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A review by kimswhims
The Madman's Library: The Strangest Books, Manuscripts, and Other Literary Curiosities from History by Edward Brooke-Hitching
5.0
The Madman's Library is probably the perfect folly to finish off a 2020 reading year.
Fabulous illustrations and written with an understated tongue in cheek scepticism that really appealed to my sense of humour. Despite reading about books created from all sorts of things, including bound in human skin and written in blood (ehhhh- that's the sound of me making a face through a whole chapter of icky things). It covers an enormous amount of ground. Filled to the brim with interesting titbits about books written in code and Cryptic books. Literary hoaxes and curious collections. Some of the supernatural books, religious books and Science curiosities were as fanciful as each other and probably could have been interchanged in Chapters.
Back to my not so much mad library it goes.... it's not overdue at least :D
Fabulous illustrations and written with an understated tongue in cheek scepticism that really appealed to my sense of humour. Despite reading about books created from all sorts of things, including bound in human skin and written in blood (ehhhh- that's the sound of me making a face through a whole chapter of icky things). It covers an enormous amount of ground. Filled to the brim with interesting titbits about books written in code and Cryptic books. Literary hoaxes and curious collections. Some of the supernatural books, religious books and Science curiosities were as fanciful as each other and probably could have been interchanged in Chapters.
Back to my not so much mad library it goes.... it's not overdue at least :D