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Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself In Books
Maureen Corrigan
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Paperback, 201 pages; 2006 (2005)
$13.95
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Among the many dangers of being an obsessive reader is that you tend to mediate your life through books, filter your experiences through plots, so that the boundary between fiction and fact becomes porous.
A chorus of avid readers would shout, "Amen to that." Maureen Corrigan's reading habit is professional and personal: she's the book critic on NPR's Fresh Air, as well as a professor of literature at Georgetown University. Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading is a memoir of her life as a reader. It's full of all sorts of anecdotal digressions, both literary and personal. of her and her husband's struggle to have a child, for example, she alludes to the disappointing results of various fertility treatments, then entertains with stories of awful pre-adoption and finally offers a travelogue of their trip to China to meet their adoptive daughter. But all this drama and poignancy lead? To a description of the thriller she took along to read long plane ride and while waiting in the hotel! Corrigan has given us a delightful ramble her life and her library--with reading lists and a bibliography to guide the way!
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