"Raised Eyebrows" is an invigorating read.
Halfway through the eight-hour excursion, a picnic lunch is served by an emerald glacial lake where guests have been known to jump into for an invigorating (read: freezing) swim.
If you are an artist who is less inclined to brandish a middle finger at the industry -- as Prince did -- or are not yet in a position to do so, then Rachel Moore's new book, The Artist's Compass, may be an invigorating read.
But it's invigorating, as reading should be.
It is heartening and invigorating, therefore, to read Rebecca Traister's* Big Girls Don't Cry, which makes a persuasive case not just for the arguments and perspectives it sets forth about gender and the 2008 elections, but also for the very existence of the genre it confidently inhabits.
This is not to imply her writing is soporific or dull; on the contrary, the frequent bursts of pleasure that come from reading such sweet clarity are invigorating.
Listening to Stiglitz one-to-one, like reading him, is an invigorating experience.
Reading him is a wonderfully disorienting experience, not least because of the odd, invigorating uncertainty as to what it is, precisely, we are reading.
I always loved his opinions on the context of the race relations back when he would come on HuffPost Live and to read it in book form is invigorating.
This technique demands alert reading, but in turn creates an invigorating double-lensed perspective, a kind of immersed detachment.
