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Old 12-05-2019, 01:48 AM   #39
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What an interesting concept. I'll give it a second. Plus the price is quite reasonable.
Yes, The Binding is certainly an interesting concept. Within it people muse about the possibility of fiction (as we know it) and how it could possibly compare to the real stories bound from people's actual lives.

But this is one of those books where the description is both perfectly accurate and mostly useless. To tell more is to give details away. It's not fast paced but I found it a fascinating and compulsive read. There are some oddities about the way it is told, but they work (or did for me).

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I wanted to find a non-fiction book that celebrated reading, such as what we read and why we read. The Reading Life by C. S. Lewis was recommended to me. I didn't realize it was just published as an ebook in October. I wondered why the line at my library was so long! However it seems like a very interesting book that others in the club would enjoy so I'm jwriting this post just to share and bring attention to it.

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Thanks. I do find C.S. Lewis interesting - despite my lack of affinity for religion. I wonder how much of this I've read elsewhere. It seems likely to be a book that owes much (good or bad) to its editors. The description seems to suggest that the original or earlier title for the book might have been "How to Read".
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