An outsider married to a village insider offers to teach the local children. The island is caught in the middle of a territorial war and the teacher in a small village has left, fleeing the conflict. Mister Pip is set on a fictional island in the Pacific. One of the books I read during my year of reading a book a day was Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones. And “Magical” because books are magic, powerful magic. “Tolstoy” because I read his last novel during my year of reading “Purple Chair” because I did a lot of my reading in a ratty, smelly, but very comfortable purple chair. My memoir about this year of reading – and a lifetime of reading - is entitled Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading. Nina Sankovitch's Tolstoy and the Purple Chairįrom October 2008 through October 2009, I read a book a day.
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