Today I'm going to tell you about a book. Now this isn’t the kind of book I usually talk about, write about or in fact read. This books is different from most things I like. This is, however, a book that I couldn’t put down. I was listening, like I so often do, to the Otherppl podcast. Brad Listi was interviewing Ayobami Adebayo. Now Listi is a great interviewer and I always enjoy listening to his interviews but this one was especially pleasant and it immediately let me to d

I’ve always been a bit jealous of people who say they have a book that changed their lives in a fundamental way. I love books, but for the longest time I didn’t have that. I had no book that single handedly changed the way I thought or changed the way I was or wanted to be, not in any fundamental way I thought. I’ve loved many books and while they have made a strong impact I couldn’t say with good conscience that I ever read a book that really changed my life. Or so I thought