James Mustich
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Born
in Bronx, New York, The United States
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1,000 Books to Read Before You Die: A Life-Changing List
7 editions
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2018
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1,000 Books to Read Before You Die Page-A-Day Calendar 2021
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The Path to Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #1):
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A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life:
"This might be my all-time favorite book on craft. It's just so generous and gentle, so easy to get your arms around George Saunders' ideas of what makes good writing. This book will ACTUALLY convince you it's okay to write a sh*tty first draft, and w"
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“To get lost in a story, or even a study, is inherently to acknowledge the voice of another, to broaden one’s perspective beyond the confines of one’s own understanding. A good book is the opposite of a selfie; the right book at the right time can expand our lives in the way love does, making us more thoughtful, more generous, more brave, more alert to the world’s wonders and more pained by its inequities, more wise, more kind.”
― 1,000 Books to Read Before You Die: A Life-Changing List
― 1,000 Books to Read Before You Die: A Life-Changing List
“1000 Books to Read Before You Die is neither comprehensive nor authoritative, even if a good number of the titles assembled here would be on most lists of essential reading. It is meant to be an invitation to a conversation—even a merry argument—about the books and authors that are missing as well as the books and authors included, because the question of what to read next is the best prelude to even more important ones, like who to be, and how to live.”
― 1,000 Books to Read Before You Die: A Life-Changing List
― 1,000 Books to Read Before You Die: A Life-Changing List
“Readers read in so many different ways, any one standard of measure is inadequate. No matter their pedigree, inveterate readers read the way they eat—for pleasure as well as nourishment, indulgence as much as education, and sometimes for transcendence, too. Hot dogs one day, haute cuisine the next. Keeping”
― 1,000 Books to Read Before You Die: A Life-Changing List
― 1,000 Books to Read Before You Die: A Life-Changing List
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