Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books Corrigan Maureen
Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books Corrigan Maureen In this delightful memoir, the book critic for NPR's Fresh Air reflects on her life as a professional reader. program,…
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Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books Corrigan Maureen
In this delightful memoir, the book critic for NPR's Fresh Air reflects on her life as a professional reader. program, from the whirl of falling in love and marrying (a fellow bookworm, of course), to the ordeal of adopting a baby overseas, always with a book at her side. Maureen Corrigan takes us from her unpretentious girlhood in working-class Queens, to her bemused years in an Ivy League Ph.D.
And in her explorations of the heroes and heroines throughout literary history, Corrigan's love for a good story Along the way, she reveals which books and authors have shaped her own life--from classic works of English literature to hard-boiled detective novels, and everything in between.