My Reading Life Audiobook (Free)

Bestselling article writer Pat Conroy acknowledges the books that have shaped him and celebrates the profound result reading has already established on his life.

Pat Conroy, the beloved American storyteller, is a voracious reader. Starting as a youth interest that bloomed into a life-long companion, reading continues to be Conroy’s portal to the globe, both to the farthest edges of the globe and to the deepest chambers of the human being soul. His passions range widely, from Milton to Tolkien, Philip Roth to Thucydides, about My Reading Life encompassing poetry, background, philosophy, and any mesmerizing story of his indigenous South. He has for years held notebooks in which he records words and expressions, as time passes creating a vast reservoir of playful turns of term, amazing flashes of explanation, and snippets of wonderful sound, all simply for his like of language. But for Conroy reading is not simply a pleasure to enjoy in off-hours or a way to obtain motivation for his personal writing. It would hardly end up being an exaggeration to declare that reading has preserved his life, and if not his life after that definitely his sanity.

In My Reading Life, Conroy revisits a life of reading through a range of wonderful and often surprising anecdotes: sharing the pleasures of the neighborhood library’s huge cache with his mother when he was a young man, recounting his decades-long relationship with the British teacher who pointed him onto the path of characters, and describing a profoundly influential period he spent in Paris, aswell as reflecting on various other pivotal people, locations, and experiences. His tale is a shifting and personal one, girded by wisdom and an undeniable credibility. Anyone who not only enjoys the pleasures of reading but also is convinced in the power of books to form a life will see here the best defense of that credo.