TITLE: Phantoms on the Bookshelves AUTHOR: Jacques Bonnet TRANSLATOR: Siân Reynolds DATE PUBLISHED: 2010 ISBN-13: 9781906694586 _____________________________ DESCRIPTION: "This enchanting study on the art of living with books considers how our personal libraries reveal our true nature:...
40,000 books. Bonnet has 40,000 books in his personal library. At one point he had bookshelves in his bathroom, so he couldn't use the shower and could only run the bath with the window open. He also had bookshelves in his kitchen, so no cooking with strong flavours could be done either. I've be...
There are some books that you take to immediately, some books that grow on you and some books that simply never go anywhere for you. This was one of them for me. It was well written, and for that reason, I commend it, but for many other reasons, I found it lacking. It was page after page of escapade...
I read half of this and suddenly could read not one page further. I'm not even sure why. I liked Bowman (ish) and there were so many interesting parts! His time in the navy during WWII, post-war America, the literary scene in New York. I just got really bored after he met Christine and it was a chor...
This book and its author were ill-served by all the hype that surrounded its publication - just a pleasant, episodic story-of-a-life. Ordinary writing, felt very old-fashioned, like a mid-list novel from the 50s. For a much better novel of this ilk, read William Boyd's ANY HUMAN HEART or Richard Yat...
The feelings All That Is generated in me are similar to my feelings toward my least favorite of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novels. That probably means this is actually a good book but I am too shallow to appreciate it.I did love Salter's writing. The craftsmanship behind the sentences is what kept me rea...
my friend Chuck calls that "sport fucking". oh, Chuck. where have you and your crooked teeth been lately? I haven't seen you for so long. you're probably married by now.
Witty, if you can follow his anecdotes, instructional in some ways, but mostly just amusing for the person who truly suffers the affliction of bibliomania. Accordingly, the best part is the eight pages of bibliography at the end.
A bittersweet novel that at first seemed to deal mostly with the (unreliable) narrator's fantasies about fornication and sodomy in France but which ended up grabbing me with its surprisingly gentle and melancholy story. Without being too gender predjudiced I would say this is primarily a "male" nov...
I should preface this by saying that I’m not typically a big fan of contemporary short stories: I’m certainly not one to go in for many of the often formulaic and derivative New Yorker style pieces that seem to abound in just about every magazine and collection—often the very ones that get praised s...
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