Miller draws up The List of Betterment, 50 titles from Middlemarch to War and Peace with some surprises in between his aim is to read them in a single year.
(It took me three goes, so I know how he felt on that one.) He had this epiphany when he picked up and fell in love with Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita – a book he’d never been able to get into before. His solution to his reading block was to embark upon a grand project – to read all those books, mostly but not exclusively classics, that he had lied about reading before.
As a former bookseller, he had to be able to talk about each book he sold sometimes due to the familiarity with a title, it was easy to claim to have read a book when he hadn’t, (and we all do it – don’t we?). What do you do when you seriously lose your reading mojo? I tend to retreat into a palate-cleansing thriller to get mine back, but I’ve never had such a bad case of the bookish blues as Andy Miller did…Īndy had a great job in publishing, a happy marriage and a young son, but wasn’t getting anything from reading any more.
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