I recently became a fan of Anne Bogel after reading her book about personalities. I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life, her second book, is a collection of essays that celebrates the reading life, exploring the personal and universal experiences of book lovers, from the books that first hooked them to the challenges of a growing "to-be-read" pile. Anne invites readers to reflect on reading as a lifestyle, covering topics like finding the right book at the right time, the joy of reading, and the role books play in shaping identity.

How can a lover of books not love this book when it states so clearly what reading is all about? "People read for a multiplicity of reasons. Nearly forty years in, I can tell you why I inhale books like oxygen: I'm grateful for my one life, but I'd prefer to live a thousand, and my favorite books allow me to experience more on the page than I ever could in my actual life. A good book allows me to step into another world, to experience people and places and situations foreign to my own day-to-day existence. I love experiencing the new, the novel, the otherwise impossible, especially when I can do it from my own comfy chair."