![]() ![]() ![]() He describes how difficult it can be to balance independent reading with family time, and I found his descriptions of fatherhood quite touching. ![]() Miller took up this (self-imposed) challenge while parenting a young child, with a need to read something other than children’s books and recover an identity which was not relational to his job or his child. In The Year of Reading Dangerously: How Fifty Great Books (and Two Not-So-Great Ones) Saved My Life, Andy Miller rediscovers what makes reading so important to a fulfilling life, through a list of books that he felt he should have read before (and, in some cases, pretended he had already read). For Andy Miller – an English literature graduate, former bookseller, editor and author of two other non-fiction books – picking up Mikhail Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita in a bookshop kick-started his abandoned reading habit, starting an attempt to get through fifty books over the following year. If you would consider yourself to be a bibliophile, but can’t remember the last time you read a book for fun, you’re not alone. ![]()
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