How Reading Changed My Life

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER .Anna Quindlen presents a "swift and compelling paean to the joys of books" (Booklist). "Like the columns she used to write for the New York Times, How Reading Changed My Life is tart, smart, full of quirky insights, lapidary, and a pleasure to read."-Publishers Weekly "Reading has always been my home, my sustenance, my great invincible companion. . . . Yet of all the many things in which we recognize universal comfort-God, sex, food, family, friends-reading seems to be the one in which the comfort is most undersung, at least publicly, although it was really all I thought of, or felt, when I was eating up book after book, running away from home while sitting in a chair, traveling around the world and yet never leaving the room. . . . I read because I loved it more than any activity on earth."-from How Reading Changed My Life

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Anna Quindlen is the author of many bestselling books, including the #1 New York Times bestselling novel Rise and Shine, the #1 bestselling memoir Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake, and A Short Guide to a Happy Life. Her other novels include Blessings, One True Thing, the Oprah Book Club Selection Black and Blue, and Still Life with Bread Crumbs.