A review by callmeevan
The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods by Antonin Sertillanges

4.0

A good and practical guide, and overall pretty timeless (except when the author recommends a Paris printer by name and footnotes his shop's address), which is to say applicable, common-sensical. Encourages and gives guidance for the silence, time, recollectedness, and aims of worthy intellectual work. Neither too daunting nor facile.

Not 'mandatory,' I would say, but quite enjoyable and gave a sense of purpose and direction.