Am I Alone Here? : Notes on Living to Read and Reading to Live

from TheAmpersand

A curious, charming literary hybrid that combines autobiography, musings on the author's favorite writers, and meditations on the nature of storytelling. As if to underline its eccentricity, it includes hand-painted versions of the books that the author discusses. The author comes off throughout ...

from MM_Jones

Presents stories as a means of explaining things to oneself. Thought provoking, but hard to relate to some of the more obscure references.

from paulamc

Thanks to Librarything and Catapult for a free copy of this book. Am I Alone Here? Is subtitled Notes on Living to Read and Reading to Live. That pretty much sums up the book. Peter Orner has written a series of short essays, some just about his life and others about authors and stories that he h...

from gypsysmom

I consider that I have read a lot of different authors but over half of the writers Peter Orner mentions in this memoir about living to read and reading to live are completely new to me. Even the ones of which I have heard are not exactly household names. And the ones that I have actually read I ...

from freckles1987

Part memoirs, part essay collection, and part reader's advisory; Am I Alone Here? didn't excite me when I picked it up but I found I couldn't put it back down. Admittedly, I have never read any of Orner's fiction but now I want to. Over 41 or so essays Orner explores writing and reading; his fath...