from today’s Shelf Awareness:
How cops “book’em” in the Pacific Northwest. The Seattle Times reported on the “by-the-book” habits of five local police officers, who are also voracious readers.
Adrian Diaz, for example, said that the book that changed his life was The Meditations by Marcus Aurelius: “It’s more about life and how we perceive and how we deal with things surrounding us. I think it helps in the context of my job, just trying to deal with all the different things we face.”
History is his preferred genre. “I have gone back into a lot of the historical Roman type books,” he said, “kind of the foundation types of leadership. I read a lot about the Spartans and Troy. Things that happen hundreds of years ago will happen today–it’s a circular system.”
Two of the five said that To Kill a Mockingbird changed their lives.
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