A review by pierreikonnikov
A Reader on Reading by Alberto Manguel

4.0

Good literary criticism makes you want to read more: the best shows you that you have to, that humanity is in reading, and the book is the tool. Some essays are skippable, others are mandatory for anyone who has ever felt the warm magic of a bookshop without quite understanding why. Because of reading this, I havehad to limit myself to taking only my smallest bike box to the library, so enchanting is Manguel’s love of reading that if I could, I would take armfulls or books out at once.