If you are addicted to reading, add this book to your TBR list! I received this book from Baker Publishing in exchange for an honest review. That was a sticky wicket to explain!I found this book to be delightful, making be feel normal as few of my friends, acquaintances or family is readers. The memory of being put to bed and reading under the sheet with a candle, yes a candle! Only to spill hot wax on the sheet upon hearing my mother’s footsteps.
Reading all the Wizard of Oz books (I was so surprised to find there was more than one story!) and the Wind in the Willows series. The trips the library every week in the summer. I was also taken back in time to my childhood beginning love of books. The chapter, “How to Organize Your Bookshelves” really close to home as that has been a goal for a long time. Bogel captured the joys of being a bookroom along with the emotional and mental conflicts. She took me through a whole rainbow of emotions, from tears of laughter to tears of the heart. As you read the essays you feel a sense of “yes, there are others like me!” I felt understood and accepted in my odd little world as a bookworm. Bogel totally gets it! It is not genre biased (and neither are we, a reader is a reader!).
In our collective love of the written page we share certain traits and oddities exclusive to our tribe.This book is for us!!! Ms. We don’t have anything outwardly to show about our passion other than shelves and stacks of books visible only to those who visit our homes. They say “birds of a feather flock together” that is true of avid readers. That and the picture of the crammed bookshelf! I mused about the books written for other interests, but none are as quirky as a book to read about reading. The title of this book captured my attention because it is a regular thought of mine. The perfect gift for the bibliophile in everyone's life, I'd Rather Be Reading will command an honored place on the overstuffed bookshelves of any book lover. Known as a reading tastemaker through her popular podcast What Should I Read Next?, Bogel invites book lovers into a community of like-minded people to discover new ways to approach literature, learn fascinating new things about books and publishing, and reflect on the role reading plays in their lives. In this collection of charming and relatable reflections on the reading life, beloved blogger and author Anne Bogel leads readers to remember the book that first hooked them, the place where they first fell in love with reading, and all of the moments afterward that helped make them the reader they are today. I'd Rather Be Reading is the perfect literary companion for everyone who feels that way. Our books are a part of who we are as people, and we can't imagine life without them. Our books shape us, define us, enchant us, and even sometimes infuriate us. For so many people, reading isn't just a hobby or a way to pass the time-it's a lifestyle.
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