Comments on: Christopher Beha, The Whole Five Feet: I Loved Every Inch of It

By: Lisa Guidarini

Lisa Guidarini — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 18:13:32 +0000

I read and LOVED Beha’s book. I’ve also interviewed him, and I’ll post that to my blog sometime over the next few days.

Here’s what I wrote about the experience of reading this book: http://bluestalking.typepad.com/the_bluestalking_reader/2009/06/the-all-of-it.html

Lisa Guidarini, 90 % librarian, 10 % mortal

By: JayL

JayL — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 17:03:11 +0000

Added to my 1000-year queue. Looks really interesting. I wonder why I find it so fascinating to read about other people reading…

By: Nann

Nann — Wed, 20 May 2009 17:49:08 +0000

Karen, thanks for the recommendation. I’ve put it on hold. You might be interested in “A great idea at the time : the rise, fall, and curious afterlife of the Great Books,” by Alex Beam. It’s mostly about Great Books of the Western World, that set that most libraries have (sometimes classified as a set, sometimes individually) and also about the Great Books reading program.
(Mercifully, Beam does not set out to read the entire set in order to report that he did. Rather, he tells about Robert Maynard Hutchins (sp?), Clifton Fadiman, and Mortimer Adler, and people to whom GBOTWW were pitched.

Now that you mention it, perhaps there’s a young New Yorker now reading his (or her) way through Will & Ariel Durant’s Story of Civilization in preparation for writing a memoir….