So Many Books, So Little Time (Uncorrected Proof)
2 journalers for this copy...
AMAZON REVIEW:
In early 2002, Sara Nelson-editor, reporter, reviewer, mother, daughter, wife, and compulsive reader-set out to chronicle a year's worth of reading, to explore how the world of books and words intermingled with children, marriage, friends, and the rest of the"real"world. She had a system all set up: fifty-two weeks, fifty-two books . . . and it all fell apart the first week. That's when she discovered that books chose her as much as she chose them, and the rewards and frustrations they brought were nothing she could plan for: "In reading, as in life, even if you know what you're doing, you really kind of don't."
From Solzhenitsyn to Laura Zigman, Catherine M. to Captain Underpants, this is the captivating result. It is a personal memoir filled with wit, charm, insight, infectious enthusiasm-and observations on everything from Public Books (the ones we pretend we're reading), lending trauma and the idiosyncrasies of sex scenes ("The mingling of bodies and emotions and fluids is one thing. But reading about it: now that's personal") to revenge books, hype, the stresses of recommendation (What does it mean when someone you like hates the book you love?), the odd reasons we pick up a book in the first place, and how to put it down if we don't like it ("The literary equivalent of a bar mitzvah, the moment at which you look at yourself and announce: Today I am an adult."). Throughout, So Many Books, So Little Time is pure delight-a work at once funny, wise, and rueful: enough to make a passionate reader out of anybody.
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Another case of a book that I've had for some time - I think I got it at last spring's Friends of Library booksale - and neglected to register. It is as noted on the front an "uncorrected proof for limited distribution" and I can't think of anywhere except the library sale that I've ever seen that.
I enjoyed this collection of essays of a year's worth of reading. There are some things I really agree with - I seldom read the book of the moment at the time that it's 'hot'. And others I'm not as sure of - I can be friends with someone with different taste in reading.
Two quotes I liked:
"...I choose them the way I choose my friends: because somebody nice introduced us, because I liked their looks, because the best of them turn out to be smart and funny and both surprising and inevitable at the same time."
"A book is a way to shut out the noise of the world. It's a way to be alone without being totally alone."
This was on the wishlist of the winner of the Happy Day RABCK and I will send on to her next week. Hope the list was accurate - I know there's been problems with this feature.
In early 2002, Sara Nelson-editor, reporter, reviewer, mother, daughter, wife, and compulsive reader-set out to chronicle a year's worth of reading, to explore how the world of books and words intermingled with children, marriage, friends, and the rest of the"real"world. She had a system all set up: fifty-two weeks, fifty-two books . . . and it all fell apart the first week. That's when she discovered that books chose her as much as she chose them, and the rewards and frustrations they brought were nothing she could plan for: "In reading, as in life, even if you know what you're doing, you really kind of don't."
From Solzhenitsyn to Laura Zigman, Catherine M. to Captain Underpants, this is the captivating result. It is a personal memoir filled with wit, charm, insight, infectious enthusiasm-and observations on everything from Public Books (the ones we pretend we're reading), lending trauma and the idiosyncrasies of sex scenes ("The mingling of bodies and emotions and fluids is one thing. But reading about it: now that's personal") to revenge books, hype, the stresses of recommendation (What does it mean when someone you like hates the book you love?), the odd reasons we pick up a book in the first place, and how to put it down if we don't like it ("The literary equivalent of a bar mitzvah, the moment at which you look at yourself and announce: Today I am an adult."). Throughout, So Many Books, So Little Time is pure delight-a work at once funny, wise, and rueful: enough to make a passionate reader out of anybody.
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Another case of a book that I've had for some time - I think I got it at last spring's Friends of Library booksale - and neglected to register. It is as noted on the front an "uncorrected proof for limited distribution" and I can't think of anywhere except the library sale that I've ever seen that.
I enjoyed this collection of essays of a year's worth of reading. There are some things I really agree with - I seldom read the book of the moment at the time that it's 'hot'. And others I'm not as sure of - I can be friends with someone with different taste in reading.
Two quotes I liked:
"...I choose them the way I choose my friends: because somebody nice introduced us, because I liked their looks, because the best of them turn out to be smart and funny and both surprising and inevitable at the same time."
"A book is a way to shut out the noise of the world. It's a way to be alone without being totally alone."
This was on the wishlist of the winner of the Happy Day RABCK and I will send on to her next week. Hope the list was accurate - I know there's been problems with this feature.
For the winner of the Happy Day RABCK
I'm not sure if this was "officially" on my wishlist, but I know I've wanted to read this one for a while now! This is also my first uncorrected proof to read. How exciting!
I thought this book was a lot of fun! It's available for anyone who is interested or it might be Wild Released some day!
