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020 $a9781250182548 (pbk.) :$cNT$560
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100 1 $aPaul, Pamela.
245 10$aMy life with Bob :$bflawed heroine keeps book of books, plot ensues /$cPamela Paul.
250 $aFirst Picador edition.
260 $aNew York :$bPicador,$c2018.
300 $axiv, 242 p. ;$c21 cm.
505 0 $a1. Brave New World: You Shouldn't Be Reading That -- 2. Slaves of New York: The Literary Life -- 3. The Trial: A Book with No Ending -- 4. Catch-2.2: Never Enough -- 5. The Norton Anthology of English Literature: Required Reading -- 6. Into That Darkness: Voyeurism -- 7. The Grapes of Wrath: Among Readers -- 8. A Journey of One's Own: Books That Change Your Life -- 9. Anna Karenina: Heroines -- 10. Swimming to Cambodia: The Company of Narrators -- 11. Wild Swans: Inspirational Reading -- 12. The Secret History: Solitary Reading -- 13. The Wisdom of the Body: In Love with a Book -- 14. The Magic Mountain: Different Interpretations -- 15. Autobiography of a Face: On Self-Help -- 16. Flashman: I Do Not Like Your Books -- 17. The Master and Margarita: Recommendations -- 18. The Hunger Games: No Time to Read -- 19. A Wrinkle in Time: Reading with Children -- 20. Bad News: Tearjerkers -- 21. Les Miserables: Why Read? -- 22. A Spy Among Friends: Other Writers.
520 $aPamela Paul has kept a single book by her side for twenty- eight years - carried throughout high school and college, hauled from Paris to London to Thailand, from job to job, safely packed away and then carefully removed from apartment to house to its current perch on a shelf over her desk - reliable if frayed, anonymous-looking yet deeply personal. This book has a name: Bob. Bob is Paul's Book of Books, a journal that records every book she's ever read, from Sweet Valley High to Anna Karenina, from Catch-22 to Swimming to Cambodia, a journey in reading that reflects her inner life - her fantasies and hopes, her mistakes and missteps, her dreams and her ideas, both half-baked and wholehearted. Her life, in turn, influences the books she chooses, whether for solace or escape, information or sheer entertainment. But My Life with Bob isn't really about those books. It's about the deep and powerful relationship between book and reader. It's about the way books provide each of us the perspective, courage, companionship, and imperfect self-knowledge to forge our own path. It's about why we read what we read and how those choices make us who we are. It's about how we make our own stories.
600 10$aPaul, Pamela$xBooks and reading.
650 0$aBooks and reading$xPsychological aspects.