Book by Book
by Michael Dirda | 
Howards End is on the Landing
by Susan Hill | 
Read This Next
by Howard Mittelmark |
One for the Books
by Joe Queenan | 
Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading
by Maureen Corrigan | 
How Reading Changed My Life
by Anna Quindlen |
A Reader's Delight
by Noel Perrin | 
So Many Books, So Little Time
by Sara Nelson |
Jacob's Room is Full of Books
by Susan Hill | 
Why I Read
by Wendy Lesser |
Ten Years in the Tub
by Nick Hornby |
I'd Rather Be Reading
by Anne Bogel | 
The Most Wonderful Books
by Michael Dorris |
Ruined by Reading
by Lynne Sharon Schwartz | 
A Year of Reading
by Elisabeth Ellington | 
The Great Movies
by Roger Ebert | 
A Slip of the Keyboard
by Terry Pratchett | 
Reflections
by Diana Wynne Jones | 
The Art of the Novel
by Milan Kundera |
Awake in the Dark
by Roger Ebert |
From the esteemed cultural critic and journalist Wendy Lesser, Nothing Remains the Same is a bibliophile's dream: a book about the pleasures and surprises of rereading, a witty, intelligent exploration of what books can mean to our lives. Compared with reading, the act of rereading is far more personal -- it involves the interaction of our past selves, our present selves, and literature. With candor, humor, and grace, Lesser takes us on a guided tour of her own return to books she once knew, from the plays of Shakespeare to twentieth-century novels by Kingsley Amis and Ian McEwan, from the childhood favorite I Capture the Castle to classic novels such as Anna Karenina and Huckleberry Finn, from nonfiction by Henry Adams to poetry by Wordsworth. Lesser conveys an infectious love of reading and inspires us all to take another look at the books we've read to find the unexpected treasures they might offer.