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On Being Me: A Personal Invitation to Philosophy (2020) by J. David Velleman

Recommended to me by my social worker given that they know I think about, and struggle with, some of the larger questions in life. Given how much I 'live in my head,' my counsellor thought I might enjoy this read.

I couldn't take it.

I struggled with the chaotic nature of jumping from one thought to the next that the author conveyed on the pages. While each section of the book focused on a specific topic or idea, how they tried to craft a narrative surrounding each idea was very challenging to follow. This isn't to say that the book isn't good or not worth reading, just that given how I prefer to read and consume books I struggled to stay engaged with this book and the thoughts the author was offering up.

I did appreciate that from the outset of the book the author made it very clear that this was a personal work and that there would be no emphasis on facts, research, or citations; that anyone looking for these things could easily find them in one of the their more academic works.