Comments on: My Magical Year of Reading and How it Led to Writing a Book https://booksbywomen.org/my-magical-year-of-reading-and-how-it-led-to-writing-by-nina-sankovitch/ Fri, 08 Jun 2012 17:06:41 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 By: Honoring Literary Fiction Author Camilla Trinchieri : Women Writers, Women Books https://booksbywomen.org/my-magical-year-of-reading-and-how-it-led-to-writing-by-nina-sankovitch/#comment-2228 Fri, 08 Jun 2012 17:06:41 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=564#comment-2228 […] Google.it, Google.fr and more. I even discovered Nina Sankovitch (who years later, kindly wrote a guest post for Women Writers, Women Books) because she’d reviewed The Price of Silence and showed up in my searches. Though inactive […]

]]> By: Terry Helwig https://booksbywomen.org/my-magical-year-of-reading-and-how-it-led-to-writing-by-nina-sankovitch/#comment-1956 Thu, 01 Mar 2012 23:25:51 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=564#comment-1956 Nina, I have read many memoirs about difficult childhoods and so often the others reveal that books were life lines. In my memoir Moonlight on Linoleum, I describe reading as my magic carpet that took me to other worlds and helped me hold onto my dreams.

April 23, 2012 is World Book Night. I am a volunteer (there will are 50,000 in all) that will help give away 1,000,000 books to help promote reading as a life-long passion.

Thanks for your lovely article. I am the oldest of six sisters and I know the deep and loving bond that sisters share.

My best to you,
Terry Helwig, Author
Moonlight on Linoleum: A Daughter’s Memoir
http://www.terryhelwig.com
@TerryHelwig

]]> By: Alissa Lukara https://booksbywomen.org/my-magical-year-of-reading-and-how-it-led-to-writing-by-nina-sankovitch/#comment-501 Sat, 13 Aug 2011 00:18:50 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=564#comment-501 Your piece touched me to the core. I was like the girl you wrote about. Books saved my life over and over again when I was growing up. Touched me so deeply, taught me about life. And more. Reading about other’s experiences, being transported by their journeys through all manner of life challenges, learning what they learned, letting it seep into me — it shifted and transformed me. Writers, their books, were like lights shining at the end of tunnels showing a way and inspiring me, helping me persist to find my own way. They let me glimpse other ways of living and being.

And I still love being transported by books, touched and catalyzed by them. It’s what motivated me to become a writer myself. I longed to tell stories that would touch others, too. It’s why I now write about the transformational power, the magic, books have in a blog and teach and encourage writers to trust that their words can have that impact.

Nina, I am inspired that you listened to your own call to read for a year, then recorded the magic, the wisdom you found in the books you read.

]]> By: Women Writers, Women's Books https://booksbywomen.org/my-magical-year-of-reading-and-how-it-led-to-writing-by-nina-sankovitch/#comment-154 Tue, 07 Jun 2011 16:04:19 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=564#comment-154 Intriguing on the new project. When and where will we be able to read about that. You now have quite the track record on your projects!

]]> By: Nina Sankovitch https://booksbywomen.org/my-magical-year-of-reading-and-how-it-led-to-writing-by-nina-sankovitch/#comment-153 Tue, 07 Jun 2011 15:39:39 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=564#comment-153 In reply to Women Writers, Women’s Books.

Yes, reviewing a book by a book reviewer is a twist. But I love reading, and most reviewers also love reading, so even if the book is not their cup of tea, the message will be: READ! Also, I am not really a book reviewer in that I read all sorts of books from all different times, not the just the latest releases. This summer I will be reviewing books from and about the 1900s, to pursue a project I am interested in.

]]> By: Women Writers, Women's Books https://booksbywomen.org/my-magical-year-of-reading-and-how-it-led-to-writing-by-nina-sankovitch/#comment-151 Tue, 07 Jun 2011 13:01:18 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=564#comment-151 Nina, thank you so much for sharing your story here on the day of your book release! When I read this line your wrote about your sister, “She lost her tomorrows,” the tears started up. They continued with this.

“Now it was up to me to live a life worthy of all the tomorrows I had been granted. I needed to live a life worth being alive for – a life she would have wanted for herself, and for me.”

Thank you for sharing your love of your sister and your journey through grief with us. Thank you for unabashedly adoring reading books and giving us details that recall our own intimate moments with books. This is a celebration of the gift that authors give their readers.

As a book reviewer, you’ve been a go-between between authors and new readers. Now you’ve joined their illustrious fellowship, and it’s time for other book reviewers to review yours. Do you think book reviewers hesitate at all when reviewing another book reviewer’s book?

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