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Title: How Reading Changed My Life by Anna Quindlen ISBN: 0-345-42278-3 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 25 August, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.44 (18 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Manifesto for the bookworms of the world
Comment: It is impossible not to feel the kinship that this book provides. The title, for one thing, is spot on. Books do change your life, and the love of reading is one of the greatest gifts i have received. Like Quindlen, i remember discovering books as a little girl, and what a wonderful window into the world they were (and continue to be). She verbalizes what i'm sure many of us had felt for ages. Thank you for doing that!!!
Rating: 5
Summary: She Understands Your Need to Read
Comment: This book is a wonderful way for readers to understand themselves, if they don't already. Quindlen shows that we're NOT weird because we read, we're NOT escapists who can't handle the real world, and we're NOT anti-social. We're just in love with words and the power of stories. In only 84 pages, Quindlen tackles the reasons why we read, reading and technology, why classics should not be crammed down our kids' throats, and much more. Her Top Ten lists alone are worth the price of the book. As great as this book is for readers, it makes an even better gift for friends and family members who DON'T understand our need to read. A must read, a must-have.
Rating: 5
Summary: A love letter to readers from a sister reader
Comment: Anna Quindlen's "How Reading Changed My Life" is a charming and inspiring blend of autobiography and informal cultural criticism. In the book Quindlen reflects on books, reading, and readers.
Quindlen notes, "While we pay lip service to the virtues of reading, the truth is that there is in our culture something that suspects those who read too much, whatever reading too much means, of being lazy, aimless dreamers [...]." These, and many other insights in this book, really resonated with me. Throughout the book, Quindlen celebrates what she calls a "lively subculture" of truly serious readers.
Quindlen reflects on differences in men's and women's reading practices, on book groups, on skirmishes over "The Canon" of great books, on banned books, and on other topics. She tells how reading helped her keep her sanity during the "year of disarray" after the birth of her second child, and recalls how she fell in love with John Galsworthy's "Forsyte Saga." Ultimately, she explains why she believes that new technologies will not make old-fashioned books (versus online books) obsolete.
HRCML is full of wonderful passages, such as a remembered epiphany over D.H. Lawrence. This short book concludes with a few reading lists: "10 Nonfiction Books That Help Us Understand the World," "The 10 Books I Would Save in a Fire (If I Could Save Only 10)," etc. If you are a serious reader, I predict that, like me, you will recognize a kindred spirit in these pages, and will rejoice.
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Title: A Short Guide to a Happy Life by Anna Quindlen ISBN: 0375504613 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 31 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Living Out Loud by Anna Quindlen ISBN: 0804105278 Publisher: Ivy Books Pub. Date: 30 September, 1989 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Thinking Out Loud : On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private by Anna Quindlen ISBN: 0449909050 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 08 March, 1994 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Penguin History of Latin America by Edwin Williamson ISBN: 0140125590 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: September, 1993 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: Object Lessons by Anna Quindlen ISBN: 080410946X Publisher: Ivy Books Pub. Date: 22 March, 1992 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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