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Reading the World: Confessions of a Literary Explorer review – what literature reveals about a nation’s identity

Written By Unknown on Sunday, February 1, 2015 | 5:19 AM

Ann Morgan reads her way across the globe in this entertaining blog-turned-book

This book records the author’s adventures over the course of a year in which she read a book from every country in the world. It is a personal survey of contemporary literature and how it relates, or doesn’t, to national identity.

It is also the story of a blog (ayearofreadingtheworld.com) that reveals the cybersphere in its best light: a forum for sane, intelligent debate. Morgan’s project attracted comment, argument and suggestions from across the globe. Setting herself a weekly target of reading and blogging about four books, she had to fit the work around a full-time job, and her passion for the task sings from every page. “The richness of human variety,” she writes at journey’s end, “had never been as real to me as it was that year.”