Title: When
Strangers Meet By: Kio Stark
Publication Date: 9/13/2016
Summary: When Strangers Meet reveals the
transformative possibility of talking to people you don’t know—how these
beautiful interruptions in daily life can change you and the world we share.
When Strangers Meet argues for the pleasures and transformative
possibility of talking to people you don’t know. Our lives are increasingly
insular. We are in a hurry, our heads are down, minds elsewhere, we hear only
the voices we already recognize and rarely take the effort to experience
something or someone new. Talking to a stranger pulls you into a shared
humanity, it’s a source of creative energy, it opens your world, it cements
your relationship to the places you live and work and play, it’s a beautiful
interruption in the steady routines of our lives. Talking to strangers wakes
you up. From www.amazon.com
Review: This book read like a good lecture. It was too the point
and didn’t veer, which was nice. It included enough research to keep you
interested, and not too much to get off the main topic.
I’m curious to know who the expected audience? I feel like
this book would have wonderfully complimented the coursework in my Sociology
classes when I was in school.
I have a Master’s degree in Sociology, so I think I have a
deeper interest in the topic than then general public may have. I often analyze
ALL social interaction, including some I don’t participate in (I’m an active
people-watcher). This book makes me want to branch out and start talking to
strangers!
Opinions of talking with strangers will greatly vary depending
on the audience. I feel like as I’ve gotten older, I tend to interact less with
people. I don’t know if it is because of where I live, my own perceptions of
whether or not people want to talk to me, or because of my generation and our tendency
to hide behind a screen. Regardless, I suppose this book has got me thinking
which means for me, it was a success!
I would be interested in reading other
books/lectures/research by this author.
Read Date:
6/11/2016
Acquired From:
NetGalley
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