A Reading Diary
Samanth Subramanian has a nice little review of Alberto Manguel's A Reading Diary in which he "revisits one book from his youth every month, over the course of the year." I first came across the book in a shop in South Africa while I was 'wasting' time in a bookshop and was struck by the large number of authors and books I have not even heard of, let alone read! Samanth feels the same way
On one level, A Reading Diary profoundly depresses me. There are far, far too many authors whom I haven't read, and probably never will. Who has even heard of Adolfo Bioy Casares or Sei Shonagon or Dino Buzzati or Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis? Where can I find them? Yet these authors are so familiar to Manguel that he is revisiting their works!
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