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  • ISBN: 0977111946
  • Category: Biographies
  • Author: Timothy James Bazzett
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  • Language: English
  • Publisher: Rathole Books (August 23, 2010)
  • Pages: 426 pages
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  • Rating: 4.6
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Born in 1944, Tim Bazzett grew up in west Michigan and spent three years in the army after high school, completing tours in Turkey and . Booklover: A One-Year Journal of Reading, Reflecting & Remembering Mar 30, 2011.

Born in 1944, Tim Bazzett grew up in west Michigan and spent three years in the army after high school, completing tours in Turkey and Germany. He then attended Ferris State and Central Michigan Universities where he earned a teaching degree and an MA in English. After teaching for five years at Monroe County Community College in southeast Michigan, in 1976 Bazzett reenlisted in the army, staying five years that time, serving again in Germany and earning a second Master's degree from Eastern Michigan University. by Timothy James Bazzett, Susan Bazzett-Griffith, Benjamin Busch.

As a member of perhaps the last generation of truly devoted readers, Tim Bazzett uses a lifelong love affair with books as a springboard to recalling an eventful life marked by unexpected twists and turns that took him and his family from Michigan to California to Europe and back, during his various stints as student, teacher, and recycled soldier.

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As a member of perhaps the last generation of truly devoted readers, Tim Bazzett uses a lifelong love affair with books as a springboard to recalling an eventful life marked by unexpected twists and turns that took him and his family from Michigan to California to Europe and back, during his various stints as student, teacher, and recycled soldier. He reflects thoughtfully on his 21 years as a Russian linguist with the National Security Agency, noting the sacrifices required by a career cloaked in secrecy and the toll it can take on a marriage. In the end, however, Booklover is most of all a love story, a nakedly candid and affectionate look back by Bazzett at more than forty years of living and raising a family, all with the same brown-eyed girl he met on a Michigan college campus in 1967. If you are a booklover, you will love this book.
Reviews about Booklover: A One-Year Journal of Reading, Reflecting & Remembering (7):
Lost Python
I wanted to like this book. Thought it would be of interest based on its title. Seemed very repetitious, slow and trite. I continued to hope it would improve enough that I could give it a better rating. It didn't.
Flas
torn between possible careers in military intelligence and academia, while maintaining a sane home life, Bazzett searches for, and finds, a way of life that lets him read books -- lots of books. his descriptions of Michigan ring true. when I finished this memoir, I wished I knew him.
Munigrinn
Tim Bazzett’s BOOKLOVER is the memoir of a literary man who’s growing older, written in a mellow, easygoing style. One supposes from the subtitle, “A One-Year Journal of Reading, Reflecting, and Remembering” and the stack of books on the cover that Bazzett will discuss the books he read in a year—and he does, sort of. But his method suggests THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MARK TWAIN or even TRISTRAM SHANDY—that is, Bazzett announces a subject, the thing that occurs to him in the dated entry, but then feels free to wander all over the territory of his life, richly illustrating the subject before at last reaching the meat of it.
Bazzett has written several memoirs—of his boyhood, in REED CITY BOY, and of his first hitch in the army, SOLDIER BOY. BOOKLOVER is a sequel to both. A bookish kid, a mama’s boy as he describes himself, Bazzett grew up on a farm where there was not much money to spare. Not ready for college, Bazzett escaped to the army, which provided him with adventure and eventually, maturation. But college was a thing apart. Attaining a Master’s degree was an achievement requiring hard work and smarts, and moved Bazzett out of the working class.
However, the degree was in English, and there is nothing to do with such a degree but teach English. Or maybe work in a hardware.
Anyhow, Bazzett taught at a podunk college, and while he loved his colleagues, soon grew weary of grading freshmen composition papers. He cites that profound old Peggy Lee song—a fateful song for many a questing soul—“Is That All There Is?”
He decided to return to the army, even though it led to a move from Michigan to Monterey, and considerable trials for his young family. But this time around, Bazzett was a contender. He worked in the National Security Agency as a Russian linguist through the end of the Cold War, when the Soviet Union had come to be, as Bazzett succinctly puts it, “a toothless old bear.” In fact, he worked all the way through 9/11, when the agency, and the country, took a dark turn it has yet to recover from.
A good time to retire, and write memoirs. Some of what Bazzett relates is pretty mundane—the adventures of parents in raising children, for instance. Or the endemic poverty of students as they try to rise above their upbringing, and join the middle class. Of course, the mundane is also the universal.
One truth shines through: Bazzett is a married man. His life would have no meaning without his loyal, in some ways long-suffering wife, Treve. Treve is Bazzett’s anchor, and because of her he’s a devoted family man. From the outside, one might look at the harmony and longevity of such a marriage in wonder.
But Bazzett takes the reader inside. He reveals details that one usually only encounters in fiction. The marriage almost cracked—and it happened, ironically enough, when the Soviet Union broke up, and Bazzett’s career was in crisis. Bazzett fell into deep depression, and began to ruminate over all sorts of things, such as his life-long, strained relationship with his father. Fortunately, Bazzett sought out counseling, and he and Treve patched things up, but surely these passages are the heart of his book, and they are quite moving.
Bazzett sets scenes, has an ear for dialogue, a gift for detail, and a sense of humor that ranges from subtle to bawdy. He seems to have read every book ever written. He’s written four memoirs, steadily honing his considerable skills. Maybe it’s time he wrote a novel.
Xor
"The author certainly doesn't lack self-esteem, and, while I appreciate his efforts at self-deprecation, they come off as pedantic, as does the rest of the book. There are plenty of other "book lovers" whose ramblings I'd rather read than this one's. After gritting my teeth through the halfway point, I gave up. I dropped the book off in the neighborhood tiny library and there it remains.
Kulwes
For those who have followed the fine writing and down to earth life experiences found in the previous novels of Timothy James Bazzett, then reading his latest heady memoir is a must. Bazzett has polished the skill of relating stories of his life to a fare-thee-well, pouring a lot of information about not only his personal history but also his sub rosa sage advice on coping with change, with loss, with family and with love in a manner that keeps the reader turning the pages to follow this very entertaining and seemingly spontaneous, off the cuff style of writing that fills these pages.

