John Leland (4) (1959–)
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John Leland is a reporter and author, born in 1959. He is a graduate of Columbia College. His career includes senior editor at Newsweek, editor in chief at Details, music critic at Newsday, and an original columnist at SPIN magazine. In 2000 he began working at the New York Times, covering a wide visa mer range of topics as a Metro reporter. He is the author of Hip: The History (2004), Why Kerouac Matters: The Lessons of 'On the Road' (2007), and Happiness Is a Choice You Make: Lessons from a Year among the Oldest Old (2018). (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
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Happiness Is a Choice You Make: Lessons from a Year… av John Leland
I hope that people don't dismiss Happiness Is a Choice You Make as another bit of platitudinous fluff based on the title. It is by far the best non-fiction book I've read this year. If you can get a paper copy as well as the audiobook, I highly recommend it. I started out reading a library copy, and loved seeing pictures of "the elders," but life got in the way of my having enough time to sit and make much progress with it, so I downloaded it on Audible and finished up that way. The narrator (who is not the author) does a great job, and has a warm, pleasing voice, but the surprise at the end is really what made the audio copy worth any price you pay.… (mer)
Being in the moment, enjoying what I have, and not lamenting what I don't are all lessons I can get behind. I don't gain anything by wishing circumstances were different.
What a lovely book about being very old.
I recently read an article by John Leland and it was so well written I decided to see if he had written any books. I found this one, and it is lovely.
He spent a year with six very different, very old people, and wrote about what he learned from them. I learned a great deal from them in the process myself.
I am not very old yet, but I am old enough to see my life changing already, and this book tells me it’s not what I imagine.
A clear, candid, thoughtful book that was a pleasure to read. Recommended.… (mer)
I recently read an article by John Leland and it was so well written I decided to see if he had written any books. I found this one, and it is lovely.
He spent a year with six very different, very old people, and wrote about what he learned from them. I learned a great deal from them in the process myself.
I am not very old yet, but I am old enough to see my life changing already, and this book tells me it’s not what I imagine.
A clear, candid, thoughtful book that was a pleasure to read. Recommended.… (mer)
This is pretty good. I liked the lessons he took away from the elderly people. However, I thought he made himself part of the story a bit too much. I understand that he needed to explain the perspective he had when doing the interviews and forming conclusions, but he weaved himself into those conclusions more than necessary.
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