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Bookish lives: reader's memoirs.(An Open Book: Coming of Age in the Heartland)(So Many Books, So Little Time: A Year of Passionate Reading)(Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books)(Book Review)

From: The Christian Century  |  Date: 5/18/2004  |  Author: Bush, Trudy

An Open Book: Coming of Age in the Heartland. By Michael Dirda. Norton, 320 pp., $24.95.

So Many Books, So Little Time: A Year of Passionate Reading. By Sara Nelson. Putnam, 242 pp., $22.95.

Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books. By Azar Nafisi. Random House, 347 pp., $2.3.95.

NOT ONLY HAVE book sales been rising in recent years, but those who love to read are speaking out. A subgenre of the memoir has appeared: the memoir of the reading life. That one of these ...

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