River of BooksA memoir of reading and working with books by the renowned Booklist editor. With the infectious curiosity of an inveterate bibliophile and the prose of a fine stylist, Donna Seaman charts the course of her early reading years in a book by book chronicle of the significance books have held in her life. River of Books recounts Seamans journey in becoming an editor for Booklist, a reviewer, an author, and a literary citizen, and lays bare how she

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