10 BEST BOOKS FOR BEING MORE OPTIMISTIC AND BUILDING A BRIGHTER OUTLOOK ON LIFE

Here's what I used to think about optimism: it was for people who hadn't paid.

Here's what I used to think about optimism: it was for people who hadn't paid.

My oldest daughter Siobhan turned twelve last year, and I made the mistake of asking her what she wanted for her birthday. She said she wanted a book, which is.

This isn't as dramatic as it sounds. I was a literature graduate student — I read constantly. But somewhere between the required syllabi and the critical.

I spent eight months not writing anything worth keeping. Not a journal entry, not a letter, not even a text message longer than three sentences. The cursor.

There is a particular grief that has no name — or rather, it has a name, but you don't learn it until you're in it. It's the grief of finishing a book you.