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Nightstand
By PIPER JONES CASTILLA
Published December 10, 2006
Roxanne Coady co-edited The Book That Changed My Life: 71 Remarkable Writers Celebrate the Books That Matter Most to Them (Gotham Books) and founded R.J. Julia Booksellers in Madison, Ct. What is on your nightstand? I'm finishing up Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Do you recommend it? I do recommend it, but it is not light reading. It's brutal and violent, yet it's helped me understand Nigerian history. In The Book That Changed My Life, do you have a favorite answer? It was Robert Kurson's answer. He wrote about Ernest Becker's Denial of Death, a book about how people refuse to acknowledge mortality. After reading his essay, I read the book, and it shows us how while we're busy creating a legacy, we are stopping ourselves from living. This is grim reading as well, and I recommend pairing it with something like Nora Ephron - balance the grim with fun reading. Piper Jones Castillo, Times staff writer
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