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Lynne Sharon Schwartz

Auteur van Ruined by Reading: A Life in Books

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Writer Lynne Sharon Schwartz was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. She received a B. A. from Barnard College, an M. A. from Bryn Mawr, and started work on a Ph.D. at New York University. She chronicled her love of reading and the meaning it has had upon her life in a book called Ruined by toon meer Reading. She has published around twenty books including Rough Strife, which was nominated for a National Book Award and Leaving Brooklyn, which was nominated for the Pen/Faulkner Award for Fiction. She has also written for children in such books as The Four Questions, explaining the traditions of Passover. She is also an Italian translator and her translations include A Place to Live and Other Selected Essays by Natalia Ginzburg and Smoke over Birkenau by Liana Millu. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder

Werken van Lynne Sharon Schwartz

Ruined by Reading: A Life in Books (1996) 833 exemplaren
Het derde leven (1983) 256 exemplaren
The Four Questions (1989) 237 exemplaren
Leaving Brooklyn (1989) 119 exemplaren
The Writing on the Wall (2005) 92 exemplaren
The Fatigue Artist (1995) 82 exemplaren
In voor- en tegenspoed (1980) 57 exemplaren
Referred Pain: And Other Stories (2004) 35 exemplaren
Not Now, Voyager: A Memoir (2009) 18 exemplaren

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Fascinating collection of essays about and conversations with the writer W G Sebald (Max). Exploring his themes of memory, silence (as in how his nation of origin refused to talk about the war, so he felt born into this silence), and his wonderful digressions. His books don't fit into any easy category, he has never called them novels or non-fiction, while both true stories and blurring of reality are within the pages.
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Caroline_McElwee | 10 andere besprekingen | Dec 13, 2023 |
This is a short book in which Schwartz shares her opinions on reading and life.

The fact that it is not divided into chapters was annoying to me. It made it harder to stop and start, since I didn't want to read it all at once.

Some of her thoughts are spot-on, others I couldn't relate to. Some of her writing is pretentious. There were spoilers for a couple books.

There were too many little sexual references for my taste; though not graphic, they were still unnecessary.

Despite these flaws, I did enjoy the read overall, and have added a few books she mentioned to my to-read list.… (meer)
 
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RachelRachelRachel | 24 andere besprekingen | Nov 21, 2023 |
An intriguing and lovely exploration into the writings of Sebald. Much to think about here.
 
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2,127
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