They aren't exactly challenging reflections. And that solipsism, only in the background for "The End of Your Life Book Club," is front and center all throughout "Books for Living," which centers each of its chapters on a different book and draws a series of reflections from each. If the book had one overriding flaw, it was solipsism – the background assumption that the worth of a book is intrinsically bound up in how useful a particular reader finds its contents for addressing particular needs at particular moments. The title of Will Schwalbe's new book, Books for Living, is a nod to its predecessor, the bestseller that shot this author to prominence, his 2012 "The End of Your Life Book Club." That earlier book recounted the unexpected process of Schwalbe connecting on personal levels with his mother as they read the same books together during the months she was dying of pancreatic cancer Schwalbe used that personal connection to draw out some encouraging observations about the redemptive potential of reading, even in the face of tragedy. What will he change? Even at this stage of his career, he can still change hearts, offering emphatic testimony that soccer is indeed the beautiful game. Messi can be enjoyed by a nation that now has some appropriate appreciation of his genius. Here is a man who has a rightful place in the conversation about the best players ever to kick a soccer ball. When Pelé came to the United States in 1975, he was 50 years too early. He shows that MLS has arrived, or that it is still just a rest home for stars past their prime. To this, I might say: Who cares? None of us really have any clue what effect Mr. Messi is simply cashing in one last time before retirement. Messi’s arrival will be a watershed moment for American soccer, or Mr. When the world is gripped in the first giddy moments of excitement, we often either bathe in the rosy glow of optimism or assume the practiced role of the skeptic. Messi’s career. At such a momentous moment, it is natural to ask momentous questions. At the end of one of the most storied careers in soccer history, the legend and World Cup hero is coming to Miami to play in Major League Soccer. Here is where we in the press insert countless breathless and portentous stories about what this means for American soccer, for America’s top professional league, and for Mr. By this point, many of you will have heard.
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