I love this book and now I love this video, too.
Catalyzed by the loss of her sister, Nina Sankovitch spent a year savoring great books from Thomas Pynchon to Nora Ephron, ultimately changing her outlook on life. In 2008 Nina started up the Read All Day website (www.readallday.org) to chronicle her year of reading one book a day. TOLSTOY AND THE PURPLE CHAIR is a memoir of that year, and an entire life, of reading.
“What Sankovitch has accomplished in her first book is not only to celebrate the transformational, even healing, powers of reading, but to give the reader a feeling of reading those books as well, through the eyes of an astute reader.” — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
Books are so powerful, they can help a reader to heal and cope with difficult situations. I’d love to hear your thoughts on this book, and I’d love to know which books have helped you through a rough time.
Send us an email and we’ll send a copy of TOLSTOY AND THE PURPLE CHAIR to the first 25 folks who respond.
-Virginia