Ebook {Epub PDF} Morningstar: Growing Up with Books by Ann Hood

Ann Hood’s memoir MORNINGSTAR: GROWING UP WITH BOOKS fits this to a tee. In her new book, she describes how, as a young girl, growing up in a small town in Rhode Island, with parents and grandparents who were not educated, and who did not have an appreciation of books, she had to fight to save her money to purchase books at every chance she could/5(61).  · Just ask bestselling novelist Ann Hood, who, as an intellectually insatiable child, turned to local libraries and bookstores for a roadmap to the world beyond her provincial New England town. Hood's Morningstar: Growing Up with Books charts her early, revelatory forays into the works of Sylvia Plath, John Updike, and Herman Wouk. She perfectly describes the thrill of recognition of /5(8). “[An] enchanting journey through Ann Hood’s early fascination with reading. Book lovers will find Morningstar irresistible.”—Lynn Sharon Schwartz, author of Ruined by Reading Growing up in a mill town in Rhode Island, in a household that didn’t foster a love of reading, novelist Ann Hood discovered nonetheless the transformative power of literature.4/5(7).

Morningstar: Growing Up with Books Ann Hood. Norton, $ (p) ISBN More By and About This Author. OTHER BOOKS. Kitchen Yarns: Notes on Life, Love, and Food; She Loves You. Morningstar audiobook (Unabridged) mid; Growing Up With Books By Ann Hood. Visual indication that the title is an audiobook. Listen to a Sample. Sign up to save your library. With an OverDrive account, you can save your favorite libraries for at-a-glance information about availability. When Ann Hood's memoir Morningstar: Growing Up With Books arrived in the mail, I opened it up to glance at it. I read the Introduction, in which Hood talks about her family and hometown and discovery of books, in particular, Louis May Alcott's Little Women. I made myself a cup of hot tea and settled in to read the first chapter.

Morningstar book. Read reviews from world’s largest community for readers. In her admired works of fiction, including the recent The Book that Matters Mo. Growing up in a mill town in Rhode Island, in a household that didn’t foster a love of literature, Hood discovered nonetheless the transformative power of books. She learned to channel her imagination, ambitions, and curiosity by devouring ever-growing stacks. Ann Hood’s memoir MORNINGSTAR: GROWING UP WITH BOOKS fits this to a tee. In her new book, she describes how, as a young girl, growing up in a small town in Rhode Island, with parents and grandparents who were not educated, and who did not have an appreciation of books, she had to fight to save her money to purchase books at every chance she could.