Reader's Book of Days

A witty and addictively readable day-by-day literary companion.At once a love letter to literature and a charming guide to the books most worth reading, A Reader's Book of Days features bite-size accounts of events in the lives of great authors for every day of the year. Here is Marcel Proust starting In Search of Lost Time and Virginia Woolf scribbling in the margin of her own writing, "Is it nonsense, or is it brilliance?" Fictional events that take place within beloved books are also included: the birth of Harry Potter's enemy Draco Malfoy, the blood-soaked prom in Stephen King's Carrie.

A Reader's Book of Days is filled with memorable and surprising tales from the lives and works of Martin Amis, Jane Austen, James Baldwin, Roberto Bolano, the Bronte sisters, Junot Diaz, Philip K. Dick, Charles Dickens, Joan Didion, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Keats, Hilary Mantel, Haruki Murakami, Flannery O'Connor, Orhan Pamuk, George Plimpton, Marilynne Robinson, W. G. Sebald, Dr. Seuss, Zadie Smith, Susan Sontag, Hunter S. Thompson, Leo Tolstoy, David Foster Wallace, and many more. The book also notes the days on which famous authors were born and died; it includes lists of recommended reading for every month of the year as well as snippets from book reviews as they appeared across literary history; and throughout there are wry illustrations by acclaimed artist Joanna Neborsky.

Brimming with nearly 2,000 stories, A Reader's Book of Days will have readers of every stripe reaching for their favorite books and discovering new ones.

Un tovaras literar intelept si citibil de dependenta de zi cu zi. Odata o scrisoare de dragoste catre literatura si un ghid fermecator pentru cartile cele mai demne de citit, A Reader's Book of Days prezinta relatari ale evenimentelor din viata marilor autori in fiecare zi a anului. Iata-l pe Marcel Proust care incepe In cautarea timpului pierdut si Virginia Woolf mazgalind in marja propriei sale scrieri: „Este o prostie sau este stralucire?” Sunt incluse, de asemenea, evenimente fictive care au loc in cartile indragite: nasterea dusmanului lui Harry Potter, Draco Malfoy, balul inmuiat in sange din Stephen King's Carrie. O carte a zilelor cititorului este plina de povesti memorabile si surprinzatoare din viata si operele lui Martin. Amis, Jane Austen, James Baldwin, Roberto Bolano, surorile Bronte, Junot Diaz, Philip K.