How Reading Changed My Life

ISBN: 0345422783

Author: Quindlen, Anna

Condition: New

NATIONAL BESTSELLER Anna Quindlen presents a swift and compelling paean to the joys of books (Booklist).Like the columns she used to write for the New York Times, [How Reading Changed My Life] is tart, smart, full of quirky insights, lapidary, and a pleasure to read.-Publishers WeeklyReading has always been my home, my sustenance, my great invincible companion. . . . Yet of all the many things in which we recognize universal comfort-God, sex, food, family, friends-reading seems to be the one in which the comfort is most undersung, at least publicly, although it was really all I thought of, or felt, when I was eating up book after book, running away from home while sitting in a chair, traveling around the world and yet never leaving the room. . . . I read because I loved it more than any activity on earth.-from How Reading Changed My Life