A review by jack_reid
How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at An Answer by Sarah Bakewell

5.0

An excellent book. Unlike many other reviewers on Goodreads, I had never heard of Montaigne before picking up "How to Live". Rather, I was compelled to purchase the book by the title and was therefore surprised by the depth of Bakewell's coverage of Montaigne's philosophies, biography, and influence on later writers and thinkers. The ideas covered in the book vary widely and often contradict each other, in accordance with Montaigne's own writings.

I've read Bakewell's book twice now over the past four years. I imagine I'll pick it up again in a couple of years and, despite reading the same words, feel inspired by different chapters most relevant to my situation.