HelloGiggles, LitHub, She Reads
Acclaimed essayist and bookseller Mary Laura Philpott presents a charmingly relatable and wise memoir-in-essays about what happened after she checked off all the boxes on her successful life’s to-do list and realized she might need to reinvent the list—and herself.
Mary Laura Philpott thought she’d cracked the code: Always be right, and you’ll always be happy.
But once she’d completed her life’s to-do list (job, spouse, house, babies—check!), she found that instead of feeling content and successful, she felt anxious. Lost. Stuck in a daily grind of overflowing calendars, grueling small talk, and sprawling traffic. She’d done everything “right,” but she felt all wrong. What’s the worse failure, she wondered: smiling and staying the course, or blowing it all up and running away? And are those the only options?
In this memoir-in-essays full of spot-on observations about home, work, and creative life, Philpott takes on the conflicting pressures of modern adulthood with wit and heart. She offers up her own stories to show that identity crises don’t happen just once or only at midlife; reassures us that small, recurring personal re-inventions are both normal and necessary; and advises that if you’re going to faint, you should get low to the ground first. Most of all, Philpott shows that when you stop feeling satisfied with your life, you don’t have to burn it all down and set off on a transcontinental hike (unless you want to, of course). You can call upon your many selves to figure out who you are, who you’re not, and where you belong. Who among us isn’t trying to do that?
Like a pep talk from a sister, I Miss You When I Blink is the funny, poignant, and deeply affecting book you’ll want to share with all your friends, as you learn what Philpott has figured out along the way: that multiple things can be true of us at once—and that sometimes doing things wrong is the way to do life right.
Mary Laura Philpott writes essays that examine the overlap of the absurd and the profound in everyday life. Her writing has been featured in print or online by The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, McSweeney’s, The Paris Review, and other publications. She’s the founding editor of Musing, the online magazine of Parnassus Books, as well as an Emmy-winning cohost of the show A Word on Words on Nashville Public Television. She also wrote and illustrated the humor book Penguins with People Problems, a quirky look at the embarrassments of being human. Mary Laura lives in Nashville with her family.
三十幾歲的時候要再讀一讀。
評分上周末經過火車站看到這本新書,評價不錯。簡介大概是說作者雖然有傢庭有娃有事業,為何還是覺得不對勁,於是就下單瞭。有些章節很有意思,作者也確實很實誠,把自己的人生故事、苦惱、想法和盤托齣。讀起來很輕鬆,同時讓人迴顧反思自己的經曆和想法。modern adulthood真是不容易啊!!
評分很矯情:在讀的時候覺得很高級是一本剋服如何走齣depression的書,但是跟同事們一交流發現就是一本自怨自艾的書。一生不缺錢,父母老公小孩都安好,輕微強迫癥怎麼就中年危機瞭呢怎麼就抑鬱瞭呢,嗬嗬。
評分三十幾歲的時候要再讀一讀。
評分很矯情:在讀的時候覺得很高級是一本剋服如何走齣depression的書,但是跟同事們一交流發現就是一本自怨自艾的書。一生不缺錢,父母老公小孩都安好,輕微強迫癥怎麼就中年危機瞭呢怎麼就抑鬱瞭呢,嗬嗬。
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I Miss You When I Blink pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024