I'D RATHER BE READING The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life

Anne Bogel loves to read--she hides in the bathroom to finish a book, plans trips around visiting favorite bookstores, and visits the library next door multiple times a day. She says she is a fast reader; she also speaks really, really quickly. It can be a challenge to keep up as she relates hilarious anecdotes of carting so many books in the passenger seat of her car that the seatbelt warning is triggered, or her son going to the library without pants on because it is next door so it is just an extension of the driveway, or being obsessed with author acknowledgments. Bogel doesn't mull over the reading life--that would be too sedate. Instead, she busts with enthusiasm and joy, and it is infectious and absolutely charming. A.B. © AudioFile 2018, Portland, Maine [Published: SEPTEMBER 2018]