My Life with Bob
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My Life with Bob

Flawed Heroine Keeps Book of Books, Plot Ensues

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My Life with Bob

Flawed Heroine Keeps Book of Books, Plot Ensues

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People Pick • O Magazine Title to Pick Up Now • Vanity Fair Hot Type • Glamour New Book You're Guaranteed to Love This Summer • LitHub.com Best Book about Books • Buzzfeed Book You Need to Read This Summer • Seattle Times Book for Summer Reading • Warby Parker Blog Book Pick • Google Talks • Harper's Bazaar • Vogue • The Washington Post • The Economist • The Christian Science Monitor • Salon • The Atlantic Imagine keeping a record of every book you've ever read. What would this reading trajectory say about you? With passion, humor, and insight, the editor of The New York Times Book Review shares the stories that have shaped her life.Pamela Paul has kept a single book by her side for twenty-eight years – carried throughout high school and college, hauled from Paris to London to Thailand, from job to job, safely packed away and then carefully removed from apartment to house to its current perch on a shelf over her desk – reliable if frayed, anonymous-looking yet deeply personal. This book has a name: Bob.Bob is Paul's Book of Books, a journal that records every book she's ever read, from Sweet Valley High to Anna Karenina, from Catch-22 to Swimming to Cambodia, a journey in reading that reflects her inner life – her fantasies and hopes, her mistakes and missteps, her dreams and her ideas, both half-baked and wholehearted. Her life, in turn, influences the books she chooses, whether for solace or escape, information or sheer entertainment. But My Life with Bob isn't really about those books. It's about the deep and powerful relationship between book and reader. It's about the way books provide each of us the perspective, courage, companionship, and imperfect self-knowledge to forge our own path. It's about why we read what we read and how those choices make us who we are. It's about how we make our own stories.

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Publisher
Henry Holt and Co.
Year
2017
ISBN
9781627796323
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Literary Criticism History & Theory
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Notice
  4. Dedication
  5. Introduction: Why Keep Track?
  6. Chapter 1: Brave New World: You Shouldn’t Be Reading That
  7. Chapter 2: Slaves of New York: The Literary Life
  8. Chapter 3: The Trial: A Book with No Ending
  9. Chapter 4: Catch-22: Never Enough
  10. Chapter 5: The Norton Anthology of English: Required Reading
  11. Chapter 6: Into that Darkness: Voyeurism
  12. Chapter 7: The Grapes of Wrath: Among Readers
  13. Chapter 8: A Journey of One’s Own: Books That Change Your Life
  14. Chapter 9: Anna Karenina: Heroines
  15. Chapter 10: Swimming to Cambodia: The Company of Narrators
  16. Chapter 11: Wild Swans: Inspirational Reading
  17. Chapter 12: The Secret History: Solitary Reading
  18. Chapter 13: The Wisdom of the Body: In Love with a Book
  19. Chapter 14: The Magic Mountain: Different Interpretations
  20. Chapter 15: Autobiography of a Face: On Self-Help
  21. Chapter 16: Flashman: I Don’t Like Your Books
  22. Chapter 17: The Master and Margarita: Recommendations
  23. Chapter 18: The Hunger Games: No Time to Read
  24. Chapter 19: A Wrinkle in Time: Reading with Children
  25. Chapter 20: Bad News: Tearjerkers
  26. Chapter 21: Les MisĂŠrables: Why Read?
  27. Chapter 22: A Spy Among Friends: Other Writers
  28. Epilogue: The Lives We Read
  29. Acknowledgments
  30. Also by Pamela Paul
  31. About the Author
  32. Newsletter Sign-up
  33. Contents
  34. Copyright