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OverviewA memoir for the bookish-inclined, using personal stories to demonstrate how books have a magical way to move a person from one stage of life to the next. “This is a small gem of a book, tender, humble, loving. —Mary Gordon “Sweeney makes a charming companion, telling stories in joyful reflection.” —Jeff Deutsch, author of In Praise of Good Bookstores Former bookseller, longtime publisher and author Jon M. Sweeney shows—with history and anecdotes centering around books such as Thoreau’s Journal, Tagore’s Gitanjali, Martin Buber’s Hasidic Tales, and Tolstoy’s Twenty-three Tales—what it means to be carried by a book. He explores the discovery that once accompanied finding books, and books finding us. He ponders the smell of an old volume, its heft, and why bibliophiles carry them around even without reading them. He demonstrates how and why there is magic and enchantment that takes place between people and books. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Jon M. SweeneyPublisher: Monkfish Book Publishing Company Imprint: Monkfish Book Publishing Company Dimensions: Width: 21.60cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 14.00cm Weight: 0.340kg ISBN: 9781958972311ISBN 10: 1958972312 Pages: 180 Publication Date: 20 June 2024 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsPrologue Chapter 1: The Martin Buber Book I Carried While My Marriage Failed Chapter 2: Three Inches of Hitler in Very Small Hands Chapter 3: A Means of Escape with My Side of the Mountain Chapter 4: Forbidden Books for Ordinary Teenage Trauma Chapter 5: In Search of Wendell Berry and an Expected Life Chapter 6: Monica Furlong’s Thomas Merton and How to Ruin a Honeymoon Chapter 7: Finding Tagore in Harvard Square Chapter 8: Tolstoy’s Twenty-three Tales and Learning to Walk on Water Chapter 9: Sitting with Swami and The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna Chapter 10: Hand-held Devotion (Books with Pictures) Chapter 11: Sin and Mercy at Brighton Rock Chapter 12: A Tiny Volume of What’s Impossible Chapter 13: Carrying Baron Corvo and My Own Petty Animus Chapter 14: With Patience Like Spring and Thoreau’s Journal Chapter 15: Ghost Stories as Kids Go Off to College Chapter 16: Black Elk Speaks and the Mystery of Religious Identity Chapter 17: Montaigne’s Essays and the Dependability of Change Afterword: All the Rest and What’s Next Acknowledgements Sources and Notes About the Author IndexReviews"""I love this book. The addictive experience of reading, which guides and charts our inner journey, is glancingly but vividly caught. Everyone will have their own list of books which they carry in their pockets and reread constantly. For some readers, this will instantly become such a book."" --A.N. Wilson, author of Confessions: A Life of Failed Promises""Here is a poetic account of a long journey among books whose power over the author's mind and heart was such that they became companions on the way. It fits in no category and is magnificent."" --Richard Greene, professor of English and director of the graduate program in creative writing, University of Toronto; author of An Unquiet Englishman: A Life of Graham Greene""This is a small gem of a book, tender, humble, loving, needed now as ever before when so many of us fear that reading--and the books that we read--are endangered species. --Mary Gordon, novelist, critic, and memoirist, author of The Company of Women, Joan of Arc: A Life, and many other books""Sweeney makes a charming companion, telling stories in joyful reflection from the books he's carried and the contemplative, quiet, searching--and most certainly bookish!--life he's lived."" --Jeff Deutsch, director of Chicago's Seminary Co-op Bookstores; author of In Praise of Good Bookstores" Author InformationJon M. Sweeney is an award-winning author who has been interviewed in the Dallas Morning News and The Irish Catholic, and on television at CBS Saturday Morning. His book, The Pope Who Quit, (Doubleday/Image) was optioned by HBO. He is also author of forty other books on spirituality, mysticism, and religion, including Meister Eckhart’s Book of the Heart, with Mark S. Burrows (Hampton Roads), the biography Nicholas Black Elk: Medicine Man, Catechist, Saint (Liturgical Press), and Thomas Merton: An Introduction to His Life and Practices (St. Martin’s Essentials and Penguin Random House Audio, 2021). His bookish reputation is nothing new. In 2014, Publishers Weekly featured Jon in an interview titled, “A Life in Books and On the Move.” He began the 1990s as a theological bookseller in Cambridge, and ended the decade founding a multifaith publishing house, SkyLight Paths Publishing, in Vermont. He’s worked in books and publishing ever since. Today he writes, reviews, edits, and recommends books, speaks regularly at literary and religious conferences, is a Catholic married to a rabbi, and is active on social media (Twitter @jonmsweeney; Facebook jonmsweeney). Sweeney lives in the Riverwest neighborhood of Milwaukee. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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