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saundersmo 's review for:
Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
by Anne Fadiman
Fadiman shares personal meditations on her library, reading habits and the general ways we all interact with books. It is a funny, insightful and honest look at how readers interact with their books and language. I especially enjoyed "Marrying Libraries" the author's semi-traumatic experience of merging libraries with her husband (I am dreading, dreading this day so I thank her for this glance into how other book lovers make this work) and "Never do that to a Book" which highlights an argument that my family has on a regular basis. This series of essays reminds me that as long as there are still true bibliophiles there will always be books because we simply wouldn't be the same without them. Short, sweet and very readable (although you may want a dictionary as I had to look up several words in the process).