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A memoir for the bookish-inclined, using personal stories to demonstrate how books have a magical way to move a person from one stage of life to the next. ""This is a small gem of a book, tender, humble, loving."" --Mary Gordon ""Sweeney makes a charming companion, telling stories in joyful reflection."" --Jeff Deutsch, author of In Praise of Good Bookstores Former bookseller, longtime publisher, and author Jon M. Sweeney shows--with history and anecdotes centering around books such as Thoreau's Journal, Tagore's Gitanjali, Martin Buber's Hasidic Tales, and Tolstoy's Twenty-three Tales--what it means to be carried by a book. He explores the discovery that once accompanied finding books, and books finding us. He ponders the smell of an old volume, its heft, and why bibliophiles carry them around even without reading them. He demonstrates how and why there is magic and enchantment that takes place between people and books.

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Jon M. Sweeney is an award-winning author who has been interviewed in the Dallas Morning News and The Irish Catholic, and on television at CBS Saturday Morning. His book, The Pope Who Quit was optioned by HBO. He is also author of forty other books on spirituality, mysticism, and religion, including Meister Eckhart's Book of the Heart, with Mark S. Burrows, the biography Nicholas Black Elk: Medicine Man, Catechist, Saint, and Thomas Merton: An Introduction to His Life and Practices. His bookish reputation is nothing new. In 2014, Publishers Weekly featured Jon in an interview titled, ""A Life in Books and On the Move."" He began the 1990s as a theological bookseller in Cambridge, and ended the decade founding a multifaith publishing house, SkyLight Paths Publishing, in Vermont. He's worked in books and publishing ever since. Today he writes, reviews, edits, and recommends books, speaks regularly at literary and religious conferences, is a Catholic married to a rabbi, and is active on social media. Sweeney lives in the Riverwest neighborhood of Milwaukee. Twenty-plus years of experience acting on stage and screen has given Daniel Thomas May a keen ear for all the ticklish details of storytelling and distinctive characterizations. With more than 100 highly rated titles on Audible, Daniel's ""energetic,"" ""confident,"" ""deft,"" ""commanding"" narration makes him particularly adept in portraying adventurers of all sorts, whether in fantasy (Elidor Trilogy), sci-fi (nineteen-part Foreigner series, Audie Award Finalist), horror (Alaskan Undead Apocalypse series), romance (True Heroes series), or nonfiction dramatizations (Hatching Twitter, Run!).

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