3 thin books for girls with big brains

3 thin books for girls with big brains. First is In Praise of Shadows by Junichiro Tanizaki. Depending on your edition, it's between 56 and 73 pages. It's an essay on Japanese aesthetics, moves from architecture to food to lacquerware under candlelight, and his whole argument is that beauty doesn't live in the object itself, but in the shadow that it casts. If you work in anything visual, I think it will entirely change the way that you think. Second is Things I Don't Wanna Know from Deborah Levy. It is 103 pages and it's a response to George Orwell's essay on reasons why I write. So Orwell lists four reasons in his essay, and Levy takes the same four questions and answers them from a woman's perspective. It's the first of three, so if you love it, there's also more for you to read after. Third is The Sovereignty of Good from Iris Murdoch. 106 pages, three lectures. Her argument is that morality is not about some big choice, it is about what you pay attention to every single day, because attention is what forms the person who eventually makes the choice. She calls this unselfing. So save this for your next library trip and hit follow for more videos just like it.