From amazon.com:

"I have a New Year's plan," Nelson writes in the prologue to this charming diary of an unapologetic "readaholic." Her goal: to read a book a week for a year and try "to get down on paper what I've been doing for years in my mind: matching up the reading experience with the personal one and watching where they intersect-or don't." Armed with a list of books, the author, a Glamour senior contributing editor, the New York Observer's publishing columnist and a veteran book reviewer, begins her 52-week odyssey. She doesn't necessarily stick to her list, which includes classics ("the homework I didn't do in college"), books everyone's talking about (like David McCullough's John Adams) and titles as diverse as Call It Sleep, by Henry Roth, and Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting. But she succeeds in sharing her infectious enthusiasm for literature in general, the act of reading and individual books and authors. Along the way, Nelson unearths treasures. She becomes enamored of David Mura's Turning Japanese, a memoir that helps her understand her Japanese-American husband better, and looks to Henry Dunow's The Way Home, about coaching baseball, while trying to help her second-grade son improve his athletic skills. Most readers will probably come away from this love letter to books eager to pursue some of Nelson's favorites-Nora Ephron's Heartburn, perhaps, or Emma Donoghue's Slammerkin-which is what makes Nelson's reflections inspiring and worthwhile.

RESERVED FOR TRADE

I have finished this book, and will be mailing it as a trade by the end of December. I really did not like the book, but I'm sure others will. Here is the review I submitted to Amazon.com:

This book is about the author's year long adventures in reading. At the beginning of the book she makes a bet that she can read one book a week for the entire year. Well, she doesn't make it.
In my opinion (remember this is my opinion), she hardly talks about books, she mostly talks about her family. In pretty much every single chapter she mentions that her husband is a set designer at SNL (saturday night live). I got it the first time she mentioned it, she didn't need to mention it anymore.
She does mention how every single book she read that year reflects a period in her life, then goes into elaborate detail. At the end of the book she makes a list about all of the books that she did read during the year, and what she thought, and then makes another list with books she would like to read during the next year.
Anyway, I really didn't like the book, but that's just my opinion.

thanks for the book (and the Bambi VHS), mskdm20! I will write another journal entry as soon as I finish reading.

This was mediocre. It seems like I have no interest in all the books that Nelson liked and loved all the books that Nelson hated. At least I did learn from this book that I am not the only person that doesn't remember every single detail about every single book I read. I always worried that I don't retain enough of what I read. For this, I'm glad I read So Many Books, So Little Time. Otherwise it would have been a complete waste of time. There are too many other books to read!

RELEASE NOTES:

On its way to debnance! thanks!

RELEASE NOTES:

On its way to debnance! thanks!

As a book addict, I loved this book and wanted this copy to pass on to other book addicts.

RELEASE NOTES:

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