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So Many Books, So Little Time: A Year of Passionate Reading
by Sara Nelson
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So Many Books, So Little Time — 28 weeks ago

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Sara Nelson had a great idea for a book lover’s book: She would spend one year (2002) reading a book a week and writing about it. Although she started off with a list of 26 or so books that she wanted to read, there was not a lot of rhyme to her reason. She did not have a definitive list like Pulitzer Prize Winners, or Books I Meant to Read in College But Never Did, or anything like that. She ended up choosing the books each week in a pretty spontaneous fashion.

Likewise, she did not have a formula for how she wanted to write about the books. She did not want to simply write reviews of the books she read. She wanted to write about each book’s connection to her personal life, such as what was going on in her life that made her chose a particular book, personal views that made her react to a book in a certain way, or memories a book conjured.

In keeping with her theme, I considered my own personal connections with So Many Books as well as the books Nelson read. As she described, I decided I would try “matching up the reading experience with the personal one and watching where they intersect – or don’t.”

There were a lot of intersections. . . .

Full review on Rose City Reader.

Interesting Read — 4 years ago

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If you are a bookaholic then you will relate to this book and the author. And the appendix has even more book offerings to enjoy.


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