Catalyzed by the loss of her sister, a mother of four spends one year savoring a great book every day, from Thomas Pynchon to Nora Ephron and beyond. In the tradition of Gretchen Rubin’s The Happiness Project and Joan Dideon’s A Year of Magical Thinking, Nina Sankovitch’s soul-baring and literary-mi...
Too much pathos, a lot of preaching, an omnipresent 'I', and some book spoilers in between. Egomaniacs with plenty of time on their hands are never good at writing except if they are called Tolstoy. His name, though, shouldn't have been allowed to be used to promote this drivel. I feel cheated.Someb...
This book is the true account of Nina Sankovitch and her quest to read a book a day for a year as a way to deal with the death of her older sister. She and her sister Anne-Marie shared a love of reading and therefore decided this project would be her way to pay tribute to her beloved sister as well ...
Many "stunt" memoirs are about doing a crazy, unsustainable thing - making every recipe from a huge cookbook, living to the letter of the Bible, going without or making do with.Nina Sankovitch makes it clear from the beginning that she will not fail. For her reading a book a day for an entire year ...
Nina has been frazzled over the last three years of her life. Her sister's death had thrown her into a tailspin. She decided to read a book a day for a year, to emerge from the funk she's in. Her favorite chair - is purple and scented with cat urine(slightly). And to boot, she will post reviews ...
Tolstoy and the Purple Chair took the book blogging world by storm last year. I remember being particularly taken with Allie’s review, which instantly put it on my wish list. A little over a year later, this memoir about reading a book a day, about finding meaning in literature and making meaning th...
From books to blog and back again, Nina Sankovitch chronicles her “year of magical reading” in TOLSTOY AND THE PURPLE CHAIR. In describing it that way, Sankovitch intentionally references Joan Didion’s THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING; this is a time of healing from loss, as she turns to books--reading ...
A great book for readers: everyone will find Sankovitch’s thoughts on how books relate to one’s life ring close to home. What was especially interesting here was her juxtaposition of her reading life with her mental life, as reading allowed her time to quiet down and process the death of her sister....
I saw the author speak at the Harvard Book Store in July. I am inspired by her story and intrigued to read the reviews on the blog that chronicled her experience of reading 365 books in 365 days by 365 different authors. The book gives the back story and the experience of reading those books, and it...
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