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Pat Conroy

Start date: July 1, 2022

Finish date: August 31, 2022

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July 1st thru August 31st
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Jun 14, 2022 ☮Karen rated it really liked it

Shelves: southern-america, overdrive, nonfiction, audio, read-in-2022

I knew I'd enjoy this even before I knew what it was about, just because Pat Conroy wrote it. And in the audiobook, he read it as well. He said that in his adult life he tried to read 200 pages a day, certainly more than he wrote each day. And here he shared some of his favorites and what he liked about them. It all started with his mother reading Gone With the Wind to him every summer. She wanted him to become a writer, and Conroy attests that before you can write, you must read, voraciously. H ...more

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Jul 18, 2022 Irene rated it really liked it · review of another edition

This is a memoir of the books and people that influenced Conroy as an author. Conroy has a gift of creating an intimacy with the reader. I was totally engrossed.

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Apr 09, 2012 Pat rated it it was amazing

LOVED this book about authors, literature, and the important people in his reading life who influenced his writing development. It is a wonderful walk through good literature that we have all read at some time in our lives. For example, "My mother hungered for art, for illumination, for some path to lead her to a shining way to call her own. She lit signal fires in the hills for her son to feel and follow. I tremble with gratitude as I honor her name." Don't miss this excellent, short, journey t ...more

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Apr 12, 2012 Joanne added it

Interesting view of Conroy's view of his own life and the influences that formed him as a writer.
It is always a pleasure to read the magnificent use of words from this author. Like other writers
of the South, reading Pat Conroy, makes me want to go visit all the places he so adequately describes. ...more

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