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A review by pussreboots
So Many Books, So Little Time: A Year of Passionate Reading by Sara Nelson
4.0
I'm glad I stuck with this book. For the first couple of chapters I had trouble with it because the author seems to take her reading too seriously. She seems to want every book experience to a magical and eye opening experience and gets frustrated when she doesn't experience it or when her kith or kin don't see books or reading the same way.
I'm also glad that I had to wait longer than expected to read this book because it gave me more time to read from the list of books she refers to in her essays. It was through her book "reviews" that I began to like the book. She and I (for the most part) agree on a lot of books. She is frustrated by books much in the same way that I am (see her comments on Cold Mountain, Everything is Illuminated and Alias Grace).
Given our affinity for certain types of books, I plan to jot down some of the more interesting titles that I haven't read and stick them in my wishlist at Cliff's for future reference.
One last note: sometimes two books will unexpectedly synchronize. In her chapter called "A Million Little Pieces" she writes about a book of the same title. She choses to describe the opening scene and just a couple weeks earlier I had read another reference to that scene in a book I was reading. I think the other book is Watermelon but I haven't been able to find the passage yet.
I'm also glad that I had to wait longer than expected to read this book because it gave me more time to read from the list of books she refers to in her essays. It was through her book "reviews" that I began to like the book. She and I (for the most part) agree on a lot of books. She is frustrated by books much in the same way that I am (see her comments on Cold Mountain, Everything is Illuminated and Alias Grace).
Given our affinity for certain types of books, I plan to jot down some of the more interesting titles that I haven't read and stick them in my wishlist at Cliff's for future reference.
One last note: sometimes two books will unexpectedly synchronize. In her chapter called "A Million Little Pieces" she writes about a book of the same title. She choses to describe the opening scene and just a couple weeks earlier I had read another reference to that scene in a book I was reading. I think the other book is Watermelon but I haven't been able to find the passage yet.