Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books
In this delightful memoir, the book critic for NPR's Fresh Air reflects on her life as a professional reader. Maureen Corrigan takes us from her unpretentious girlhood in working-class Queens, to her bemused years in an Ivy League Ph.D. program, from the whirl of falling in love and marrying (a fellow bookworm, of course), to the ordeal of adopti...show more
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I wanted this to be like "Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader". Maureen Corrigan is not "common" enough, I suppose. Every time she tiptoes into vulnerability with her own life story, she immediately backpedals into what she knows best: academia. I often wondered if she just used her lecture notes. Worth having for the booklist in the back. Maybe I'll just make a copy...I won't be rereading or using for reference.
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