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Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading
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Connie  G
When Nina Sankovitch's beloved sister died, Nina embarked on a year of reading a book a day as therapy. Nina had felt guilty that she was still living, but Anne-Marie had died. Books taught her many lessons such as finding moments of beauty, and to stop running to make up for what her sister had lost. Some of the characters in the books about families reminded Nina about Anne-Marie's strength and intelligence. The year of reading and introspection taught Nina how to handle the loss of her sister ...more
Donna Jo Atwood
Several years after her much-loved older sister's death at 46, Nina takes a year to read a book a day. She uses books to find a way to make, if not sense, a pathway for using the grief that she has felt. She also explores the grief and sadness from her parents' early life in war-torn Europe.
But Sandovitch doesn't leave us to welter in the throes of grief. She introduces offsetting memories of fun, of laughter, of pride and achievement, all as part of life both in "real life" and in books.
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Books to survive death and loss of a loved one, but I prefer reading one novel a day just to be happy. It was ok, but as I had already read most of the books it was not so interesting.

I libri come mezzo per sopravvivere alla morte di una persona casa, anche se io preferirei leggere un libro al giorno anche solo per essere felice. Non é stato male, ma siccome conoscevo giá la maggior parte dei libri, nemmeno particolarmente interessante.
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