My Current Read...

How about this intriguing title, Who the Hell Is Pansy O'Hara? The Fascinating Stories Behind 50 of the World's Best-Loved Books?

For 18 months, authors Jenny Bond and Chris Sheedy compiled an amazing collection of biographies of the interesting people who wrote some pretty incredible books. Fictional Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice to Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code, and nonfictional Samuel Johnson's The English Dictionary to Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time, were just some of the captivating stories behind fifty of the greatest authors and their most famous literary creations. Each so different and yet so compelling.

It reveals in short, well written chapters, the lives, loves, motivations, and quirky, fascinating details involving some of the best-loved books of the Western world. "The book offers an entertaining and informative journey through the minds of writers and the life experiences that took these amazing works from notion to novel."

While I'm only on chapter 4: Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky, I am so hooked. What a literary treat!

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.” -Stephen King 

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