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leelulah 's review for:
Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
by Anne Fadiman
Read for the LitLife Challenge 2021
16. Any Book Mentioned on the Podcast
This book succesfully got me out of my reading slump, it seems, and I was impatient to finish it.
Most of essays in this book were funny and relatable, others not so. I understand why some people found this book obnoxious but she just was trying to be relatable for the most part, since people who claim to love books are seen as excentric anyway.
I think it should go as a warning that while this book is not excessively inappropiate, it is for adults though most sexual references are just kind of... ridiculous and anecdotical
I also was a little worried by the fact that her father owned Fanny Hill in the first place and didn't keep it away from her as firmly as he should have. I think she tried this for relatability points, since we all have come across an inappropiate book in one way or another. But it was disturbing to think about
There was an essay about a book the only Catholic member of the family owned, one of those books on womanhood which, I guess, point given, can be a bit too much sometimes, but I've seen more proliferation of these on protestant communities and, to be fair, she's far more lenient to men of past times and acknowledges they aren't necessarily sexist, just not as used to women's presence in public life.
16. Any Book Mentioned on the Podcast
This book succesfully got me out of my reading slump, it seems, and I was impatient to finish it.
Most of essays in this book were funny and relatable, others not so. I understand why some people found this book obnoxious but she just was trying to be relatable for the most part, since people who claim to love books are seen as excentric anyway.
I think it should go as a warning that while this book is not excessively inappropiate, it is for adults though most sexual references are just kind of... ridiculous and anecdotical
Spoiler
I honestly was annoyed with her trying to convince her husband about what extremely cold places had going for her by comparing them to the body of an actressI also was a little worried by the fact that her father owned Fanny Hill in the first place and didn't keep it away from her as firmly as he should have. I think she tried this for relatability points, since we all have come across an inappropiate book in one way or another. But it was disturbing to think about
There was an essay about a book the only Catholic member of the family owned, one of those books on womanhood which, I guess, point given, can be a bit too much sometimes, but I've seen more proliferation of these on protestant communities and, to be fair, she's far more lenient to men of past times and acknowledges they aren't necessarily sexist, just not as used to women's presence in public life.