4.24 avg rating — 535 ratings

"as an only child whose mind wandered often to consider how things might be if the world was different, rummaging through this book confirmed a lifelong interest in how we think. "

3.81 avg rating — 240 ratings

"I gave this book to my wife when we first met back in 1996. I was studying medieval archaeology and it is one book of fiction to capture my imagination from start to finish."

3.94 avg rating — 5,802 ratings

"I read this when I was working in the Design Faculty at of a university - helped me discover how to 'read' art as life, and the other way round as well.
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3.56 avg rating — 27 ratings

"a female contemporary of Dewey, her name was Violet Paget, she wrote about perception, invented the English word 'empathy' and gave me insight into how we see and understand. "

3.89 avg rating — 2,895 ratings

"esp. the chapter on the Return of the Middle Ages, helped me get behind the imagery and ideas in the Name of the Rose, which I read, but enjoy Eco the semiotician more."

4.18 avg rating — 509 ratings

"Could just as easily voted for The Novel of the Future - and her diaries. I have been fascinated with her writing for ages - love how she writes about being human, with honesty, and that certain European lack of constraint."

3.85 avg rating — 4,369 ratings

"while really a novel it was like reading a book of ideas; I love the way she uses words to both challenge and open your mind, and explore what it means to be human and desire to be loved. "

4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings

"And - Cottage and Garden - the way I get things into my head is by getting my hands in dirt, shaping and building with stone, creating paths and spaces that balance the journey inside our heads."

4.30 avg rating — 3,902 ratings

"an extraordinary man in an unimaginable situation, living through humanities darkest hour, and yet able to cling to faith, not as a cliche, but a visceral and and very human reality. I appreciate the man for his honesty, and his experiences."

4.31 avg rating — 1,208 ratings

"I have been reading this book for 25 years and keep coming back to it to make sense of how our human thinking fits in with the God of the Bible, and what it all means."