Some books start at point A, take you by the hand, and carefully
walk you to point B, and on and on. This is not one of those books.
This book is about mood, and how it works in and with us as
complicated, imperfectly self-knowing beings existing in a world
that impinges and infringes on us, but also regularly suffuses us
with beauty and joy and wonder. You don't write that book as a
linear progression you write it as a living, breathing, richly
associative, and, crucially, active, investigation. Or at least you
do if you're as smart and inventive as Mary Cappello. What is a
mood? How do we think about and understand and describe moods and
their endless shadings? What do they do to and for us, and how can
we actively generate or alter them? These are all questions
Cappello takes up as she explores mood in all its manifestations:
we travel with her from mood rooms to art installations to off the
beaten path natural history museums, to the more scientific corners
of topics like depression and synesthesia, to jazz improv and, of
course, the countless writers who have attempted to pin down just
what this central aspect of being human is and means. The result is
a book as brilliantly unclassifiable as mood itself, blue and green
and bright and beautiful, smart and sympathetic, as powerfully
investigative as it is richly contemplative. "I'm one of those
people who mistrusts a really good mood," Cappello writes early on.
If that made you nod in recognition, well, maybe you're one of Mary
Cappello's people; you owe it to yourself to crack Life Breaks In
and see for sure.
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