A review by kirsten0929
Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader by Anne Fadiman

3.0

I didn't realize until I read the inside cover but she also wrote "The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down", which I thought was great. I love books, but she takes it to a whole new level. I found her bookish, sincere, and likable. There were definitely differences between us - she keeps all her books; I'm almost 100% library. She reads books like"The Tiger in the House" which contains unknowable words like "sepoy" and "paludal"; I read books like Bridget Jones Diary which doesn't. She's part of the New York literati; I'm, well, not. Somehow I could still relate to this collection of essays. I guess beneath it all, we book lovers are more alike than we are different. As did Adler in How to Read a Book, she also makes a good case for writing in your books, which I always kind of wanted to do but never have.