Ruined By Reading: A Life in Books
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ISBN: 0807070831 / Publisher: Beacon Press, May 1997
The author explores the role of books and literature in our lives, interweaving the story of her own Brooklyn childhood with memories of special books and thoughts on how books have shaped her world
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"Without books how could I have become myself?" In this wonderfully written meditation, Lynne Sharon Schwartz offers deeply felt insight into why we read and how what we read shapes our lives. An enchanting celebration of the printed word."This slender rhapsody on the joys of reading will be gobbled up like the rarest and finest chocolates." -Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post
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