![]() ![]() From that point forward, she says, books seemed to choose her as much as she chose them. But Heller’s gags didn’t play well in the snowy, somber setting, says Nelson. In week one, she set out to read Ted Heller’s Funnymen, a book about stand-up comics, while staying in a Vermont home once owned by Alexander Solzhenitsyn. ![]() “In reading, as in life, even if you know what you’re doing, you really kind of don’t,” she says. Nelson, who had originally intended to select 52 books for 52 weeks of reading, says her plan fell apart almost immediately. When things go wrong, I read more.” In her new book, So Many Books, So Little Time: A Year of Passionate Reading (Putnam, $22.95, 224 pages, ISBN 0399150838), Nelson takes the reader along for a year’s worth of literature and life, offering funny, wise commentary on the ways in which the two intersect. ![]() “Books get to me personally,” says New York Observer publishing columnist and self-proclaimed readaholic Sara Nelson. ![]() Recreation for some, therapy for others, books can enrapture, enrage, envelop and amaze as these talented authors demonstrate. From tales of childhood to thoughts on Tolstoy and Twain, a trio of new books by these literature lovers reflects the perks and quirks of their page-turning obsession. Avid readers Sara Nelson, Nancy Pearl and Michael Dirda happily share the celebrated statesman’s sentiment. “I can not live without books,” Thomas Jefferson once wrote. ![]()
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