A Reading Diary

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Summary: A delightful year in a few hours
Review: Alberto Manguel has repeatedly shown himself to be good company to spend time with and this brief book only shores up that impression further. Each chapter is devoted to a different book he has read over the course of a year and the thoughts and associations that reading brings. It is part diary, part literary criticism, part commonplace book. For a man who has devoted himself to a lifetime of reading and writing, and who has lived an extraordinary global existence, the anecdotes and quotes he can pull together make for a enriching "conversation" spent in this man's company. A year's holiday for any reader, in the space of a few hours.