While travelling in Calgary, Alberto Manguel was struck by how the novel he was reading (Goethe's Elective Affinities) seemed to reflect the social chaos of the world he was living in. An article in the daily paper would be suddenly illuminated by a passage in the novel; a long reflection would be prompted by a single word.
He decided to keep a record of these moments, rereading a book a month, and formed A Reading Diary: a volume of notes, impressions of travel, of friends, of public and private events, all elicited by his reading.
From Don Quixote (January) to The Sign of Four (October) to The Wind in the Willows (December), Manguel leads us on an enthralling adventure in literature and life, and demonstrates how, for the passionate reader, one is utterly inextricable from the other.
- ISBN10 0374247420
- ISBN13 9780374247423
- Publish Date 27 October 2004 (first published 31 January 2004)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 15 August 2012
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Farrar Straus Giroux
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 205
- Language English