Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781299175983 (1299175988)
Publish date: January 1st 2007
Publisher: Vintage Books
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
Writing,
Essays,
Language,
Literature,
American,
Criticism,
Literary Criticism,
Books About Books,
Biography Memoir
As book reviewer for NPR’s "Fresh Air" and contributor to many publications, Maureen Corrigan literally reads for a living. For as long as she can remember, books have been at the center of her life, a never-failing source of astonishment, hard truths, new horizons, and welcome companionship. Now Co...
Oh, this one was a hard one to rank. It was a three when I first picked it up, a two when I first put it down, a four when I picked it up again years later, and a three when I put it back down a second time. I was determined to knock off a lot of low-hanging almost-finished fruit from my TBR pile th...
This is the longest 184-page book I've ever read. I think it took me more than a month to finish, because the writing was just... not captivating is the best way to put it, I guess.I'd been waiting to get my hands on it for ages, so it was a huge disappointment not to enjoy it, but I just didn't thi...
I didn't really care for this book and scanned through most of it. I did find a couple of things worth quoting, though. "It's not that I don't like people. It's just that when I'm in the company of others--even my nearest and dearest--there always comes a moment when I'd rather be reading a book." ...
This book only really works if you've read the books this author talked about. Otherwise it can get kind of lame.
9 years ago
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