Introvert Book Club discussion

Feel free to write any thoughts or feelings you have about Solitude. (Thanks Sherry for the book recommendation).

Has anyone else started reading this? I'm not done with it but I like it so far and love how it's very pro-solitude.

ordered it. The blurb sounds Buddhish.

I read it years ago, before Introversion was a common *thing* in my head/life. I really liked the way he made it seem a preferable/desirable thing. NOT some freakish abnormality that I should run to the nearest shrink and get cured. Thoreau was the same. They made it seem like solitude was a state to achieve. I came away from these writers feeling that I was *normal*, in my own eyes. :) Society was never so kind. And now, it sits prominently on a shelf with all my other Introversion/Psychology/Self-Help books and just seeing the cover of these books at a glance fuels my inner OK-ness/inner strength.

Janice wrote: "ordered it. The blurb sounds Buddhish."

I wouldn't say it's Buddhist. Much of the book is analyzing the role solitude has played in famous creative people's lives.

Sherry wrote: "fuels my inner OK-ness/inner strength. "

That's lovely. It's wonderful that there's so many pro-introvert books out right now.

No worries. It's not the easiest text to read.

I'm still trying to get back to Quiet..so don't feel bad. Funny how I get a case of Oh Look! Squirrel! when it comes to books ;)