Synopses & Reviews
In the national bestseller, "How Reading Changed My Life", Anna Quindlen writes, "There was waking and there was sleeping. And then there were books". Quindlen is not alone in her passion for books. Here she explores what many of us feel (but may not be able to articulate quite as beautifully): The power of great literature to take us on adventures far from our everyday lives, to bring people into our homes we wouldn't ordinarily meet, and to comfort, inspire, educate, and delight us. Everyone who loves to read will want to share Quindlen's warm-hearted musings.
Synopsis
NATIONAL BESTSELLER - Anna Quindlen presents a "swift and compelling paean to the joys of books" (Booklist).
"Like the columns she used to write for the New York Times, How Reading Changed My Life] is tart, smart, full of quirky insights, lapidary, and a pleasure to read."--Publishers Weekly
"Reading has always been my home, my sustenance, my great invincible companion. . . . Yet of all the many things in which we recognize 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 read because I loved it more than any activity on earth."--from How Reading Changed My Life
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About the Author
Anna Quindlen is the author of two bestselling novels, Object Lessons and One True Thing. Her New York Times column "Public and Private won a Pulitzer Prize in 1992, and a selection of these columns was published as Thinking Out Loud. She is also the author of a collection of the "Life in the '30s columns, Living Out Loud, and two children's books, The Tree That Came to Stay and Happily Ever After.