My Life with Bob

Flawed Heroine Keeps Book of Books, Plot Ensues

Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, Books & Reading, Essays & Letters, Essays, Biography & Memoir
Cover of the book My Life with Bob by Pamela Paul, Henry Holt and Co.
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: Pamela Paul ISBN: 9781627796323
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. Publication: May 2, 2017
Imprint: Henry Holt and Co. Language: English
Author: Pamela Paul
ISBN: 9781627796323
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.
Publication: May 2, 2017
Imprint: Henry Holt and Co.
Language: English

People Pick • O Magazine Title to Pick Up Now • Vanity Fair Hot Type • Glamour New Book You’re Guaranteed to Love This Summer • LitHub.com Best Book about Books • Buzzfeed Book You Need to Read This Summer **•**Seattle Times Book for Summer Reading • Warby Parker Blog Book Pick • Google Talks Harper’s BazaarVogueThe Washington PostThe EconomistThe Christian Science Monitor • Salon The Atlantic

Imagine keeping a record of every book you’ve ever read. What would this reading trajectory say about you? With passion, humor, and insight, the editor of The New York Times Book Review shares the stories that have shaped her life.

Pamela Paul has kept a single book by her side for twenty-eight years – carried throughout high school and college, hauled from Paris to London to Thailand, from job to job, safely packed away and then carefully removed from apartment to house to its current perch on a shelf over her desk – reliable if frayed, anonymous-looking yet deeply personal. This book has a name: Bob.

Bob is Paul’s Book of Books, a journal that records every book she’s ever read, from Sweet Valley High to Anna Karenina, from Catch-22 to Swimming to Cambodia, a journey in reading that reflects her inner life – her fantasies and hopes, her mistakes and missteps, her dreams and her ideas, both half-baked and wholehearted. Her life, in turn, influences the books she chooses, whether for solace or escape, information or sheer entertainment.

But My Life with Bob isn’t really about those books. It’s about the deep and powerful relationship between book and reader. It’s about the way books provide each of us the perspective, courage, companionship, and imperfect self-knowledge to forge our own path. It’s about why we read what we read and how those choices make us who we are. It’s about how we make our own stories.

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

People Pick • O Magazine Title to Pick Up Now • Vanity Fair Hot Type • Glamour New Book You’re Guaranteed to Love This Summer • LitHub.com Best Book about Books • Buzzfeed Book You Need to Read This Summer **•**Seattle Times Book for Summer Reading • Warby Parker Blog Book Pick • Google Talks Harper’s BazaarVogueThe Washington PostThe EconomistThe Christian Science Monitor • Salon The Atlantic

Imagine keeping a record of every book you’ve ever read. What would this reading trajectory say about you? With passion, humor, and insight, the editor of The New York Times Book Review shares the stories that have shaped her life.

Pamela Paul has kept a single book by her side for twenty-eight years – carried throughout high school and college, hauled from Paris to London to Thailand, from job to job, safely packed away and then carefully removed from apartment to house to its current perch on a shelf over her desk – reliable if frayed, anonymous-looking yet deeply personal. This book has a name: Bob.

Bob is Paul’s Book of Books, a journal that records every book she’s ever read, from Sweet Valley High to Anna Karenina, from Catch-22 to Swimming to Cambodia, a journey in reading that reflects her inner life – her fantasies and hopes, her mistakes and missteps, her dreams and her ideas, both half-baked and wholehearted. Her life, in turn, influences the books she chooses, whether for solace or escape, information or sheer entertainment.

But My Life with Bob isn’t really about those books. It’s about the deep and powerful relationship between book and reader. It’s about the way books provide each of us the perspective, courage, companionship, and imperfect self-knowledge to forge our own path. It’s about why we read what we read and how those choices make us who we are. It’s about how we make our own stories.

More books from Henry Holt and Co.

Cover of the book The Great Death by Pamela Paul
Cover of the book The Believing Brain by Pamela Paul
Cover of the book Abracadabra by Pamela Paul
Cover of the book You're a Crab! by Pamela Paul
Cover of the book Welcome to Monster Town by Pamela Paul
Cover of the book Now & Ben by Pamela Paul
Cover of the book Every Day Is Mother's Day by Pamela Paul
Cover of the book That's a Possibility! by Pamela Paul
Cover of the book The Shady Tree by Pamela Paul
Cover of the book The Science of Good and Evil by Pamela Paul
Cover of the book Dear Heartbreak by Pamela Paul
Cover of the book Jericho Walls by Pamela Paul
Cover of the book 1915: The Death of Innocence by Pamela Paul
Cover of the book Brave Jane Austen by Pamela Paul
Cover of the book A Taste for Intrigue by Pamela Paul
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy