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by Maureen Corrigan (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 201 pages
  • Publisher: Random House (6 Sep 2005)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0375504257
  • ISBN-13: 978-0375504259
  • Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 16 x 2.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,047,190 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars An intimate conversation of life and books that book worms share, 23 April 2008
By Louise Amkaer (Greenland) - See all my reviews
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It's literary criticism. It's an autobiography. Neither tag ambly describes Maureen Corrigan's "Leave me alone, I'm reading". If I had to compare it to something it would be a book club - the kind of intimate conversation of life and books that book worms share.

Maureen, yes, we're on a first name basis - Maureen talks of three genres, she has read and reread throughout her life: women's extreme-adventure tales, detective fiction, and Catholic Secular-Martyr Tales intermingled with reflections of her life.

And what has this book taught me? That I am not alone in the world. There are other extremist book worms out there. That although reading is a private activity, it can be shared. That I have the power to draw a red thread through my past readings and that it doesn't have to conform with any curriculum or known genres. And above all, that there is plenty more to read. Maureen speak of plenty that I MUST read.

Exemplary!

Louise.
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