A review by sams84
Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader by Anne Fadiman

4.0

This is a delightful collection of short essays on the joys of reading, books and book collecting that dips into various periods, events and moments in Fadiman's life where books played a pivotal role, from her early childhood where some form of book was permanently attached to her person to the moment her and her partner merged their libraries (something that fills me with dread to this very day!). Fadiman captures what many of us bookworms spend our lives trying to explain to those non-book people (when we manage to lift our noses out of our book(s) anyway), the joy of a good book, from the feel of it in our hands, the look of it on our shelves (or floor, desk, stair or wherever else we may keep them) to the power of the words and notes contained within its pages. A fab little collection.