So Many Books, So Little Time
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| Rating | : | 4.40 (739 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0399150838 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-12-13 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Sara Nelson is a senior contributing editor at Glamour and the publishing columnist for The New York Observer. . She has also been an editor at Self, Inside, and the Book Publishing Report, and a contributor to many other publications, including The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal
Most readers will probably come away from this love letter to books eager to pursue some of Nelson's favorites-Nora Ephron's Heartburn, perhaps, or Emma Donoghue's Slammerkin-which is what makes Nelson's reflections inspiring and worthwhile.Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Publishers Weekly "I have a New Year's plan," Nelson writes in the prologue to this charming diary of an unapologetic "readaholic." Her goal: to read a book a week for a year and try "to get down on paper what I've been doing for years in my mind
She had a system all set up: fifty-two weeks, fifty-two books and it all fell apart the first week. Throughout, So Many Books, So Little Time is pure delight-a work at once funny, wise, and rueful: enough to make a passionate reader out of anybody.. to Captain Underpants, this is the captivating result. It is a personal memoir filled with wit, charm, insight, infectious enthusiasm-and observations on everything from Public Books (the ones we pretend we're reading), lending trauma and the idiosyncrasies of sex scenes ("The mingling of bodies and emotions and fluids is one thing. That's when she discovered that
Bibliophile confesses all, one book lover to another Mr. Joe "My books are my secret lovers, the friends I run to to get away from the daily drudgeries of life, to try out something new, and yes, to get away, for a few hours, from (husband Leo). He doesn't need to know that my books are the affairs I do not have." - Sara Nelson in SO MANY BOOKS, SO LITTLE TIMESara Nelson, at the time a book reviewer . "Entertaining" according to N. Gargano. Well, I spotted this book because the title jumped out at me, it is exactly how I live my life. I am a passionate reader, and although this book was very entertaining, I have to admit I felt like Ms. Nelson felt that I was a reader a little beneath others, because I am one of the readers who read mostly fiction, and mostly "best seller" fic. One of the best of the books about reading genre Books derived essentially from somebody else's reading list attract me every time, but I'm usually sorry by mid-point because they only remind me of my own reading that I'm neglecting. Or, they tell me what I already know or feel. Or they don't talk enough, they just list. Or they talk up books that aren't my thing. Sara Nelson's SO MANY BO