Cheryl Drury
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And still that escape and an ability to maybe learn something about somewhere else.
But I didn't have a background in great books.
And there were a couple of times that I tried and it didn't...
I always felt like I wasn't quite getting it.
In particular, I read The Divine Comedy and loved it before we went on a trip to Italy.
And I really loved it, but I had this feeling that I was missing something when I came to it because I didn't know all of these backstories that are in it.
And it just kind of sat there.
And then I had also read A Gentleman in Moscow, and it sent me down.
I was reading Tolstoy and Dostoevsky and really, really enjoyed them, but that little Russian unit stopped.
And I really didn't quite know how to satisfy that itch of learning great books until I came across a reading list by a man named Ted Joa.
And I had been reading his work for a while, and he offered a year-long...
Immersive Humanities course that started in Plato.
And I thought, you know what?
This is my chance to maybe get a hold of all of these things and try to get a framework for a big picture.
And so I started reading it.
And that's been my reading life for the last 52 weeks, actually.
Yes, I felt like this is exactly how I felt, even with The Divine Comedy.
When I was reading The Russians and anything that was supposedly a great book, I felt like I was coming into a movie about a half hour late.
And, you know, I could understand like where the plot started from where I got there, but I felt like I was missing something.
And when I came across Ted's list, it was like I'd found the rewind button.