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Nina Sankovitch
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Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading
— published 2011 — 8 editions |
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Am so glad I started my new year off with this book! Was reading it quickly, because I'd gotten it for my mother, but found it so full of wisdom and the infectious JOY of reading, I slowed down because I didn't want it to end.
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'The next day I read Watership Down, all 476 pages of it.'
When Nina Sankovitch lost her sister to cancer at the age of 46, grief threatened to overwhelm her. Taking a time-honoured path, she used endless family-centred activity to keep the heartac... " Read more of this review » |
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"Every day for one year, Nina Sankovitch read an entire book and posted a review on her website -- all while raising four boys. As a mother of just two children, a mother who struggled to find time to read this one book, I was curious to know how...
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“It is a gift we humans have, to hold on to beauty felt in a moment for a lifetime.”
― Nina Sankovitch, Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading
― Nina Sankovitch, Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading
“Books. The more I thought about how to stop and get myself back together as one sane, whole person, the more I thought about books. I thought about escape. Not running to escape but reading to escape. Cyril Connolly, twentieth-century writer and critic, wrote that “words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living.” That was how I wanted to use books: as an escape back to life. I wanted to engulf myself in books and come up whole again.”
― Nina Sankovitch, Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading
― Nina Sankovitch, Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading
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