So Many Books, So Little Time: A Year of Passionate Reading

So Many Books, So Little Time: A Year of Passionate Reading

2003 • 242 pages

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I was apprehensive about finally reading this book, to tell you the truth....I'd saved
it for several months and kept picking it up and admiring its cutesy title, its cartoonish cover, and its clever book concept
(try to read a book a week for a year and then write about the experience)....Could the book possibly live up to the
expectations I'd generated for it?

Surprisingly, yes. This book feels like it was custom cut for us, the book-obsessed in the world, with chapters on the
appeal of first lines in novels, husbands who don't read, double-booking....You almost wonder—Is Nelson here,
secretly, among us in our online book groups, silently listening to and writing down our book passions, our book concerns?

She is definitely one of us, in spirit. I heartily recommend this book.

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