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bmazzoni's review against another edition
informative
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
fast-paced
4.0
mary412's review against another edition
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jobinsonlis's review against another edition
3.0
I would have liked less diary and more actually talking about the books that he read but what little literary commentary I got was pretty enjoyable.
_mallc_'s review against another edition
4.0
This book was different than I expected. I have read other books that are personal recollections of reading but there is something special about this one. It is mostly full of short observations, little musings, and quotes from the books he read. Most of all I liked his descriptions of Canada.
tasmanian_bibliophile's review against another edition
5.0
While travelling in Canada, Alberto Manguel was struck by how the particular 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 a daily paper: a chance observation would suddenly be illuminated by a particular passage in the novel.
He decided to keep a record of such moments by rereading a novel each month and formed a volume of notes, of impressions and observations all elicited in some way by his reading.
This record has formed ‘A Reading Diary’, and I think that many a reflective reader will enjoy it as much as I have. It matters not that I’ve not read many of the books referred to. I identify completely with the process of serendipity between the worlds we inhabit through reading and those we live in.
‘We read what we want to read, not what the author wrote.’
This book is a delight: not just for what it contains but for the possibilities it unlocks.
This is the first of Alberto Manguel’s books that I have read, and it most certainly won’t be the last.
‘This morning, I looked at the books on my shelves and thought that they had no knowledge of my existence. They come to life because I open them and turn their pages, and yet they don’t know that I am their reader.’
He decided to keep a record of such moments by rereading a novel each month and formed a volume of notes, of impressions and observations all elicited in some way by his reading.
This record has formed ‘A Reading Diary’, and I think that many a reflective reader will enjoy it as much as I have. It matters not that I’ve not read many of the books referred to. I identify completely with the process of serendipity between the worlds we inhabit through reading and those we live in.
‘We read what we want to read, not what the author wrote.’
This book is a delight: not just for what it contains but for the possibilities it unlocks.
This is the first of Alberto Manguel’s books that I have read, and it most certainly won’t be the last.
‘This morning, I looked at the books on my shelves and thought that they had no knowledge of my existence. They come to life because I open them and turn their pages, and yet they don’t know that I am their reader.’