Margaret Atwood: What I Read – The question that is facing everybody is: how can we find out what we want to read? Sometimes it’s via friends–they say “you really have to read this.” Sometimes you pick up a book online and sometimes you read a review that makes the thing sound irresistible. Sometimes you read a review that’s so bad that you feel you just have to read the book, because you really can’t believe anything can be that bad.
How to Give Away Your Books – Giving books away: for the hoarders among us, it’s impossible, but for a lot of us, myself included, it’s rarely some kind of artistic or existential statement. If I think too deeply about the books I’m giving away, I have a sort of crisis. It’s got to be like ripping off a band-aid: I give them away quickly, and then I try to forget that I ever owned them.
Dear Book Lover: Literature that Grabs Hold – How I miss being grabbed by a line of a story and transported to another place and time. Do you think it’s only a function of age and maturity? Are the days of being bewitched by a story gone forever? If they’re not, who’s writing those stories?
Nancy Pearl Presents 10 Terrific Summer Reads – Reading lists are wonderful. Summer reading lists are magical. And a summer reading list from Nancy Pearl? Now that’s just completely irresistible.
To say you made my day with this potpourri post would be an understatement. What fun and insight. I especially enjoyed Margaret Atwood’s piece. Her paragraph on bathroom reading had me laughing aloud and answering my husband’s query of “what’s so funny” with “nothing, honey, I need to put War and Peace in the bathroom”.
Those links look fantastic, Nancy Pearl is hell on my tbr list 😀