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Imagine keeping a record of every book you've ever read. What would this reading trajectory say about you? With passion, humor, and insight, the editor of The New York Times Book Review shares the stories that have shaped her life.Pamela Paul has kept a single book by her side for twenty-eight years - carried throughout high school and college, hauled from Paris to London to Thailand, from job to job, safely packed away and then carefully removed from apartment to house to its current perch on a shelf over her desk - reliable if frayed, anonymous-looking yet deeply personal. This book has a name: Bob.Bob is Paul's Book of Books, a journal that records every book she's ever read, from Sweet Valley High to Anna Karenina, from Catch-22 to Swimming to Cambodia, a journey in reading that reflects her inner life - her fantasies and hopes, her mistakes and missteps, her dreams and her ideas, both half-baked and wholehearted.



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Pamela Paul

Pamela Paul is the editor of The New York Times Book Review, which she joined as the children's books editor in 2011, and oversees books coverage at The New York Times, where she hosts the weekly Book Review podcast.She is the author of seven books: " The Starter Marriage and the Future of Matrimony" was named one of the best books of 2002 by The Washington Post; her second book, "Pornified," was named one of the best books of 2005 by The San Francisco Chronicle. She is also the author of "Parenting, Inc.", "By the Book: Writers on Literature and the Literary Life from The New York Times Book Review," "My Life with Bob: Flawed Heroine Keeps Book of Books, Plot Ensues" and most recently, "How to Raise a Reader," co-written with Maria Russo. Her first picture book for children, "Rectangle Time," came out in February 2021.Paul's next book, "100 Things We've Lost to the Internet," will be published by Crown on October 26th, 2021 (and can be preordered now!) . Paul has been a contributor to Time magazine and The Economist, and a columnist for The New York Times Sunday Styles section and Worth magazine. Her work has also appeared in The Atlantic, The Washington Post, The New York Times Magazine, The Economist, Vogue, and other publications.You can follow Paul on Twitter @PamelaPaulNYT and on Instagram @PamelaPaul2018.



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