Jon M Sweeney, author of MY LIFE IN SEVENTEEN BOOKS - a Boswell event

Boswell Book Company presents an evening with Jon Sweeney, author of My Life in Seventeen Books.

Former bookseller, longtime publisher and author Jon M. Sweeney shows—with history and anecdotes centering around books such as Thoreau’s Journal, Tagore’s Gitanjali, Martin Buber’s Hasidic Tales, and Tolstoy’s Twenty-three Tales—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.

From Jeff Deutsch, director of Chicago’s Seminary Co-op Bookstores and author of In Praise of Good Bookstores: “Sweeney makes a charming companion, telling stories in joyful reflection from the books he’s carried and the contemplative, quiet, searching—and most certainly bookish!—life he’s lived.”

Jon M. Sweeney is an award-winning author of over forty other books on spirituality, mysticism, and religion.

from Boswell. Signed copies and personalization available on pre-orders. Please note that signed copies will not be shipped until after the event.

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