Name: The Sweetness of Life
ISBN: 9780062291042

Francoise Heritier

A celebration of the small, sweet moments that make life worth living—and the importance of taking the time to savor them

The Sweetness of Life

Amy Thibodeau

This is a lovely little book listing all the sensual pleasures the writer can remember experiencing in her life. 

"This book is a plea for us to recognize not simply the small, artless influence of childhood but the whole complex affective domain that forms and continues to form us, sensitive beings that we are. A plea for us not to be simply obsessed by targets--careers to be created, enterprises to be undertaken, profits to be secured--while losing sight of the I who entered the arena in the first place. A plea for us to understand that the profound engine of curiosity is at work in us, sustaining the ever renewed feat of living, the benevolence and empathetic or critical and constituent view that I take of the world all around me." 

I really enjoyed reading this on my commute to work, when everything was cramped and hot and horrible. It's a nice book with a wonderful list. Quite experimental though, with no narrative arch to speak of.

The Sweetness of Life

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