Sara Nelson

A publishing correspondent chronicles a year's worth of reading to explore how the world of books intermingled with her relationships, a journey during which she discovered that the books chose her as much as she chose them, came to recognize the intimacy of the written word, and learned to recognize emotional responses to literary themes. 35,000 first printing.

A Year of Passionate Reading

So Many Books, So Little Time

Sarah Escorsa

Once I started reading this book I just couldn't put it down and finished it in litlle more than a day:) I loved out it made me reflect on my own "bookaholism" and on how reading habits depend on times and circumstances. I wrote down so many quotes from the book I almost started a book of my own, but here are some of my favorite ones:
"Part time machine, part Concorde, part ejector seat, books are our salvation."
"I don't always choose the books. Sometimes the books choose me."
"It's always dangerous to reread the pivotal books of your youth."
"Now [...] I have given up my membership in the book equivalent of the Clean Plate Club. If I don't like it, I stop reading."
"We're a funny, cliquish group, we group people, and sometimes we resist liking -or even, resist opening- the very thing everybody tells us we're supposed to like."
"Emma Bovary is like Bill Clinton in a nineteenth-century French dress."

And the one quote that sums it all up:
"You'd think that after a year of [...] trying to control my reading life, I'd figured out that it is uncontrollable." Boy do I know how that feels:)

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

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