![]() I had no problem listening to that sexy voice of his for hours. MM is a talented actor, a dedicated family man & a heck of a good writer & narrator. It’s also a guide to catching more greenlights - and to realizing that the yellows and reds eventually turn green, too.ĪLRIGHT ALRIGHT ALRIGHT - I LOVE THIS BOOK! Hopefully, it’s medicine that tastes good, a couple of aspirin instead of the infirmary, a spaceship to Mars without needing your pilot’s license, going to church without having to be born again, and laughing through the tears. Getting away withs, getting caughts, and getting wets while trying to dance between the raindrops. Graces, truths, and beauties of brutality. This is fifty years of my sights and seens, felts and figured-outs, cools and shamefuls. So I took a one-way ticket to the desert and wrote this book: an album, a record, a story of my life so far. I found a reliable theme, an approach to living that gave me more satisfaction, at the time, and still: If you know how, and when, to deal with life’s challenges - how to get relative with the inevitable - you can enjoy a state of success I call “catching greenlights.” I found stories I experienced, lessons I learned and forgot, poems, prayers, prescriptions, beliefs about what matters, some great photographs, and a whole bunch of bumper stickers. Recently, I worked up the courage to sit down with those diaries. ![]() Notes about successes and failures, joys and sorrows, things that made me marvel, and things that made me laugh out loud. I’ve been in this life for 50 years, been trying to work out its riddle for 42, and been keeping diaries of clues to that riddle for the last 35. “McConaughey’s book invites us to grapple with the lessons of his life as he did - and to see that the point was never to win, but to understand.” (Mark Manson, author of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck ) Named One of the Best Books of the Year by The Guardian Discover the life-changing memoir that has inspired millions of readers through the Academy Award®-winning actor’s unflinching honesty, unconventional wisdom, and lessons learned the hard way about living with greater satisfaction.14 reader comments on travel, and what books to bring on vacation. ![]() What audiobooks are you loving these days? We’d love to hear your thoughts! Personally, the last audiobook I listened to was The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe when I was eight, so I’m ready to take notes! And, of course, David Sedaris and Mindy Kaling are always hilarious.” I recently enjoyed Wow, No Thank You by Samantha Irby and Please Don’t Sit On My Bed in Your Outside Clothes by Phoebe Robinson. They know how to deliver their jokes in a way that makes the books even funnier. I asked Joanna, too, and she said, “I always love when comedians read their memoirs or essays. In the top photo, Paula is on the left, Marie right.įirst off, congrats on your dream job and this exciting transition! Second, you’ve come to the right place, because if there’s one thing our readers have, it’s stellar book recommendations. I love lots of character development, where you get inside their heads.) We would love the CoJ community’s recommendations. (To give you an idea of our book tastes, Paula’s favorite recent read was Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro and mine was Free Food for Millionaires by Min Jin Lee. My best friend, Paula, is driving with me, and we’d love to queue up audiobooks, but we’re not sure where to start. “Hi CoJ team! My name is Marie, and I’m moving cross-country (Boston to San Francisco) to start my dream job at an organization called La Cocina. Earlier this week, one of our own asked an important question…
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |