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Title: Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader by Anne Fadiman ISBN: 0-374-52722-9 Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux Pub. Date: 01 October, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.73 (70 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Fun, Entertaining Book on Books & Language
Comment: Anne Fadiman's 'Ex Libris' kept me entertained with these light-hearted, hilarious essays about books. Ok, so she confesses of eing a bit obsessed with her passion. Her life long love affair with books and language has become chapters in her own life story. Fadiman admits she learned about [love] from her father's copy of 'Fanny Hill.' And at one time found herself reading a 1974 Toyota Corolla manual because it was the only thing in her apartment she hadn't read.
Fadiman recounts a book lover's odyssey in her well-tuned personal essays. Finding her ("True Womanhood") in favorite anecdotes from Father Bernard O'Reilly. not seeing eye-to-eye, but thankful for him that she got to know her great-grandmother. In ("Marrying Libraries"), she didn't feel completely married without merging her and her husband's collection. Her well-worded apology on plagiarism ("Nothing New Under the Sun") is witty and raw. Her first introduction to books at the age of four, when she liked building castles ("My Ancestral Castles") with her father's pocket-sized twenty-two volume set of midnight blue 'Trollope.' Fadiman's addiction to long words ("The Joy of Sesquipedalians") would beat me in a game of scrabble. Just sitting at the breakfast table of the Fadiman's would bring new intellect to one's vocabulary. Thanks you, Carl Van Vechten! Would you know the meaning of monophysite, ithyphallic, aspergill or opopanax?
Fadiman's happiness is a round-trip ticket to any used bookshop namely New York's finest ("Secondhand Prose") ponders the words of Henry Ward Beecher, "Where human nature so weak as in the bookstore!" The temptations of books kept her in good company with Southey and Macaulay. There are family members and friends who have brought me books on many occasions and I can relate to Anne Fadiman. I enjoyed this very much. It taught me to be wise, be a good speller, tackle big words and love books alot more.
Rating: 5
Summary: Do We Own Books, or Do They Own Us?
Comment: Why do we keep books on a shelf? According to one of the essays in Anne Fadiman's gem of a book, Ex Libris, it's because they provide a concrete picture of who we are and how we developed. This message really hits home for those of us who have tried to find an out-of-print book that captures a particular time in our past. Fadiman understands this obsession. I originally borrowed Ex Libris from the library, and then found myself climbing up a ladder in a used bookstore to add this must-have volume to my own bookshelves. This is a book whose content I have shared with bibliophiles and nonbibliophiles alike. My husband and I both reacted in horror to Fadiman's story of her distress while combining libraries with her spouse...a merger that we both agree will never occur in our own home. My co-workers laughed and nodded at the description of proofreaders being compared to the person sweeping up elephant dung after a parade. And, another person in my life couldn't understand my excitement of reminiscing about and keeping books read years ago, which she termed "clutter." Fadiman beautifully captures and describes all these and more peculiarities of book lovers.
Rating: 5
Summary: Superb! What a gem.
Comment: Beautifully written, warm, and generous. A book lovers delight! Ms. Fadiman does a wonderful job of bringing to life each individual portrayed in her essays. A very engaging, often humorous, and lively read.
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Title: The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman ISBN: 0374525641 Publisher: Noonday Press Pub. Date: 28 September, 1998 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Ruined by Reading: A Life in Books by Lynne Sharon Schwartz ISBN: 0807070831 Publisher: Beacon Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 1997 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
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Title: How Reading Changed My Life (Library of Contemporary Thought) by Anna Quindlen ISBN: 0345422783 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 1998 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
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Title: A Passion for Books : A Book Lover's Treasury of Stories, Essays, Humor, Love and Lists on Collecting, Reading, Borrowing, Lending, Caring for, and Appreciating Books by Harold Rabinowitz, Rob Kaplan ISBN: 0812931130 Publisher: Three Rivers Press (CA) Pub. Date: 23 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Biblioholism: The Literary Addiction by Tom Raabe ISBN: 1555912400 Publisher: Fulcrum Publishing Pub. Date: 01 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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