Story in Review: Very Good Lives by J.K. Rowling

Very Good Lives by J.K. Rowling is a little book created from a big speech: Rowling’s 2008 commencement speech at Harvard University (you can read the speech on Harvard’s site here, and watch the video of the speech here).

As with all things written by J.K. Rowling, the speech is full of nuggets of wisdom and altogether lovely sentences. And in the book, these words of wisdom are set into sophisticated moments of design.

If you at all like a well-designed book, do pick this one up. And if you at all like Harry Potter, these words from the famous author are on-par with the ones that live inside the magical world of Hogwarts, full of nuggets of truth and encouragement along the way for anyone who might need a pep talk at any point in life, be it graduation, the loss of a job, or a decision to turn in a new direction.

In Rowling’s own words:

Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power that enables us to empathise with humans whose experiences we have never shared.

Have you read Very Good Lives by J.K. Rowling? If so, what did you think? And are you as big of a Harry Pottery fan as I?