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How Reading Changed My Life by Anna Quindlen

Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date: 08/28/1998
ISBN-13: 9780345422781

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Like New Seller Comments: 0345422783 Amazon Review A recurring theme throughout Anna Quindlen's How Reading Changed My Life is the comforting premise that readers are never alone. "There was waking, and there was sleeping. And then there were books," she writes, "a kind of parallel universe in which anything might happen and frequently did, a universe in which I might be a newcomer but never really a stranger. My real, true world." Later, she quotes editor Hazel Rochman: "Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but, most important, it finds homes for us everywhere." Indeed, Quindlen's essays are full of the names of "friends," real or fictional--Anne of Green Gables and Heidi; Anthony Trollope and Jane Austen, to name just a few--who have comforted, inspired, educated, and delighted her throughout her life. In four short essays Quindlen shares her thoughts on the act of reading itself ("It is like the rubbing of two sticks together to make a fire, the act of reading, an improbable pedestrian task that leads to heat an ... Full Product Detail from Seller	GuthrieBooks Average Feedback Rating: (4.9 out of 5) See all 27 ratings	Ships from: Spring Branch, TX Usually ships in 1-2 business days Standard Domestic Express Domestic Canadian	$2.89

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