![]() ![]() “I can remember when I read any book, as the act of reading adheres to the room, the chair, the season.” (Guy Davenport) Here’s a sampling of the quotes that meant the most to me: The chapters are loosely thematic, with topics like lending and borrowing, organizing one’s library, bad book habits, and so on. The authors have chosen a huge variety of quotations from fiction and nonfiction, ranging from the Middle Ages to the present day. Last year John Sutherland and Stephen Fender’s Love, Sex, Death and Words filled that purpose. I like having a literary-themed book to read a bit of daily, rather like a secular devotional. The chapters are loosely thematic, with topics like lending and borrowing, organizing one’s library, bad book habits, This was my bedside book for the first half of the year. ![]() This was my bedside book for the first half of the year. Indeed, if you buy only one book this year, this one is probably not for you.more Celebrating the timeless pleasures of reading, casting an irreverent eye over the foibles and eccentricities of booklovers and revealing the reading habits of a host of famous writers, this compendium is a must for any bibliomane. The sources of the extracts range from Erasmus to Edith Wharton to Umberto Eco, from Dante to Descartes to Dickens, from Edward Gibbon to Kenneth Grahame to Groucho Marx. The witty, wise and evocative words cover every aspect of bookishness - including hoarding, buying, borrowing, arranging, stealing, choosing, losing, reviewing and displaying – and comprise memoirs, poetry, journalism, fiction and philosophy. The witty, wise and evocative words cover every aspect of bookishness - including hoarding, buying, borrowing, arranging, stealing, choosing, losing, revi The ideal gift for any book obsessive, A Book Addict's Treasury is an extensively researched anthology of more than 350 quotations and extracts from a wide selection of writers and thinkers – all on the subject of books. The ideal gift for any book obsessive, A Book Addict's Treasury is an extensively researched anthology of more than 350 quotations and extracts from a wide selection of writers and thinkers – all on the subject of books. ![]()
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