Full name: The Most Wonderful Books: Writers on Discovering the Pleasures of Reading

Author: Michael Dorris Year: 1997 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Books about books, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9781571312167 1571312161

Perhaps as many people set out to be writers now because of things they've seen--movies and TV--as do because of what they've read. This is for those in the latter category. A cozy compendium of authors discussing first books they've loved, letting the mysteries and pleasures of becoming readers--requisite before becoming any kind of writer--envelop them. Editors Michael Dorris and Emilie Buchwald have assembled a range of stories, from Nicholson Baker's shock at a death in The Hobbit, to Mona Simpson's "ABC" lessons with alphabet soup, and more. You'll be reaching for old Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys books before you know it. Similar books: Bookworms by Laura Furman A Reader's Delight by Noel Perrin Every Book Its Reader by Nicholas A. Basbanes Book by Book by Michael Dirda Bound to Last by Sean Manning For the Love of Books by Ronald B. Shwartz One for the Books by Joe Queenan A Passion For Books by Harold Rabinowitz The Pleasure of Reading by Antonia Fraser Reading in Bed by Steven Gilbar Where Books Fall Open by Bascove Why I Read by Wendy Lesser Nothing Remains the Same by Wendy Lesser Read This Next by Howard Mittelmark A Reader on Reading by Alberto Manguel Bibliostyle by Nina Freudenberger The Groaning Shelf by Pradeep Sebastian Books Do Furnish a Room by Leslie Geddes-Brown Living With Books by Alan Powers The Anatomy of Bibliomania by Holbrook Jackson