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This Week’s Word Is “Living.”
These are uncertain times. I hope that wherever you are reading this, you and your loved ones are safe and self-isolation isn’t driving you too crazy. My planned review book for this week is Make a Living Living, a book about how to follow your dreams and make a living out of it.
On the one hand, with so much uncertainty (literally) in the air, it might be a terrible time to launch into a flight of fancy project. On the other, you may have lots of time on your hands, so why not let your imagination run riot and work out what you really want to do with your life?
What is Make a Living Living?
This sort of book will not be to everyone’s taste. I’m not entirely sure it’s to mine. It sounds like a new-age hipster manifesto about throwing off the shackles of white-collar oppression and becoming an alpaca farmer. And, to an extent, it is. If you were in any doubt about this, there’s a guy with a massive beard throwing a pot on the back cover.
This book probably isn’t the sort of thing a risk-averse, middle-aged, parent of three usually reads, but I picked it up because, despite being risk-averse, I am something of a dreamer. In my 40s, I’ve found something I love doing — YouTube videos, of all things.
