A Reading Diary A Year Of Favourite Books

Release on 2014-04-03 | by Alberto Manguel

experience; it lends reality to the illusion that a book speaks to us and wills us (its readers) into being. A couple of years ago, after my fifty-third birthday, I decided to reread a few of my favourite old books, and I was struck, ...

A Reading Diary A Year Of Favourite Books
  • Author: Alberto Manguel
  • Publisher: Canongate Books
  • ISBN: 9781847677310
  • Category: Travel
  • Page: 272
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A Reading Diary A Year Of Favourite Books

While travelling in Calgary, Alberto Manguel was struck by how the novel he was reading seemed to reflect the world he was living in. An article in the daily paper would be suddenly illuminated by a passage in the novel; a long reflection would be prompted by a single word. He decided to keep a record of these moments, rereading a book a month, and formed A Reading Diary: a volume of notes, impressions of travel, of friends, of public and private events, all elicited by his reading.

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