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Bound to Please
Bound to Please: An Extraordinary One-volume Literary Education : Essays on Great Writers and Their Books | Michael Dirda
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A showcase of one hundred of the world's most significant books offers the author's introductory essays on such writers as James Boswell, Colette, and Joseph Roth, and includes explorations of a range of genres and specific works.
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MaGoose
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Bound to Please: An Extraordinary One-volume Literary Education : Essays on Great Writers and Their Books | Michael Dirda
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I finally finished this doorstop of a book. Good overall, although I did skim some essays. Dirda's essays introduce and discuss writers and books that he thinks should be on everyone's TBR list. I picked up several books to add to my list. Some books mentioned will never be on my list of things I've read. To each his own.

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MaGoose
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Bound to Please: An Extraordinary One-volume Literary Education : Essays on Great Writers and Their Books | Michael Dirda
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Great! Litsy now has a website. I'll be updating my profile and sharing posts later today.

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Jobe
Jobe
Bound to Please: An Extraordinary One-volume Literary Education : Essays on Great Writers and Their Books | Michael Dirda
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Or at least mark with a sticky note. #marginalia #underlining

GingerAntics Yes!!! 6y
Aimeesue Arguing in the margins! I do that all the time! 😂😂😂 6y
vivastory I just reread this piece earlier today. 6y
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Jobe
Jobe
Bound to Please: An Extraordinary One-volume Literary Education : Essays on Great Writers and Their Books | Michael Dirda
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A quote from this book: “We smile at a sentence by Jane Austen or savor an epithet by James Joyce because their words cause the scales to drop from our eyes. Suddenly we see the world afresh”😍 #booksaboutbooks
THE SCALES DROP FROM OUR EYES. Wow! What literature does for us! Helps us to see the world from all different perspectives.👏👏👏👏

vivastory I love Michael Dirda! 6y
GabrielleDubois Must be an interesting book. The first time I read that words cause the scales to drop from our eyes, it was in a Théophile Gautier's book from 1835 or so... How many female writers are there compared to male writers in this book? 🙂 6y
Jobe @GabrielleDubois Yeah I just checked it‘s very heavily male 6y
GabrielleDubois @Jobe And though there were a lot of great female writers in the past centuries...! I'm currently trying to read them, it's so different from male writers, and it's so important to see ourselves and the world around us through female words. I've always been said that female stories were most often boring, but it's not. I'm 51, am glad I can still change my mind and discover and learn! 🙂 6y
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