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• Tolstoy and the Purple Chair My Year of Magical Reading
• Nina Sankovitch
• English
• 10 August 2020
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Nina Sankovitch Í 6 review

summary Tolstoy and the Purple Chair My Year of Magical Reading free read Tolstoy and the Purple Chair My Year of Magical Reading ☆ PDF, eBook or Kindle ePUB Nina Sankovitch Í 6 review Of her sister a mother of four spends one year savoring a greatbook every day from Thomas Pynchon to Nora Ephron and beyond In the tradition ofGretchen Rubin’s The Happiness Project and Joan Dideon’sA Year of Magical Thinki Nice writing notwithstanding I couldn t get through this book not even the suggested 50 page minimum before deciding to drop it It s kind of ironic here I am on goodreads constantly keeping up with what several people are reading and their various reactions to the books You would think I d love a memoir of someone s year spent reading a book a day and the various reactions the books evokedBut this is the second book I ve read like this my first was So Many Books So Little Time A Year of Passionate Reading and I can honestly say that despite my love of books and reviews the genre just doesn t work for me It s one thing to read your friend s book reviews on a sporadic basis especially if your friend is someone you know and care about It s another when you have no personal connection with the author and are putting other things aside to read Captive Embraces Captive #2 up with what several people are reading and their various reactions to the books You would think I d love a memoir of someone s year spent reading a book a day and the various reactions the books evokedBut this is the second book I ve read like this my first was So Many Books So Little Time A Year of Passionate Reading and I can honestly say that despite my love of books and reviews the genre just doesn t work for me It s one thing to read your friend s book reviews on a sporadic basis especially if your friend is someone you know and care about It s another when you have no personal connection with the author and are putting other things aside to read

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summary Tolstoy and the Purple Chair My Year of Magical Reading free read Tolstoy and the Purple Chair My Year of Magical Reading ☆ PDF, eBook or Kindle ePUB Nina Sankovitch Í 6 review “NinaSankovitch has crafted a dazzling memoir that remindsus of the most primal function of literature to heal to nurture and to connectus to our truest selves Thrity Umrigar author of The Space Between UsCatalyzedby the loss I have so many GR friends to thank for their wonderful reviews and recommendation of Tolstoy and the Purple Chair It was Patti Franz and Toni Clark s comments that gave me the final push to read this It didn t hurt that I also learned that the author resides in Connecticut my state of residence This is a book about grieving by using the power of words books and reading to comfort the author in the death of her forty six year old sister Ann Marie Not knowing how to cope Nina Sankovitch turns to books as these had always helped her in her life She likens this to the glue that keeps her immigrant family together and offers comfort escape and introspection Nina Sankovitch decides to read one book a day for a full year and to write about each of them The logistics of this is not easy as she is a wife mother of four sons and stepmothe

summary Tolstoy and the Purple Chair My Year of Magical Reading free read Tolstoy and the Purple Chair My Year of Magical Reading ☆ PDF, eBook or Kindle ePUB Nina Sankovitch Í 6 review Ng Nina Sankovitch’ssoul baring and literary minded memoir is a chronicle of losshope and redemption Nina ultimately turns to reading as therapy andthrough her journey illuminates the power of books to help us reclaim ourlives Tolstoy and the Purple Chair is a book for people who love to read From the first chapter with the author s description of a day spent on a bench by the sea reading Bram Stoke s Dracula ultimately finishing the last of its 400 pages in her hotel room that night I was totally caught up in her story After Nina Sankovitch s beloved older sister Anne Marie dies of cancer at age 46 Nina spends the next three years cramming as much as possible into her days not just to escape the pain of losing her sister but also to try and live life double for her sister and all that she missed as well as for herself Exhausted with grief unabated Nina decides to use the love of books that she shared with Anne Marie as an escape back to lifein her words to engulf herself in books and come up whole again She decides to read a book a day for a year She started a