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For Stella, Gibson, and Ash = Maria Popova For Elias and Theo, my sisters, my parents, my friend and mentor Arien Mack, and the Donnell and Widener liberaries, for sharing the world as it is and as it has been dreamed, interpreted, imagined, and might be with me. - Claudia Zoe Bedrick. | |
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When asked in a famous questionnaire devised by the great French writer Marcel Proust about his idea of perfect happiness, David Bowie answered simply: "Reading" | |
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-Dani Shapiro, page 50
This book is just what it claimed to be- a collection of letters by various well-known (and some not quite as well-known) readers to younger readers. It is what I might label as a coffee table book; it's an imposing size, has a beautiful cover, contains beautiful artwork inside, and doesn't have to be read in order. Each spread had a letter on the left page and an accompanying illustration on the right page.
For me, it was much more than the kind of book you buy just to impress guests by keeping it in a prominent spot in your living room. Since the title says the letters are written to a "young" reader, I was not quite as young as the intended audience. But the letters I found within helped me feel understood as a young adult reader. Some of the letters I loved the most were those by Laura Brown-Lavoie (page 18), Dani Shapiro (50), and Pamela Paul (218). ( )