Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
by:
Anne Fadiman (author)
Anne Fadiman is the sort of person who learned about sex from her father's copy of "Fanny Hill", and who once found herself poring over a 1974 Toyota Corolla manual because it was the only thing in her apartment that she had not read at least twice. "Ex Libris" wittily recounts a lifelong...
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Anne Fadiman is the sort of person who learned about sex from her father's copy of "Fanny Hill", and who once found herself poring over a 1974 Toyota Corolla manual because it was the only thing in her apartment that she had not read at least twice. "Ex Libris" wittily recounts a lifelong obsession with books. Writing with humour and erudition she moves easily from anecdotes about Coleridge and Orwell to tales of her own pathologically literary family. 'One of the most delightful volumes to have come across my desk in a long while...witty, enchanting and supremely well-written' - Robert McCrum, "Observer".
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780140283709 (0140283706)
Publish date: March 2nd 2000
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 135
Edition language: English
I loved this from first word to last. A collection of essays first published in Civilization, each about some facet of the love of books or the written word. Her first essay, Marrying Libraries started the collection off on a high note with me; after 10 years together, I still can't quite embrace...
So Weird Al needs to dedicate his song “Word Crimes” to the Fadiman family, and I really want to met Fadiman and her husband George. (I swear, if I find they are divorced, I will sob uncontrollably for a minute). I picked this up at one of those really cheap book stores. You know t...
To metaksiążka - czyli książka o czytaniu książek. Aż gęsta od cytatów z innych autorów, pełna dziwnych, zapomnianych słów i pojęć, ale też anegdot o znanych i nieznanych pisarzach, muzykach, podróżnikach i politykach, dla których książki były czymś niesłychanie ważnym. Bibliofile zdają się tu być j...
We had been married in this loft, in full view of our mutually quarantined Melvilles. Promising to love each other for richer or for poorer, in sickness and in health -- even promising to forsake all others -- had been no problem, but it was a good thing the Book of Common Prayer didn't say anything...
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