The Mockingbird: Issue 20

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FOR THE RECORD

On Our Bookshelf

Gods, Grades, and Graduation by Ilana Horwitz A researcher of Evangelical Christianity and higher education, Ilana Horwitz finds that students with “religious restrictions” self-select colleges below what their grades would qualify them for. Are Evangelicals failing to live up to their educational potential, or are they successfully living out their faith’s insistence that status isn’t what makes us happy?

About Success & Failure

Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell A classic, instantly quotable book that “debunks rugged individualism.” Invesigating “the story of success,” Gladwell exposes the many influences that amount to a person’s prosperity. Spoiler: it never comes about from hard work alone. Foreverland by Heather Havrilesky This perceptive, quick-witted memoir on the highs and lows of marriage begins with this: “Every book about marriage is also a book about mortality, since the success of any marriage is defined not by happiness or good fortune but by death. The assignment, after all, is to stay together until you die. Once one spouse perishes, the marriage has succeeded.” Ha…! For a fresh, funny assessment of an age-old institution, look no further.

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Ready or Not by Madeline Levine Few things are as certain as the uncertainty of the future. In light of that, Madeline Levine’s Ready or Not explores our deep misvaluation of metricsbased prestige, and points instead to the timeless values that can stabilize us over the long-term, like resilience, compassion, and empathy. This is an excellent follow-up to Levine’s parenting tour-de-force Teach Your Children Well. The End of Burnout by Jonathan Malesic “Burnout” has become the go-to word to describe any feeling of work-related exhaustion. But there is more to it. In this personal yet thoroughly researched book, Malesic explores why work can’t be as fulfilling as we’ve been told it should be. And he reveals that Total Work is a demon which no mere time management solutions can exorcize.

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