What Might Make Someone Interested in Hearing Your Thoughts About a Book?
Written by Joanna Zuno 07/22/2021
Ever had a quick conversation in the hallway and discussed what you were quickly doing in your spare time? Did you mention reading? Did you mention books? Was that person keen on knowing more but you didn’t have enough time to elaborate on? Well, this article will explain how you can narrow down your thought process and be more explanatory while expressing your emotions.
First Tell an Anecdote on How You Discovered the Book
We want the person we’re talking to to know how genuine we are when it comes to what drives us emotionally and intellectually towards a book. Most of the time, it’s practical, we see it, read a little and then choose it. But if the person you’re talking to still thinks you’re an enigma of sorts, then discuss what drew you in. I had actually got a coworker friend of mine to read Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard because i had discussed watching author Liz Murray’s interview years ago, and was inspired by her persistence to continue her full education despite difficult circumstance. This emotional outlook got my coworker to read the book.
Share the Biggest Emotional Expressions You Had in The Reading
When my coworker reached certain chapters I shared my emotions for comparison. I asked her if she felt the internal struggles of Liz Murray like I did, or if she saw it in an external viewpoint. We also discussed circumstances and how each one of us would resolve, react or behave in them and gave our own conclusions. Expressing how you emotionally feel when reading a book can meet on a level with other people.
Introduce the Overall Topic and Concepts to Start an Intellectual Discussion
The Liz Murrary story overall was about an outlier’s survival in the boroughs of New York when her parents were mentally unfit to take care of her, to the point she had to find ways to move forward with her education career. It’s a “triumph over adversity” story, something me and my coworker friend were fond of as a subject, and we again, addressed her at the end of the book. We went into further what was our mental draw into books like these: Was it the persistence? Was it the circumstances? Or how we admired them for leaving their small beginnings? Could we possibly like more books like this? Do we admire those who make something, by scraping by in their shortcomings? Something we can’t do? Once I doled out these questions with her it then became picking each other's brains of what other comparable curiosities we had with other books with similar topics.
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