{"product_id":"my-life-in-seventeen-books-a-literary-memoir-hardcover","title":"My Life in Seventeen Books: A Literary Memoir - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJon M. Sweeney\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"This is a small gem of a book, tender, humble, loving. \u003cb\u003e--Mary Gordon\u003c\/b\u003e\"Sweeney makes a charming companion, telling stories in joyful reflection.\" \u003cb\u003e--Jeff Deutsch, author of \u003ci\u003eIn Praise of Good Bookstores\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eFormer bookseller, longtime publisher and author Jon M. Sweeney shows--with history and anecdotes centering around books such as Thoreau's \u003ci\u003eJournal\u003c\/i\u003e, Tagore's \u003ci\u003eGitanjali\u003c\/i\u003e, Martin Buber's \u003ci\u003eHasidic Tales\u003c\/i\u003e, and Tolstoy's \u003ci\u003eTwenty-three Tales\u003c\/i\u003e--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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJon M. Sweeney is an award-winning author who has been interviewed in the \u003ci\u003eDallas Morning News\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Irish Catholic\u003c\/i\u003e, and on television at CBS Saturday Morning. His book, \u003ci\u003eThe Pope Who Quit\u003c\/i\u003e, (Doubleday\/Image) was optioned by HBO. He is also author of forty other books on spirituality, mysticism, and religion, including \u003ci\u003eMeister Eckhart's Book of the Heart\u003c\/i\u003e, with Mark S. Burrows (Hampton Roads), the biography \u003ci\u003eNicholas Black Elk: Medicine Man, Catechist, Saint\u003c\/i\u003e (Liturgical Press), and \u003ci\u003eThomas Merton: An Introduction to His Life and Practices\u003c\/i\u003e (St. Martin's Essentials and Penguin Random House Audio, 2021).\u003c\/p\u003eHis bookish reputation is nothing new. In 2014, \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 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 (Twitter @jonmsweeney; Facebook jonmsweeney). Sweeney lives in the Riverwest neighborhood of Milwaukee.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 180\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8.6 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 07, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51984038854957,"sku":"9781958972311","price":23.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/HNEEypCKQV9781958972311.webp?v=1776081545","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/my-life-in-seventeen-books-a-literary-memoir-hardcover","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}