MY LIFE WITH BOB: FLAWED HEROINE KEEPS BOOK OF BOOKS, PLOT ENSUES By Pamela Paul


Since 1988, Pamela Paul has been keeping a reading diary of all the books she reads. She nicknamed it BOB (Book of Books). In My Life With Bob, Pamela Paul writes about what books meant the most to her over 30 years of reading. Pamela Paul has a lot ups and downs in her Life, but books are always there to help get her through her crises and victories. I’m a sucker for a book like My Life With Bob with its focus on reading and books. Pamela Paul writes about crying while reading Henry James’s Portrait of a Lady (I did, too!). When Pamela Paul becomes CHILDREN’S BOOKS EDITOR for the New York Times Book Review, her children became readers as she brings home a bag of new books each day! You’ll find fun and sadness and wisdom in the pages of My Life With Bob. Highly recommended! GRADE: A
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Introduction: Why Keep Track?
Chapter 1: Brave New World: You Shouldn’t Be Reading That
Chapter 2: Slaves of New York: The Literary Life
Chapter 3: The Trial: A Book with No Ending
Chapter 4: Catch-22: Never Enough
Chapter 5: The Norton Anthology of English: Required Reading
Chapter 6: Into that Darkness: Voyeurism
Chapter 7: The Grapes of Wrath: Among Readers
Chapter 8: A Journey of One’s Own: Books That Change Your Life
Chapter 9: Anna Karenina: Heroines
Chapter 10: Swimming to Cambodia: The Company of Narrators
Chapter 11: Wild Swans: Inspirational Reading
Chapter 12: The Secret History: Solitary Reading
Chapter 13: The Wisdom of the Body: In Love with a Book
Chapter 14: The Magic Mountain: Different Interpretations
Chapter 15: Autobiography of a Face: On Self-Help
Chapter 16: Flashman: I Don’t Like Your Books
Chapter 17: The Master and Margarita: Recommendations
Chapter 18: The Hunger Games: No Time to Read
Chapter 19: A Wrinkle in Time: Reading with Children
Chapter 20: Bad News: Tearjerkers
Chapter 21: Les Misérables: Why Read?
Chapter 22: A Spy Among Friends: Other Writers
Epilogue: The Lives We Read
Acknowledgments
Also by Pamela Paul
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14 thoughts on “MY LIFE WITH BOB: FLAWED HEROINE KEEPS BOOK OF BOOKS, PLOT ENSUES By Pamela Paul

  1. Jeff Meyerson

    This is – obviously – my kind of book too (books! lists!) and has been on reserve at the library since I first read about it.

    PS – I am having to type in my information again too.

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  2. Jeff Meyerson

    Yeah, the Flashman thing turned me off too, Bill, but I guess she is entitled to her own taste…no matter how misguided it is.

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  3. mary mason

    Interesting, but since it’s all I can do to try to keep up with my books to read for review, It’d need to be about mystery fiction for me to try it

    the name space was blank for me, but after typing in m, the rest came up

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    1. george Post author

      Maggie, I have the same problem: too many books, too little time. I just finished a 517-page fantasy novel. Now I’m going to read something shorter!

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