Beverly L. (bevychap) reviewed Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading on + 151 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 2
This was a well written book that just happened to fall in two of my least favorite categories: Sisters Dying/Dead of Cancer, and Stuff I Did for a Whole Year.
That being said, it was a very NICE example of a book in those two genres, and was enthusiastically recommended to me... So it may be a good pick for you.
My favorite part of the book was the literary quotes and book references worked into the discussion. Also, she includes her book list at the end. That part should appeal to any bibliophile, regardless of subject matter hangups ;)
That being said, it was a very NICE example of a book in those two genres, and was enthusiastically recommended to me... So it may be a good pick for you.
My favorite part of the book was the literary quotes and book references worked into the discussion. Also, she includes her book list at the end. That part should appeal to any bibliophile, regardless of subject matter hangups ;)
JOANNE (joann) -
Nina Sankovitch has been reading her whole life. Her parents and two sisters were also very avid readers.
Nina loses her sister, Anne-Marie to cancer, and takes life devastatingly hard, going all out to make sure that she encompasses everything that life offer like running, going at all speeds.
She comes to the conclusion that she is going to take a year and read a book a day, to try and bring her sorrow to some kind of conclusion.
Nina shares with us some of the philosophies that she acquires during her reading a book a day and they seemed to have worked for her in her grief from losing her sister.
While I understood having to deal with grief in your own way, I don't think that I could have dealt with it in the same manner. I read, have always read, but my turn to books is as an escape from the normal and the opportunity to escape into someone else's story and put my own away for a short period of time.
Kudos to Nina for using the tool that made her deal with her grief in her way and for sharing that with us.
Nina loses her sister, Anne-Marie to cancer, and takes life devastatingly hard, going all out to make sure that she encompasses everything that life offer like running, going at all speeds.
She comes to the conclusion that she is going to take a year and read a book a day, to try and bring her sorrow to some kind of conclusion.
Nina shares with us some of the philosophies that she acquires during her reading a book a day and they seemed to have worked for her in her grief from losing her sister.
While I understood having to deal with grief in your own way, I don't think that I could have dealt with it in the same manner. I read, have always read, but my turn to books is as an escape from the normal and the opportunity to escape into someone else's story and put my own away for a short period of time.
Kudos to Nina for using the tool that made her deal with her grief in her way and for sharing that with us.
Memoir of author's year reading a book a day. I hadn't read many of the books she references but that was not an issue in reading this book as she doesn't discuss the books so much as her love of reading in general and the lessons learned from reading books, lessons that could be applied to life in general and which helped her move on from grief over her sister's death to cancer. Lots of stories of her family and her sister but all told in relation to books and reading.
