Which Books Can't You Live Without?
We noted this week that retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter is moving away from his beloved Weare, N.H. Souter’s neighbors there told the Washington Post in May that Souter may someday write a history of the town. What led him to buy a more modern home in Hopkinton, N.H., a Souter neighbor said, is that his farmhouse in Weare isn’t structrually strong enough to support all of Souter’s books.
That got us thinking: Which books—whether professional, personal or just for fun—can you not live without?
Answer in the comments below.
Read the answers to last week’s question: What Advice Do You Wish You Had Been Given Before the Bar Exam?
Featured Answers:
Posted by mikell: “Read the questions before you read the fact pattern, as it will alert you what to look for when you read the fact pattern allowing you filter extraneous information designed to bog you down or distract you from the issues.
“Review courses should not teach you the law as much as they should teach you how to take the exam. The materials provided should distill the subject like an outline with case/statute support for the proposition.
“Finally, don’t talk to people after each day about what they wrote. If you do, the divergent opinions on what the essay questions were about will overwhelm you or give you something to worry about you don’t need.”
Posted by AR: “The exam is not about achieving a high score or grade. It is enough simply to pass.”
Posted by Passedit: “I wish someone would have told me to drive home and see my dad on Father’s Day that year instead of thinking I couldn’t take a day off from studying. He had been biggest supporter during law school (and my whole life). He died about a month after seeing me get sworn in. It was only one day …”
