Has a book ever inspired you to change anything in your life, fiction or non-fiction alike?
Oh, yes. Books constantly inspire me to be a better person and pursue my goals in an efficient way. Immediately rising to the top of the heap at the moment are Natalie Angier’s Woman, which really made me rethink aging in a female body and actually embrace it, and This Book is Overdue!, which made me seriously consider librarianship, to the point that if I attend grad school at all, it’ll be for library science. But every book inspires me in small ways, whether to be a better person or just never to write like that.
I never thought about inspiration as “change.” I don’t know why. I’ve definitely been inspired by books over the years (to write, to do something out of the ordinary, etc.). Thanks for putting new perspective in it for me!
http://www.talesbetweenthepages.com/booking-through-thursday-changes/
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For sure; Carl Sagan’s Contact, Billions and Billions, and The Varieties of Scientific Experience all changed my life. So has practically everything I’ve read from Kim Stanley Robinson, Takuan Soho,… where do you stop! Great short post to get you thinking!
Fantastic!
I agree, they are all influences in some small or major way.
In a way, we truly are what we eat.🙂
I haven’t heard about either of these books!
Here’s mine:
http://abookishaffair.blogspot.com/2012/04/booking-through-thursday-changes.html
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I haven’t found that one book yet.
http://tributebooksmama.blogspot.com/2012/04/booking-through-thursday_26.html
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They both seem like really cool books😉
http://carabosseslibrary.blogspot.com/2012/04/booking-through-thursday_26.html
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