Full name: A Reading Diary: A Year of Favourite Books

Author: Alberto Manguel Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Books about books, Non Fiction, Essays, Memoirs Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780312424459 9780374247423 0312424450 0374247420

While traveling in Calgary, Alberto Manguel was struck by how the novel he was reading (Goethe's "Elective Affinities") seemed to reflect the social chaos of the world in which he was living. An article in the daily paper would suddenly be illuminated by a passage in the novel; a long reflection would be prompted by a single word. He decided to keep a record of these moments, rereading a book each month, and forming "A Reading Diary": a volume of notes, reflections, impressions of travel, of friends, of events public and private, all elicited by his reading. From "Don Quixote" (August) to "The Island of Dr. Moreau" (February) to "Kim" (April), Manguel leads us on an enthralling adventure in literature and life, and demonstrates how, for the passionate reader, one is utterly inextricable from the other. Similar books: With Borges by Alberto Manguel A Reader on Reading by Alberto Manguel One for the Books by Joe Queenan Book by Book by Michael Dirda How Reading Changed My Life by Anna Quindlen Howards End is on the Landing by Susan Hill Why I Read by Wendy Lesser Jacob's Room is Full of Books by Susan Hill Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading by Maureen Corrigan A Reader's Delight by Noel Perrin Read This Next by Howard Mittelmark Browsings by Michael Dirda How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read by Pierre Bayard Ruined by Reading by Lynne Sharon Schwartz Nothing Remains the Same by Wendy Lesser So Many Books, So Little Time by Sara Nelson The Library at Night by Alberto Manguel The Man Who Ate Everything by Jeffrey Steingarten Tell Me More by Kelly Corrigan Notes from No Man's Land by Eula Biss