Sophie's World

I guess you could say that marrying a philosophy major has had an effect on me. I checked out "The Republic" form the BYU library sophmore year but I didn't read more than 40 pages. It was Plato that catalyzed the epiphany where I realized that life is too short to read terribly boring books. Mission accomplished P-dog. Ironic though, isn't it? The very book I stopped reading helped me see the light.

Sophie's world is a novel intertwined with lessons in philosophy. I think we'll all learn a lot and have some great discussions. I think the BFF book club is the perfect place to read such a book. We get to wax philosophical and explore our ideas among friends who know, love, and understand each other quite well.

I hope you're as excited to read it as I am! It may take a bit longer but it will be worth it: its a NY Times bestseller, has been published in over 30 languages (yes Baptiste, I just read that the French is the most accurate...) and it will help us see the world in a different light.

So grab your philosophy for dummies ladies, and get reading! (I really do have philosophy for dummies, one of Dan's friends bought it for me, telling me that it may help me relate to him better, lol!)


From ReadingGroupGuides.com: http://www.readinggroupguides.com/guides3/sophies_world1.asp

With more than thirty million copies in print, Sophie’s World is an exciting, entirely innovative novel that thrives on its contradictions. It is a page-turning adventure as well as a history of Western philosophy—from the discourse of ancient Greece to debates about the Big Bang. Yet it is also a refreshingly contemporary coming-of-age novel with echoes of science fiction.

The games begin when fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen finds two notes in her mailbox. One note asks, “Who are you?” The other asks, “Where does the world come from?” From here, with the aid of a devoted but mysterious instructor, Sophie sets off on a fantastic philosophical saga that will take her far beyond her small Norwegian hometown. Letters give way to lectures, questions give way to quests, and the dimensions of Sophie’s world (as well as our own) grow ever wider, deeper, and richer.