Life, in a Nutshell - Softcover

Brauer, Chris

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ISBN 10: 1777349702 ISBN 13: 9781777349707

Publisher: ISBN Canada, 2020

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Chris Brauer has been writing a lot, lately – about all sorts of stuff.

He's been writing about walking mindfully through the old growth forests of British Columbia, and stopping to admire the magic and mystery of the natural world. He's been writing about finding joy in the little things that make up a day, and about being grateful for the guidance of all creatures great and small, and about the kindness of strangers. He's been writing love poetry.

But Life, in a Nutshell features very little of that.

While the author spends a significant portion of his day in quiet contemplation, he also spends much of it teaching elementary school, grocery shopping, hanging out with his wife and two sons, or just wandering aimlessly alone.

And this is when all sorts of things happen to him. Not major, life-altering things. Funny things. Awkward things.

So he started writing them down in a brown leather journal he bought while strolling around Pike Place Market in Seattle. It’s very nice.

Life, in a Nutshell is a diary, of sorts. Certainly not like the important diaries of Anne Frank and Samuel Pepys. More like the diaries of David Sedaris and Karl Pilkington.

While this little book (named after a song by Barenaked Ladies) is not a philosophical treatise, the fifty entries – anecdotes, observations, overheard conversation, jokes, memories – paint a picture of someone who constantly, against better judgment, approaches modern life with a certain amount of innocence and naivety.

It is penned by someone who often catches himself whispering, “How hard can it be? What’s the worst that could happen?”

Well… you’re about to find out.

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