The Year of Reading Dangerously

About this book

A working father whose life no longer feels like his own discovers the transforming powers of great (and downright terrible) literature in this laugh-out-loud memoir. Andy Miller had a job he quite liked a family he loved and no time at all for reading. Or so he kept telling himself. But no matter how busy or tired he was something kept niggling at him. Books. Books hed always wanted to read. Books hed said hed read that he actually hadnt. Books that whispered the promise of escape from the daily grind. And so with the turn of a page Andy began a year of reading that was to transform his life completely. This book is Andys inspirational and very funny account of his expedition through literature: classic cult and everything in between. Beginning with a copy of Bulgakovs Master and Margarita that he happens to find one day in a bookstore he embarks on a literary odyssey. From Middlemarch to Anna Karenina to A Confederacy of Dunces this is a heartfelt humorous and honest examination of what it means to be a reader and a witty and insightful journey of discovery and soul-searching that celebrates the abiding miracle of the book and the power of reading.