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4.05 AVERAGE
4.05 AVERAGE
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funny
inspiring
lighthearted
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I’d like to just cry and read it again. It took me a minute to pick this book back up and finish it but I related to everything Anne talks about in this book. After graduating with an English degree I really lost the love of reading for awhile and it’s taken me years to get back into immersive reading. This book got me falling in love again.
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Another book of essays by Anne Fadiman, this time mostly on the subject of books and bookish paraphernalia. Can relate to a passage mourning the loss of a favourite pen and the essay about merging book collections with your beloved.
Marked quite a few passages for reference.
Marked quite a few passages for reference.
informative
lighthearted
reflective
relaxing
fast-paced
A lovely little book for bibliophiles. Somewhat highbrow (by an upper middle class/lower upper class white woman born in the mid-20th century) but told with a warm, appealing voice and with a great love of books and how they can slip into every aspect of a person's life at any age, from small children literally building with them to her account of sharing mutual favorites by reading to her blind-late-in-life father.
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This was a really interesting little book of essays and I loved it. I just want to marry a bookworm too and read out loud to one another while lying in a pool of sunlight ahhhh
Anfangs eher unspannend, die Kapitel(-Themen) werden aber besser und jede:r, der/dir gerne liest, sollte dieses Buch gelesen haben! ☺️
Ms. Fadiman paints a vivid picture not only her own love affair with books, but she also demonstrates the value, necessity, and the capacity for pleasure found in books for any dedicated reader. This little book of essays, with titles such as "The Joy of Sesquipedalians" and "The Catalogical Imperative," are written with clarity, wit, and a true sense of what it means to be a bibliophile. I don't know how many times I nodded my head in agreement at a particular peculiarity that only avid readers can identify with, or chuckled in amusement about some habit or quirk that I recognized in my own life. At the same time, her essays helped me to identify some of my own oddities in regards to books (not just anything can serve as a bookmark; it has to have meaning) and habits (my "currently reading" list tends to be a pile of books that migrates around my room and in and out of book bags-yes, I have more than one-and my backpack until I am through with them, after which they must be placed in a specific position and manner on my shelf). Now if I could just form a coherent system for that magical day when I am able to unbox all of my books at once so that they may no longer remain separated from each other, rather than simply coming out for fresh air at random and then only a semester at a time!
This is my first encounter with Anne (I feel like I should call her be her first name after the close personal details that she imparts in her essays), and I look forward to reading some more of her work. These essays helped me to remember not only my childhood days of reading, but also how my love of literature was reawakened in college and now seminary. There were two essays that I found myself skimming (sorry, Anne, but I don't think you would mind), and overall, greatly enjoyed this book.
By the timestamps on Goodreads, it may seem that it took me a very long time to read this book. Worry not, however, that delay is due simply to my other reading obligations (graduate school theology courses mostly), and I suspect that this would take a reader with even an average reading speed a few days to work through.
This is my first encounter with Anne (I feel like I should call her be her first name after the close personal details that she imparts in her essays), and I look forward to reading some more of her work. These essays helped me to remember not only my childhood days of reading, but also how my love of literature was reawakened in college and now seminary. There were two essays that I found myself skimming (sorry, Anne, but I don't think you would mind), and overall, greatly enjoyed this book.
By the timestamps on Goodreads, it may seem that it took me a very long time to read this book. Worry not, however, that delay is due simply to my other reading obligations (graduate school theology courses mostly), and I suspect that this would take a reader with even an average reading speed a few days to work through.
funny
lighthearted
reflective
medium-paced