The Magician's Assistant by Ann Patchett

You sit there for a while, because you're thinking if you open the book again, you will have found that you missed a chapter, that there is MORE. What!! Ends!! You are not ready, but there you have it. You get hypnotised by the story, by the language, you get into this rhythm that you can't break until you finish it, so you keep reading and reading until it is 12:15 in the am and you are finally done, but then you can't believe it ends. If you have read Bel Canto, (and you should have, though I'm not sure I'm spelling it right at the moment.)then you know her style. So tonight I read the Magician's Assistant, by Ann Patchett. So if I do read it-I like it, in varying degrees, but I like it. If I don't like a book I can barely read it, much less finish it. I know you are thinking, is there a book you don't like, Laura? Here's the deal. In 2012, Patchett was on the Time 100 list of most influential people in the world by TIME magazine. In 2010, when she found that her hometown of Nashville no longer had a good book store, she co-founded Parnassus Books with Karen Hayes the store opened in November 2011. It was also there that she wrote her first novel, The Patron Saint of Liars. She later attended the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts, where she met longtime friend Elizabeth McCracken. Following graduation, she attended Sarah Lawrence College and took fiction writing classes with Allan Gurganus, Russell Banks, and Grace Paley. Bernard Academy, a private, non-parochial Catholic school for girls run by the Sisters of Mercy.

the stable window that opens out into the imagination.' If asked if she could go any place, that place would always be home. Patchett said she loves her home in Nashville with her doctor husband and dog. She moved to Nashville, Tennessee when she was six, where she continues to live. Patchett was born in Los Angeles, California.

The Magician's Assistant by Ann Patchett