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A review by gillie63
Bibliomaniac by Robin Ince
4.0
This was a Christmas present and whilst I finished it today (the same day as The Wine Lover's Daughter) I did actually start it a week or so ago!
I wasn't quite sure what to expect but it was about bookshops so that was fine with me. I was brought up by a woman who has over 5000+ cookery books (from 1600 to present day) and that doesn't include all the other non-cookery books. I thought I it was impossible for anyone to buy books with the same gay abandon as my mother. I was wrong. Robin Ince gives my late mother a very good run for her money and that made me smile, a lot.
As I said in my earlier review today, I'm not really into fiction at the moment and this was another essay that plugged into my life support system. Not perhaps with the same gut and emotional grip that The Wine Lover's Daughter did, but it certainly plucked enough strings to give me a slightly dizzy head.
Lots of familiar bookshops, plenty I didn't know. Two I love that were not there, at either end of the spectrum I missed People's Bookshop and Hatchards but hey ho still a brilliant read and lots of new shops to explore.
I wasn't quite sure what to expect but it was about bookshops so that was fine with me. I was brought up by a woman who has over 5000+ cookery books (from 1600 to present day) and that doesn't include all the other non-cookery books. I thought I it was impossible for anyone to buy books with the same gay abandon as my mother. I was wrong. Robin Ince gives my late mother a very good run for her money and that made me smile, a lot.
As I said in my earlier review today, I'm not really into fiction at the moment and this was another essay that plugged into my life support system. Not perhaps with the same gut and emotional grip that The Wine Lover's Daughter did, but it certainly plucked enough strings to give me a slightly dizzy head.
Lots of familiar bookshops, plenty I didn't know. Two I love that were not there, at either end of the spectrum I missed People's Bookshop and Hatchards but hey ho still a brilliant read and lots of new shops to explore.