Books like Amiel's Journal

I have completed my journey with Henri. I was a little sad to lose him. Of course technically he died over 100 years ago and I could just start over at the beginning...maybe someday I will. It is not an easy read and it took me a long time to get through it but I feel my life a little enriched because I was able to get to know this sad but insightful man through his journals. As all of my facebook friends know, as Henri and I traveled together on the El everyday, I sometimes found his quotes so moving that I just had to share; Pithy tidbits as relevant now as they were then.There are some challenges. He does have quite a few critiques of his contemporary writers (mostly Genevese, French and German) and most of whom I have never heard of and obviously have not read. I skimmed those entries. And Henri and I do not always see eye to eye about everything, but he is a thoughtful and gentle philosopher so his antiquated ideas about women and democracy, I shrugged them off. He did die in 1881. Finally he likes to discuss his faith and religion quite a bit and although I am not a believer he continues even on this topic to be a philosopher so I wasn't put off by the expression of his feelings about how he believed how religion and faith improved his life and lives of others.I imagined a movie with me on the El reading and then cutting to Henri (played by Sir Anthony Hopkins) writing like Julie and Julia... Okay... it would be a really boring movie. But a good book. Let yourself read it really slowly and and you will enjoy it.