You might have noticed that I’ve been pretty inactive on my blog for the past few weeks. That’s because for most of May, I’ve been working on reading books by Brené Brown, a shame researcher who has written a number of best-selling self-help books. A teacher of mine who’s been helping me work on my mental and emotional wellbeing recently recommended that I read her work. I figured that a blog post about how these books are helping me would be a good way for me to reflect on my progress so far.
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I was shelving books in the teen section at my bookstore job, as I do almost every night at work now, and I spotted among the nonfiction books a thick book whose cover was rendered in soft pastels, with the image of two lines of young girls figure skating, and the word “Spinning” in thick, purple cursive.
I Am I Am I Am: Seventeen Brushes With Death by Maggie O’Farrell is a collection of interconnected personal essays—described by O’Farrell as an attempt to “write a life, told only through near-death experiences.” Write a life she does. Each chapter, titled with a body part related to a cause of near-death, weaves together different moments in O’Farrell’s life that shaped her into the person she has become.
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