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So Many Books, So Little Time: A Year of Passionate Reading
by Sara Nelson
Reading So Many Books, So Little Time, was a lot like looking in the mirror, aside from the fact that I’m not tall and Jewish. I also don’t love all the books that the author Sara Nelson loves, but I love some of them. What I found we have in common is many of the habits of readers:
1. “a Rain Man-like capacity to visualize the books, almost title by title, and put my hand on any one within seconds.”
2. “there are holes in my reading experience wide enough to drive the proverbial Mack truck through.”
3. “books get to me personally.”
4. “no matter what does happen, I’ll be reading through it, as I always have.”
5. Book “piles near my bed, the ones mentally marked Must Read, Might Read, and Maybe Someday.”
6. Carrying a book in my purse “as insurance against being caught—can you imagine?—with nothing to read.”
7. “I am a card-carrying member of the compulsive readers’ society.”
8. We both love thirtysomething and Anne Lamott’s Bird by Bird.
9. “something I have only in my maturity leaned how to do: I stopped reading” (a book I didn’t like).
10. We gave up on some of the same books: The Red Tent, Moby Dick, and Ulysses.
11. We get carsick from reading in the car.
12. We turn down the corners of the pages that contain something we like, and we annotate our books.
13. “my books are the affairs that I do not have.”
14. We both read the acknowledgement last page.
15. “the books I reach for again and again are novels.”
16. “I kind of flit from one topic, one genre, and one author to another....I’m to impatient to stick with one author for weeks at a time.”
After Poemcrazy by Susan Wooldridge and Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott, this book was super fun to annotate. Recommended by Charles de Lint, one of my favorite authors, this books was so awesome to read that I finished it in a day. 5 stars
1. “a Rain Man-like capacity to visualize the books, almost title by title, and put my hand on any one within seconds.”
2. “there are holes in my reading experience wide enough to drive the proverbial Mack truck through.”
3. “books get to me personally.”
4. “no matter what does happen, I’ll be reading through it, as I always have.”
5. Book “piles near my bed, the ones mentally marked Must Read, Might Read, and Maybe Someday.”
6. Carrying a book in my purse “as insurance against being caught—can you imagine?—with nothing to read.”
7. “I am a card-carrying member of the compulsive readers’ society.”
8. We both love thirtysomething and Anne Lamott’s Bird by Bird.
9. “something I have only in my maturity leaned how to do: I stopped reading” (a book I didn’t like).
10. We gave up on some of the same books: The Red Tent, Moby Dick, and Ulysses.
11. We get carsick from reading in the car.
12. We turn down the corners of the pages that contain something we like, and we annotate our books.
13. “my books are the affairs that I do not have.”
14. We both read the acknowledgement last page.
15. “the books I reach for again and again are novels.”
16. “I kind of flit from one topic, one genre, and one author to another....I’m to impatient to stick with one author for weeks at a time.”
After Poemcrazy by Susan Wooldridge and Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott, this book was super fun to annotate. Recommended by Charles de Lint, one of my favorite authors, this books was so awesome to read that I finished it in a day. 5 stars