Conversation: Marathon for a Reader

Editor and critic Sara Nelson decided to read almost round the clock for a year. Here's what she learned

Sara Nelson is the consummate publishing insider. She has covered books as editor, reviewer, reporter and columnist for such media outlets as Glamour, the New York Times, Self, the Wall Street Journal, Oxygen and the New York Observer. Nelson set out on a mission to read 52 books in 52 weeks and write about her experience. The result is So Many Books, So Little Time: A Year of Passionate Reading (Putnam; 242 pages). TIME spoke with Nelson:

How did your family feel about your project?

I don't think they got it at first. I'm not sure I really got it...

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