Example of Jack’s Personal Reading Habits
More than remission, page 11
So in the spring and early summer I did what writers do. I read other writers. Lots of them. Some of it was fascinating stuff. From Warren Farell's “Why Men Are the Way The Are,” I learned that romance writing and reading is big business in the U.S. He reports, "The number of women who read romance novels--25 million--is almost fifty times greater than the number of men. readers." I admired Leo Buscaglia's celebration of love in his Living, Learning, and Loving (all heart) and thought what a contrast this book makes with Eric Fromm's cool Art of Loving (all head). I studied Sigmund Freud's detached, rational analysis of love in his Civilization and its Discontents, and made full notes on Arthur Miller's After the Fall, a play dramatizing the intense pain of disintegrating married love.
Location: Example From Before Cancer Diagnosis