A working father whose life no longer feels like his own discovers the transforming powers of great (and downright terrible) literature in this laugh-out-loud memoir Andy Miller had a job he quite liked a family he loved & no time at all for reading Or so he kept telling himself But no matter how busy or tired he was something kept niggling at him Books Books he'd always wanted to read Books he'd said he'd read when he hadn't Books that whispered the promise of escape from the 644 to London & so with the turn of a page began a year of reading that was to transform Andy's life completely This book is Andy's inspirational & very funny account of his expedition through literature classic cult & everything in-between Crack the spine of your unread Middlemarch' discover what The Da Vinci Code' & Moby-Dick' have in common (everything surprisingly) & knock yourself out with a new-found enthusiasm for Tolstoy Douglas Adams & The Epic of Gilgamesh' The Year of Reading Dangerously' is a reader's odyssey & it begins with opening this book