THE NEW YEAR OLD VIBE

BOOKWORM OR NOT, QH LISTS 5 TITLES TO WATCH OUT FOR

There’s more information out there than we handle, but the saving grace is these writers who take the trouble to go where few would venture to bring us insight, perspective and multi-layered view of the world we live in. We are past January, but it si strongly recommended that one of your New Year resolutions should always include reading more. So here’s a very brief list of our editor’s pick of five for the month – last two of which are due out in March.

Bloodbath Nation

By Paul Auster

In this searing work, Auster traces centuries of America's use and abuse of guns, from the violent displacement of the native population to the forced enslavement of millions, to the bitter divide between embattled gun control and anti-gun control camps that has developed over the past 50 years and the mass shootings that dominate the news today.

THE GOOD LIFE: LESSONS FROM THE WORLD’S LONGEST SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF HAPPINESS

By Robert Waldinger and Marc Schulz

The invaluable insights in this book emerge from the revealing personal stories of hundreds of participants in the Harvard Study as they were followed year after year for their entire adult lives, and this wisdom is bolstered by research findings from this and many other studies.

SAVING TIME: DISCOVERING A LIFE BEYOND THE CLOCK

By Jenny Odell

Saving Time tugs at the seams of reality as we know it—the way we experience time itself—and rearranges it, imagining a world not centred on work, the office clock, or the profit motive. Odell masterfully dissects the origins of our many destructive beliefs while also offering a way for us to be free of them.

By Prince Harry

In this record breaking 416-page memoir of 2023, Prince Harry tells his version of the story about the tragic death of his mother Princess Diana, life within the royal family and his marriage to Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, with remarkable candour and directness.

POVERTY, BY AMERICA

By Matthew Desmond

In this landmark book, acclaimed sociologist Matthew Desmond draws on history, research, and original reporting to show how affluent Americans knowingly and unknowingly keep poor people poor.