![]() ![]() ![]() I'm vacillating between Moby Dick and Anna Karenina for my picks, and I think Miller would approve of those choices And then start your own book club inspired by the book one where each member picks a classic that they've always wanted to read, but have never gotten around to reading. My advice? Read The Year of Reading Dangerously as a collection of stories and essays, taking those that you connect with and leaving the rest. If the book is approached as more of an essay collection than a memoir, I think the readers will enjoy Miller's commentary on e-readers, classics like Pride and Prejudice and some lesser known (at least on this side of the pond) titles like The Master and Margarita. And Miller does a nice job weaving his commentary on the va lue of - and demise of - books and reading in our culture throughout the book. There were a few chapters/titles that saved the book for me (the chapters covering Moby Dick and Anna Karenina were my favorites). I was expecting more memoir and less essay, but I'm not sure I can fault the author for my own expectations. ![]() What reader wouldn't love that? The problem was that the idea I had about the book after reading the synopsis, of a memoir told through the author's experiences with books, wasn't the book Miller wrote. Overall, I thought the idea of this book was fantastic: a life told in books. ![]()
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