Oprah’s 99th Book Club Pick Is Here!

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This morning on CBS, Oprah revealed her first book club pick of 2023. “This book has the power to transform the way you see your life and even the world,” she says. “I have started to look at my own life in the world differently.”

Her pick? Bittersweet by Susan Cain, a non-fiction title that explores how we deal with sadness. Not by denying it. Not by surrendering to it. But by acknowledging it. Even if, at times, it seems self-defeating because: we’re all supposed to be happy, right? Or at least try to be happy?

“If we realize that all humans know—or will know—loss and suffering, we can turn toward each other,” Cain writes. “We're never going to love or even like the bad things that happen to us, but the more we see it all as part of life, the more we can get to the richest form of happiness we can possibly know.”

Cain is the author of the best-selling, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking which has been translated into 40 languages. Her TED talks have been viewed over 40 million times. And her message is universal: “No matter how much your culture tells you to smile, it’s not human to simply move on,” she writes. But this doesn’t mean that we can’t move forward.”(LINK TO THE JOURNAL PROMPTS)

Join Oprah and with Susan Cain and the book club at Oprah Daily on March 9 at 7 p.m. ET. Or join the conversation on Instagram and Facebook #ReadWith Us.

READING SCHEDULE

Introduction and Part I: “Sorrow and Longing”



Part II: “Winners and Losers”



Part III: “Mortality, Impermanence, and Grief”

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