Falling in Love with a Book

Every so often I read a book that makes me so excited I cannot wait for it to be published and see how the rest of the world responds to it.

When this happens, all you want to do is wake up in the morning to read, can’t wait to return from work to curl up on the couch, and spend all spare minutes of your day thinking about how the plot will unfold. You become so attached to the characters that your husband begins to confuse them with actual people in your life—because he’s hearing about them a little too much.

I am not a usual reader of books about history, politics, or law. But after reading this book, I will seek out others in these categories. I hadn’t expected a page-turner.

As one of its blurbs promises, Fighting for the Press reads as a legal thriller that is in fact a true story. I finished it, as one does the best books, already nostalgic. I wanted more. I wished I had lived through the event, known its characters, knew the industry (not distant from my own) as it existed then.

This is one of the best books I've read this year, by someone well recognized in the sectors of journalism and law, but not someone who necessarily imagined himself an author. What I’m learning more and more in my business is that sometimes it is those who are not first and foremost writers who bring the most captivating perspective, a stylistically new, superb way of conveying a story, into our booklovers’ world.

This post was originally published on Lucinda Literary on March 17, 2013.