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A Reading Diary

• Title - A Reading Diary
  • Author - Alberto Manguel
  • Category - nonfiction
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  • Queue status - completed

Synopsis

A diary of a year of re-reading. Manguel re-reads 1 book per month for a year and shares his reflections. The books :

• Bioys-Casares - The Invention of Morel
• Kipling - Kim
• Doyle - The Sign of Four
• Chateaubriand - Memoir from beyond the Grave
• Wells - The Island of Dr. Moreau
• Goethe - Elective Affinities
• Grahame - The Wind in the Willows
• Cervantes - Don Quixote
• Buzzati - The Tartar Steppe
• Shonagan - The Pillow Book
• Atwood - Surfacing
• Machado de Assis - The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas

I found it all a little pretentious. Lots of name-dropping, lots of place-name-dropping. Maybe it's just jealousy, but I found little to enjoy.

• Alberto Manguel

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status:	completed
isbn:	0374247420
title:	A Reading Diary
author:	Alberto Manguel
category:	nonfiction
comments:	A diary of a year of re-reading