. >> host: joining as a booktv is pamela paul, the editor of the "new york times" book review out with the latest book. who is bob? >> guest: my book of books. your right to use that pronoun to treat them like a person because i kind of do. he's been a companion that that kept i was 17 in this one journal i've written down the title o of the book that i have read. >> host: what kind of condition is bob in? >> guest: he's not in very good shape. i keep getting asked to bring along for appearances but he is, it's a really old-fashioned, it's not a fancy kind of journal. i bought it at the core stationary store and i spilled coffee on it. i feel like is rotted from within and he started to split at the seam scene delivered, the is starting to fray. ssa start talk about in which if you like is, unless it's up recement on his part perhaps. >> do you still record trade absolute. as soon as i finished a book. when i go away i just got back from australia as i read about five or six books when i was gone and it's like the first thing i do when i get home as ii get in there and i write down the

. >> pamela paul is here, "the new york times" reviewer, out with her book. who is bob? >> bob is my balk of -- book of books. he has been a companion i kept since 17. in one journal i have written down the title of every book i read. sgr >> what kind of condition is bob in? >> he is not in good shape. i keep getting asked to bring him along for appearance but it is an old fashion. not a fancy journal. i bought it at the corner stationary store and i spilled coffee on him. i feel like he is rotting from within and the binding is starting to fray as soon as i started talking about him. i don't know if is resentiment on his part. >> do you still record? >> oh, yeah. absolutely. as soon as i finish a book. i just got back from australia and read about five or six books and it is like the first thing i do is get in there and write down the name of every book. >> and what made you begin that process? >> i was essentially a failed teenage irest. like every young girl with writer ambitions i recorded my thoughts in a journal, in a diary, and it turned out that those entries wer

joining us on the tv is pamela paul, the editor of the new york times book review. who is bob? >> bob is my book of books. i treat him like a person. he's a companion that i've kept 17 in this one journal i've written down the title of every book that i read. >> what kind of condition is bought in? >> is not in good shape. i get asked to bring along for appearances but it's a really old-fashioned, not a moleskin be in the journal but i bought it at a corner stationery store and i feel like he's writing from within. he's split at the seams a little bit. the binding is brain. there's a bit of resentment on his part perhaps. >> used to record in him? >> ashley. as soon as i finish the book. i just got back from australia and i read about five or six books that i was gone and the first thing i do when i get home is get in there and write down the night under the name of every book what made you begin that project? >> i was essentially a field teenage diary writer. with every young girl has a ambition to write a journal or diary and it turned out that those entries were awful. i wou

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then the book review editor, pamela paul on her book, my life with bob. then harold evans talks about writing for clarity. actor alan alda on his book, if i understood you what i have this look, face. later columbia university professor examines black english in his book, talking back, talking black. next, panel on the english language from the 2017 virginia festival of the book and charlotte's fee. a hand this is one hour and ten minutes. >> a morning. i like to welcome you to word solid. my name is josh wheeler. i am the director of the thomas jefferson center the protection of free expression. the source of great pride for us at the thomas jefferson center that we have been involved in every one of the 23 virginia festival of the books. often you only think of free speech when you think of speech we don't like. then we hate actually. but we forget sometimes that free speech also allows us the great kind of expression that we can find in the art. science and everywhere. besides that can only be achieved were free to explore any idea or subject. that's w

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then the book review editor, pamela paul on her book, my life with bob. then harold evans talks about writing for clarity. actor alan alda on his book, if i understood you what i have this look, face. later columbia university professor examines black english in his book, talking back, talking black. next, panel on the english language from the 2017 virginia festival of the book and charlotte's fee. a hand this is one hour and ten minutes.

then, new york times book review editor pamela paul on her new book, life with bob. after that, harold evans talks about writing for clarity in his book do i make myself clear.

. >> host: joining as a booktv is pamela paul, the editor of the "new york times" book review out withthe latest book. who is bob? >> guest: my book of books. your right to use that pronoun to treat them like a person because i kind of do. he's been a companion that that kept i was 17 in this one journal i've written down the title o of the book that i have read. >> host: what kind of condition is bob in? >> guest: he's not in very good shape. i keep getting asked to bring along for appearances but he is, it's a really old-fashioned, it's not a fancy kind of journal. i bought it at the core

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