Nina Sankovitch - Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading
Published: 2011-06-07 | ISBN: 0061999849, 0061999857 | EPUB + MOBI | 256 pages | 3 MB
Catalyzedby the loss of her sister, a mother of four spends one year savoring a greatbook every day, from Thomas Pynchon to Nora Ephron and beyond. In the tradition ofGretchen Rubin’s The Happiness Project and Joan Dideon’sA Year of Magical Thinking, Nina Sankovitch’ssoul-baring and literary-minded memoir is a chronicle of loss,hope, and redemption. Nina ultimately turns to reading as therapy andthrough her journey illuminates the power of books to help us reclaim ourlives.