by Jacques Bonnet
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's a very fine line between bibliophilia and book hoarding and at time it's difficult to tell which side of the line the people described in this book fall. Ultimately, the book is an ode to a dying age of literature where the print novel reigned supreme, a time before the digital revolution. A...
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.
Jacques Bonnet is a French art historian with a collection of over 40,000 books. In this brief book he discusses the unique challenges that possessing so many books creates and the passions that drive a serious bibliophile. My own modest collection of 6,000 pales in comparison, but it is refreshin...
A delightful memoir of book collecting and reading by a bibliomaniac.
I received this book from and reviewed it for New Book Magazine.This is a book about books, written by a man in the middle of a life-long love affair with books, who has accumulated approximately 40.000 copies in his house.This is a book about having such a personal library, acquiring the books and ...
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