The Well-Read Life
Our culture has undergone seismic changes in the last twenty years since the introduction of the iPhone. The way we read has fundamentally changed. In The Well-Read Life, Marcie Stokman and Colleen Hutt explain how we can transform our lives by taking back our leisure time, putting down our phones, feeding our imaginations and cultivating intentional friendships. If you are new to a reading practice and don’t know where to begin or a seasoned reader, you will be helped by the sharing of practical wisdom and transformational stories.
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The Well-Read Life offers practical, inspiring advice to experience deep reading and friendship and connect with the goodness, truth, and beauty that leads us ever closer to God, the source of all things. Their guidance on reading well will help you set and achieve your reading goals, create a space to learn and grow at your own pace, and connect with others who are also searching for meaningful conversation.
Publisher: Ave Maria Press
Release Date: September 13, 2024
5.5 x 8.5 paperback – 160 pages
ISBN: 9781646803200
Nourish Your Soul & Reclaim Leisure
Imagine recovering time for yourself by putting your phone down and feeding your imagination and intellect through reading great books. The Well-Read Life: Nourish Your Soul through Deep Reading and Intentional Friendship is a step-by-step personal guide to reading well and reading often. No matter where you start, you can succeed—taking small but determined steps in the company of like-minded friends.
In The Well-Read Life, Marcie Stokman, founder of Well-Read Mom—a rapidly growing women’s book club—and Colleen Hutt, director of vision and outreach, offer practical, inspiring advice based on their own experiences and the experiences of others just like you to help you rediscover the importance of reading and setting your own reading goals.
Step by step, the authors show you how to:
- Identify and reclaim leisure (time and space) so that reading time becomes the best, most anticipated part of your day.
- Help yourself to read well by understanding and applying what you read in a way that allows you to set and achieve your personal definition of success.
- Rebuild and strengthen your intellectual, imaginative, and spiritual capacities by recognizing the cultural practices associated with the digital age that have changed the way we process information.
- Make room in your life for things that matter—the ideas and images based on goodness, truth, and beauty that lead us ever closer to God.
Each chapter contains down-to-earth advice on how to step away from your screen and create a space to learn and grow at your own pace, free of guilt and pressure. Action steps at the end of each chapter will help you set and achieve your reading goals, evaluate worthwhile reads, overcome reader’s block, and find out more about reading groups near you.
Discover the liberation and confidence that come from exploring and understanding the moral imagination and creative genius of the literary greats of the ages. Through great and worthy books, you will begin to reclaim your life—and your world—and make room for all that is good, true, and beautiful.