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  <title><![CDATA[So Many Books, So Little Time: A Year of Passionate Reading]]></title>
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  <default-description>Sometimes subtle, sometimes striking, the interplay between our lives and our books is the subject of this unique memoir by well-known publishing correspondent and self-described &quot;readaholic&quot; Sara Nelson. From Solzhenitsyn to Laura Zigman, Catherine M. to Captain Underpants, the result is a personal chronicle of insight, wit, and enough infectious enthusiasm to make a passionate reader out of anybody.</default-description>
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  <original-publication-year type="integer">2003</original-publication-year>
  <original-title>So Many Books, So Little Time: A Year of Passionate Reading</original-title>
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  <read_at>Sun Jan 25 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[There were moments in this book where I was convinced she was writing about me...the way her husband doesn't read, yet she tries to get him to read; how some of her friends simply don't understand her adoring love for all things bookish...those are just a few. However, there were moments when I roll...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44276989">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Nov 05 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really liked this book.  I just love reading about other people reading &quot;addictions&quot;, how they select their books and where their &quot;love of reading&quot; takes them.  I might not agree with all of her opinions in this book, but I loved and agreed with her when she said that you can't...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33617538">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 06 00:00:00 -0800 2005</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of my favorite quotes, so how could I pass this book up?  The author chose 52 books to read in a year and then wrote about how well she stuck with her list.  I really enjoyed this book.  The author has the same obsessive thoughts about books and reading that I do so I could relate to muc...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55178108">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A fun, cute little book about one reader's goal to read a book a week.  The writing was light and fun even when dealing with more serious subjects.  I just sailed through this, and, like the book nerd I am, saw myself in this book more times than I care to count.<br/><br/>Towards the beginning of ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61607233">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Sep 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;A year of passionate reading?&quot; Hmm. I like the idea of a book-obsessed journalist taking me on a year-long reading adventure. But, <em>So Many Books...</em> didn't really work for me. <br/><br/>Partly, I felt the tone was wrong. In places, it read like a real warts-and-all memoir (Nelson was qui...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71528913">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Sep 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Recently I was watching CSPAN's Book TV (yes, apparently I'm a nerd). I was watching a program with women authors and one of the author's statements (Sara Nelson) really hit home with me about the way I feel about reading and my books. Naturally, I had to procure this particular one as I felt a defi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70180920">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="49547339">
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  <read_at>Mon Mar 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Fun book about Nelson's reading habits for a year. Her and I couldn't have more divergent tastes for books but it was still good to read about another read-aholic. Despite sounding slightly neurotic, she did a lovely job of explaining how books and life can get all intermingled. She writes a very ho...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49547339">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="74261228">
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  <read_at>Mon Oct 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[After about 50 pages into it, I decided to put it down.  For someone who is an editor and columnist, the grammar is just awful.  I realize my own writing style would probably make Henry Fowler cringe; but for someone who writes for a living?  It seemed as if she had no idea of how to construct a mea...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74261228">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue May 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I picked up this book randomly browsing at the library--a book about reading books?  Why not!  It's an easy, quick read, good for relaxing before going to sleep.  I read some of the other Goodreads reviews as I started it and braced myself for some of the things they mentioned -- the most annoying p...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55221815">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="64370550">
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  <read_at>Tue Jul 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A book about books.  While interesting and informative, I had a hard time really getting into the material.  Perhaps it just that I don't really like too many non-fiction books.  Apparently my taste in reading differs quite a bit from Ms. Nelson's.  Which is fine - to each their own I say.  I'd say ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64370550">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="60855359">
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  <read_at>Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Tue Jun 23 18:09:46 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I think the reason I liked this book so much is simply that I identified with so much of what Nelson had to say.  She articulated many of my own musings about reading and &quot;readers&quot;--views on book-lending and book-borrowing (and book-recommending) etiquette, and how a bad recommendation can...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60855359">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Don't know if it's because it's written by an American (and therefore focussed more on books published in the US), or because I hadn't read many of the same books as the author, but I didn't get much out of this at all. Had expected to be overwhelmed with lots of exciting new ideas for reading but I...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54762316">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Such a disappointment!!! &quot;A Year of Passionate Reading&quot; was about almost everything <em>but</em> reading - we learned about problems in her marriage (where's the respect for her husband?), we learned about her travels and the important people she knows and meets, and we get lots of <u>titles</u> of books ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64928497">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was apprehensive about finally reading this book, to tell you the truth....I'd saved <br/>it for several months and kept picking it up and admiring its cutesy title, its cartoonish cover, and its clever book concept <br/>(try to read a book a week for a year and then write about the experience)....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64958946">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm such a bookaholic that I will read just about any book ABOUT books, too.  (Basbane's tales of book-love are some of my favorites.)<br/><br/>This diary of a year's worth of reading by Sara Nelson came to me at just the right moment.  I was between books with nothing to read, lost and lonely wan...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57586555">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Apr 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[ This book was so fun! It was so great to have someone put into words how I feel about reading. From the dilemma of choosing the next book, to the sadness of having a fabulous book end, to having friends recommend books, she covers it all, and very well at that. She could be a bit crass at times and...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54080523">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Mar 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is definitely worth the read in the &quot;books about books&quot; category.  The author writes for a fashion magazine, although she hardly ever talks about the fashion industry.  The truth is, she is one of &quot;us&quot;.  She is a bookie.  She knows what makes us tick.  She decides to re...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50054992">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I thought that I would love this book, since I undertook a very similar challenge last year of reading a book a week.  But I didn't love this book.  I barely even liked it.  Seemed like she was just bragging about liking to read and reading a lot and having lots of friends who were writers.  I guess...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40028195">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Jul 07 18:15:28 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I enjoyed this book and found a lot to relate to, since I too am a book crazy wife with a non-reading hubby.  I've read a lot of the books she talked about here in her reading year so that also added interest.  Basically though this is a collection of essays or journal responses to the books she rea...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62058453">more...</a>]]></body>
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