Full name: Where I'm Reading From: The Changing World of Books

Author: Tim Parks Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Books about books, Non Fiction, Essays Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9781846559037 9781590178843 1846559030 159017884X

Should you finish every book you start? How has your family influenced the way you read? What is literary style? How is the Nobel Prize like the World Cup? Why do you hate the book your friend likes? Is writing really just like any other job? What happens to your brain when you read a good book? As a writer, translator, critic and professor of literature, Tim Parks, is well-placed to investigate any questions we have about books and reading. In this collection of lively and provocative pieces he talks about what readers want from books and how to look at the literature we encounter in a new light. Similar books: A Reader on Reading by Alberto Manguel Browsings by Michael Dirda Rereadings by Anne Fadiman Book by Book by Michael Dirda Classics for Pleasure by Michael Dirda A Reader's Delight by Noel Perrin Reading Life by Sven Birkerts More Baths Less Talking by Nick Hornby Ten Years in the Tub by Nick Hornby How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read by Pierre Bayard Why I Read by Wendy Lesser Shakespeare Wrote for Money by Nick Hornby Read This Next by Howard Mittelmark Housekeeping vs. the Dirt by Nick Hornby Stuff I've Been Reading by Nick Hornby The Great Movies by Roger Ebert A Slip of the Keyboard by Terry Pratchett Reflections by Diana Wynne Jones The Art of the Novel by Milan Kundera Awake in the Dark by Roger Ebert