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Title: My Life with Bob
Author: PAUL PAMELA
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 12/06/2018
Imprint: PICADOR
Price: $23.00
Publishing status: Active
Pamela 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 <i>Sweet Valley High</i> to <i>Anna Karenina</i>, from <i>Catch-22</i> to <i>Swimming to Cambodia</i>, 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 <i>My Life with Bob</i> 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.
ISBN: 9781250182548
Weight: 300gr
Dimension: 208mm X 135mm
Pages: 256