• Engage

    “This book will make you feel better about your own life”

    I’ve been feeling a bit like a prisoner in my own home lately. And you? Tired of reading article..article…article…article…, I knew I needed a shot of bigger perspective. So I picked up a book I’ve been meaning to read for a long time–One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. Written by Russian Nobel Prize winner Alexander Solzhenitsyn and based on his own experience in the Gulag, Siberia’s network of “corrective labor camps,” I thought it might afford me a bit of a reality check on what it really means to feel like a prisoner. And it has. But not by pounding me with horrific word pictures of torture, despair…