Will Schwalbe, Random House author of the New York Times best-seller The End of Your Life Book Club will be joining the Midtown Reader on Thursday, March 2nd to read and sign his latest  - Books for Living.  A Booklist and Publisher's weekly Starred Review selection, Books for Living provides a reading guide, some great suggestions, and discusses the power of reading to impact and change lives.  Schwalbe has worked in publishing and as a journalist, and is also the author of Send: Why People Email So Badly and How To Do It Better.

The great Canadian mystery writer Louise Penny describes Will's book as "a personal journey through a life of reading. But like any great journey, it is far more than an accumulation of miles, or words. "Books for Living" is a map, a chart, to the places deep inside ourselves where books can take us.It s about how stories, how characters, inspire us, guide us, reveal us."Books For Living" is now one of my favorite reads of all time, and I know I will revisit it over and over.But be warned. It's also quite an expensive book to read since I kept calling my local bookseller and ordering the volumes Will mentions in each chapter. This is a beautiful, powerful, warm, funny, awe-inspiring odyssey. An absolutely astonishing gift to all of us who have spent our lives loving books."

Enough said!