Every Day I Read
53 Ways to Get Closer to Books
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- R$ 104,90
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- R$ 104,90
Descrição da editora
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
From the author of the international bestseller Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop, a heartfelt invitation to reflect on your relationship with reading and celebrate the joys of books.
Why do we read? What is it that we hope to take away from the intimate, personal experience of reading for pleasure?
How often do we ask these profound, expansive questions of ourselves and of our relationship to the joy of reading? In each of the essays in Every Day I Read, Hwang Bo-reum contemplates what living a life immersed in reading means. She goes beyond the usual questions of what to read and how often, exploring the relationship between reading and writing, when to turn to a bestseller vs. browse the corners of a bookstore, the value of reading outside of your favorite genre, falling in love with book characters, and more.
Every Day I Read provides many quiet moments for introspection and reflection, encouraging book-lovers to explore what reading means to each of us. While this is a book about books, at its heart is an attitude to life, one outside capitalism and climbing the corporate ladder. Lifelong and new readers will take inspiration from it, including a treasure trove of book recommendations blended seamlessly within.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Novelist Hwang (Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop) illuminates her ardent relationship with literature with this affable memoir in essays. In each entry, Hwang offers readers advice for interacting with books while reflecting on her own history with reading and writing. Subjects range from the lighthearted, as when Hwang advises on how to fit snippets of reading time into a busy day, to the profound, as in the essay "Read Books That Preserve Your Sense of Self," in which she considers how to use literature to protect one's individuality in a consumerist age. "The moment we welcome books into ourselves, we're bravely opening the door to our hearts," Hwang writes, making an earnest and convincing argument that the best antidote to cynicism is time spent inside someone else's mind. She illustrates her point in the book's penultimate chapter, in which she describes the vast array of books her family and friends are reading, highlighting how each one is quietly expanding their perspectives. Dedicated bibliophiles and casual readers alike will adore this.
