How Reading Changed my Life

Locations
Call Number: 028.9 Qu
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	028.9 Qu	4-week checkout	On Shelf

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

Moderately Fun for Avid Readers submitted by sdunav on August 28, 2017, 2:46pm I liked this - it was a fun read - but it just wasn't as good as Fadiman's "Ex Libris" which I read a few weeks ago. Maybe because Quindlen didn't get to grow up in a family that supported her reading as much as Fadiman's did.

The discussion about "middlebrow" literature and the divide between "The Canon" (old dead white man you read in lit. courses) and popular writing was interesting. I grew up with the Readers' Digest Condensed Books that Quindlen describes, too. I didn't like most of her "reading lists" at the back of the book, though, I guess my taste in books is pretty different from Quindlen's.