Bazzett is a book lover and has read probably more books than most everyone who will be reading this tome (over 400 pages): an introduction by his daughter Susan attests to the fact that every bookshelf in every room of the various houses in which the Bazzett family occupied is filled with read books - and she has inherited that bibliophilia gene. One sidebar observation about this book is the imagery created by Ben Busch that shows us the broad spread of types of books Bazzett has consumed, a generous artistic stack that leads us to a fascinating bibliography at books end with Bazzett listing the books of his collection.

But back to the book: Bazzett, faced with the fact that his wife was leaving Michigan for a month with their grandchildren and he pledged to write a book in a month to assuage his loneliness. That of course didn't happen, but instead Bazzett devoted a year to composing this his fifth book in as many years over a span of one year! Each 'chapter' is the day of the year that he wrote those notes, and what happens to the reader in this Pilgrim's Progress of a novel is the gradual unwinding of a life of some 40 years, a life made all the more fascinating by the types of work the author has had (student, teacher, soldier, Russian linguist for the National Security Agency), and a strong retrospective look at how his career choices affected his emotional and family life.

What strikes this reader is the major emphasis shift in conversation that is present in this book that was not always evident in his previous books: as his daughter points out in her introductory remarks, Bazzett has mellowed. This BOOKLOVER is rich in tongue in cheek humor as well as in fervent appreciation for his enduring love of his wife and family. The paragraphs that describe how he responded to his wife's return after the original month's absence is as understatedly touching as any love story written.

This, then, is a book of celebration of being given the opportunity to participate in living through a life at times trying and plagued by the isolation of secretiveness that is demanded by an occupation as sensitive as Bazzett's shift with the NSA, but a life remembered with reflective satisfaction and joy. You'll probably finish this book with a chuckle and a tear - and then place it on your own shelf of books to return to frequently. Grady Harp, October 10

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