UM's Common Read for 2024-2025 is Build the Life You Want by Arthur C. Brooks and Oprah Winfrey.

Links:

• the author's website
• the UM Common Read Experience
• a list of previous UM Common Read selections

The LibGuide for the 2024-2025 Common Read includes:

1. Links to transcripts of interviews with the Callings participants
2. Video interviews with authors Arthur C. Brooks and Oprah Winfrey
3. Instructions for locating a copy of the book in UM Libraries
4. List of campus events related to the Common Read
5. Links to teaching resources and related readings

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Arthur C. Brooks left to be a professional French hornist into his early thirties, much of it with the City Orchestra of Barcelona, Spain.

Brooks studied at the California Institute of the Arts.

"Be happy with what you have while working for what you want." -- Helen Keller

"Happiness is a choice. You can choose to be happy. There's going to be stress in life, but it's your choice whether you let it affect you or not." -- Valerie Bertinelli

"The key to happiness is not being rich; it's doing something arduous and creating something of value and then being able to reflect on the fruits of your labor." -- Arthur Brooks

What's standing between me and happiness?

"Folks are usually about as happy as they make up their minds to be." -- Abraham Lincoln

"I got my degree from Tennessee State, right around the time I got my third Emmy." -- Oprah Winfrey

"Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions." -- Dalai Lama XIV

The exhibit in the hallway of the J.D. Williams Library included copies of previous Common Read selections.