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How Reading Changed My Life (Paperback)

By: Anna Quindlen (Author)


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Excerpt

"Reading has always been my home, my sustenance, my great invincible companion. 'Book love,' Trollope called it. 'It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live.' Yet of all the many things in which we recognize some universal comfort--God, sex, food, family, friends--reading seems to be the one in which the comfort is most undersung, at least publicly, although it was really all I thought of, or felt, when I was eating up book after book, running away from home while sitting in a chair, traveling around the world and yet never leaving the room. I did not read from a sense of superiority, or advancement, or even learning. I read because I loved it more than any other activity on earth."

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The stories about my childhood, the ones that stuck, the ones that got told and retold at dinner tables, to dates as I sat by red-faced, to my own children by my father later on, are stories of running away.

Publisher's note

Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and bestselling author Anna Quindlen uses the mastery of the medium in which she works to send an utterly compelling message as she explores the importance of books in her life and their vital role in society.

THE LIBRARY OF CONTEMPORARY THOUGHT is a groundbreaking series where Americas finest writers and most brilliant minds tackle today's most provocative, fascinating, and relevant issues. Striking and daring, creative and important, these original voices on matters political, social, economic, and cultural, will enlighten, comfort, entertain, enrage, and ignite healthy debate across the country.

Annotation

In this extended essay, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Anna Quindlen writes charmingly about her lifelong obsession with books. From a childhood spent with Nancy Drew and Heidi--when reading could often be more pleasurable than anything else--to her adult musings about which 10 books she would save from a fire, Quindlen eloquently defends the practice of compulsive reading, whether of the great classics or the ephemeral literature of the day. Throughout, she makes clear that her vocation as a writer, and her strong response to prejudice, intolerance, and injustice, came directly from her love of books. Her stirring appreciation is a persuasive document that should warm the hearts of readers everywhere, and perhaps inspire nonreaders to see what all the excitement is about.



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