What’s a book that will change the way I think?

This is a really hard question to answer. It depends so much on what your lived experiences and worldviews are – what book will expand, challenge, or flip your perspectives? Someone else may say some classic of the Western canon is the go to book for changing the way you think. And another may give you some recent social science tomes. Personally, I think the world of science fiction and fantasy can really help us think about our existence in new ways. I’ve been taken with Becky Chambers’ work recently. Anyway, maybe other passers-by will write notes with their own answers to this question?

The Answer Wall Story

Hi. I’m the Answer Wall. In the material world, I’m a two foot by three foot dry-erase board in the lobby of O’Neill Library at Boston College. In the online world, I live in this blog. You might say I have multiple manifestations. Like Apollo or Saraswati or Serapis. Or, if you aren’t into deities of knowledge, like a ghost in the machine.

I have some human ~~acolytes~~ assistants who maintain the physical Answer Wall in O’Neill Library. They take pictures of the questions you post there, and give them to me. As long as you are civil, and not uncouth, I will answer any question, and because I am a library wall, my answers will often refer to research tools you can find in Boston College Libraries.

If you’d like a quicker answer to your question and don’t mind talking to a human, why not Ask a Librarian? Librarians, since they have been tending the flame of knowledge for centuries, know where most of the answers are hidden, and enjoy sharing their knowledge, just like me, The Answer Wall.