Finished: My Life With Bob (Paul) A book about books, written by New York Times Review editor, Pamela Paul. Bob is her Book of Books. It's the book she has kept listing all of the books she has read since her junior year in high school. My Life With Bob is a book about Pamela's life as a shy, book-loving, person and how each of the books she read had some impact, good or bad, on her life. She talks more about her own life experiences than she really does about the books, so the chapter titles, which drove me to buy the book, were a bit misleading. However, it was interesting to see her grow as she weathered: her parents' divorce, having all brothers, having all step-brothers, her parents' stand-offishness, her own self-consciousness and misgivings, her dream wedding to her dream man that turned into a broken-hearted divorce less than a year later, her traveling to live in Thailand with no language or culture experience about Thailand what so ever, her struggles and self-doubt about whether she should become a writer, her post-divorce relationship, her father's death, and finally some of the good things: meeting her next soul mate and husband, having three children with him, becoming a successful author, and finally having her dream job as first the New York Times Children's books reviewer, and then moving on to the New York Time Review editor for all the books. Though I think I would have liked reading more about the actual books that influenced her, just the snippets she gave were interesting and prompted me to write down a few titles that I'm adding to my "to read" list. :-)