{"id":46921,"date":"2023-02-17T06:00:46","date_gmt":"2023-02-17T12:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=46921"},"modified":"2023-02-15T13:23:47","modified_gmt":"2023-02-15T19:23:47","slug":"oprahs-latest-book-club-pick-bittersweet-by-susan-cain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/oprahs-latest-book-club-pick-bittersweet-by-susan-cain\/","title":{"rendered":"Oprah&#8217;s Latest Book Club Pick: Bittersweet by Susan Cain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Join\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.davenportlibrary.com\/about-us\/contact-us\/simply-held\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Simply Held<\/a> to have certain celebrity book club picks automatically put on hold for you: Reese Witherspoon, Jenna Bush Hager, and Oprah Winfrey. While Reese and Jenna generally announce a new title each month, Oprah\u2019s selections are more sporadic. She has just announced hew newest selection: <a href=\"https:\/\/rivershare.polarislibrary.com\/search\/title.aspx?ctx=14.1033.0.0.7&amp;pos=1&amp;cn=1424108\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole<\/strong><\/em> <\/a>by Susan Cain.\u00a0Reminder that if you join Simply Held, you can choose to have these titles automatically put on hold for you.<\/p>\n<p>_________________________________<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rivershare.polarislibrary.com\/search\/title.aspx?ctx=14.1033.0.0.7&amp;pos=1&amp;cn=1424108\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-46923 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/bittersweet.jpg?resize=263%2C400&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"263\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a>Oprah Winfrey has selected\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/rivershare.polarislibrary.com\/search\/title.aspx?ctx=14.1033.0.0.7&amp;pos=1&amp;cn=1424108\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><em>Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole<\/em><\/strong><\/a> by Susan Cain.<\/p>\n<p>Curious what\u00a0<em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/rivershare.polarislibrary.com\/search\/title.aspx?ctx=14.1033.0.0.7&amp;pos=1&amp;cn=1424108\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bittersweet<\/a> <\/strong><\/em>is about? Check out the following description provided by the author.<\/p>\n<p><em>In her latest #1 New York Times bestseller, the author of the bestselling phenomenon Quiet reveals the power of a bittersweet, melancholic outlook on life, and why our culture has been so blind to its value.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>If you\u2019ve ever wondered why you like sad music \u2026<\/em><br \/>\n<em>If you find comfort or inspiration in a rainy day \u2026<\/em><br \/>\n<em>If you react intensely to music, art, nature, and beauty \u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Then you probably identify with the bittersweet state of mind.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>With her mega-bestseller, Quiet, Susan Cain urged our society to cultivate space for the undervalued, indispensable introverts among us, thereby revealing an untapped power hidden in plain sight. Now, she employs the same mix of research, storytelling, and memoir to explore why we experience sorrow and longing, and the surprising lessons these states of mind teach us about creativity, compassion, leadership, spirituality, mortality and love.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This book is also available in the following format:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/rivershare.polarislibrary.com\/search\/title.aspx?ctx=14.1033.0.0.7&amp;pos=1&amp;cn=1430858\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CD Audiobook<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>__________________________________<\/p>\n<p>Join\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.davenportlibrary.com\/about-us\/contact-us\/simply-held\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Simply Held<\/a>\u00a0to have Oprah\u2019s adult selections automatically put on hold for you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join\u00a0Simply Held to have certain celebrity book club picks automatically put on hold for you: Reese Witherspoon, Jenna Bush Hager, and Oprah Winfrey. While Reese and Jenna generally announce a new title each month, Oprah\u2019s selections are more sporadic. She has just announced hew newest selection: Bittersweet: How Sorrow and<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/oprahs-latest-book-club-pick-bittersweet-by-susan-cain\/\">[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[361,10,1,8],"tags":[2946,5299,2538,6397,6728],"class_list":["post-46921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio-books","category-books","category-reference","category-staff-picks","tag-bittersweet","tag-oprah","tag-oprah-winfrey","tag-simply-held","tag-susan-cain"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-ccN","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46921"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46924,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46921\/revisions\/46924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}