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Viking
November 2012
On Sale: October 25, 2012
256 pages ISBN: 0670025828 EAN: 9780670025824 Kindle: B007V65OMU Hardcover / e-Book
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Humor
One of America’s leading humorists and author of the
bestseller Closing Time examines his own obsession
with books
Joe Queenan became a voracious
reader as a means of escape from a joyless childhood in a
Philadelphia housing project. In the years since then he has
dedicated himself to an assortment of idiosyncratic
reading challenges: spending a year reading only short
books, spending a year reading books he always suspected he
would hate, spending a year reading books he picked with his
eyes closed.
In One for the Books, Queenan
tries to come to terms with his own eccentric reading
style—how many more books will he have time to read in his
lifetime? Why does he refuse to read books hailed by
reviewers as “astonishing”? Why does he refuse to lend out
books? Will he ever buy an e-book? Why does he habitually
read thirty to forty books simultaneously? Why are there so
many people to whom the above questions do not even
matter—and what do they read? Acerbically funny yet
passionate and oddly affectionate, One for the Books
is a reading experience that true book lovers will find
unforgettable
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