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My Life with Bob: Flawed Heroine Keeps Book of Books, Plot Ensues

Pamela Paul

List price £12.99
Product Details
Format:
Paperback (BC)
ISBN:
9781250182548
Published:
01 Jun 2018
Publisher:
Macmillan [1570]
Dimensions:
256 pages - 211 x 137 x 14mm

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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.
My Life with Bob 9781627796316 (Hardback)
With passion, humour, and insight, the editor of The New York Times Book Review explores how books have shaped her life -- and how reading shapes all our lives.
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