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My Life with Bob

By Pamela, Paul,

My Life with Bob Essays & Short Stories

My Life with Bob

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People Pick . O Magazine Title to Pick Up Now . Vanity Fair Hot Type . Glamour New Book You're Guaranteed to Love This Summer . LitHub.com Best Book about Books . Buzzfeed Book You Need to Read This Summer . Seattle Times Book for Summer Reading . Warby Parker Blog Book Pick . Google Talks . Harper's Bazaar . Vogue .The Washington Post . The Economist . The Christian Science Monitor . Salon . The Atlantic Imagine keeping a record of every book you've ever read. What would this reading trajectory say about you? With passion, humor, and insight, the editor of The New York Times Book Review shares the stories that have shaped her life. Pamela Paul has kept a single book by her side for twenty-eight years - carried throughout high school and college, hauled from Paris to London to Thailand, from job to job, safely packed away and then carefully removed from apartment to house to its current perch on a shelf over her desk - reliable if frayed, anonymous-looking yet deeply personal. This book has a name: Bob. Bob is Paul's Book of Books, a journal that records every book she's ever read, from Sweet Valley High to Anna Karenina, from Catch-22 to Swimming to Cambodia, a journey in reading that reflects her inner life - her fantasies and hopes, her mistakes and missteps, her dreams and her ideas, both half-baked and wholehearted. Her life, in turn, influences the books she chooses, whether for solace or escape, information or sheer entertainment. But My Life with Bob isn't really about those books. It's about the deep and powerful relationship between book and reader. It's about the way books provide each of us the perspective, courage, companionship, and imperfect self-knowledge to forge our own path. It's about why we read what we read and how those choices make us who we are. It's about how we make our own stories.
Product details
Number of Pages:
256
Release Date:
2017-05-02
Publication Date:
2017-05-02
Publisher:
Henry Holt & Company Inc
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1627796312
ISBN13:
9781627796316
Weight:
344 g
Height:
146 cm
Width:
216 cm
Thickness:
27 cm
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