By turns silly and serious (with an occasionally heavy dose of Buddhist thought thrown in), “It’s Not You” provides a cheering reminder that life is complicated, and so are people. Cant you appear some morning with a dust rag a million miles in surface. Now happily married, Eckel heard all the digs - you’re too picky, you’re too negative, you’re too demanding, you’re too intimidating - and now, in handy book format, she obliterates them, one by one. DICK path, all I wanted to do was to keep my job. “I don’t have a PhD or a reality show.” What Eckel brings to this slight but disarmingly honest book is her own experience as a single woman fielding (unsolicited) advice about her situation. It’s Not You: 27 (Wrong) Reasons You’re Single In the Oedipus tragedy, Ferry writes, we can see the Greek case for “accepting the absurdity of things as they are” while his daughter Antigone’s struggle against political and social strictures heralds “the early ferment of a humanism to come.” The beauty of these tales goes beyond the poetic, he asserts with their unstinting focus on making sense of life as it is and how we can live it best, they are “bearers of a profound and coherent body of wisdom.” A professor of philosophy at the Sorbonne and former French minister of education, Ferry writes with warmth, wit, and energy one could call his prose conversational, but it’s rare to have a conversation quite this wonderful.
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