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Title: Bookworms: Great Writers and Readers Celebrate Reading by Laura Furman, Elinore Standard ISBN: 0-7867-0395-4 Publisher: Carroll & Graf Publishers Pub. Date: 01 November, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Essays for book addicts
Comment: Here's a special selection for those of you who live to
read. In 'Bookworms,' edited by Laura Furman and Elinore
Standard, you will find a variety of essays and quotes on your
favorite subject.
The first section was for me the most interesting. Entitled 'The
Young Reader,' it contained explanations by a variety of folks on
how they first learned to read. If you enjoy keeping a list of
the books you have read or if you have ever tried to master one
of the '100 books you absolutely have to read' lists, you will
enjoy Richard Rodriguez's experiences. The more he read, the more
he discovered he needed to read next. 'At the library,' he
remembers, 'I would literally trembled as I came upon whole
shelves of books I hadn't read. So I read and I read and I read.
. . .'
Or perhaps you remember those first exciting moments when you
discovered a certain author, especially one who had a whole
series of books. In this case, you will identify with Hal Borland
who first came across real books while visiting a neighbor on the
prairies of Colorado. When she loaned him a copy of Cooper's 'The
Last of the Mohicans,' he had walked halfway home before he came
up for air. 'I had just discovered a world of horizons beyond
horizons,' he remembers, 'a world I couldn't see even from the
top of the hay stack on a clear day. I had found something that
would shape my whole life. As I trudged on, I began to sense my
discovery, a discovery even bigger than the plains.'
The next section, entitled 'Sorts of Readers.' You will probably
concur with Joseph Epstein when he says, 'having too much to read
isn't a problem; having to little to read has been on occasion.
In paucity, never prolificacy, lies fear.'
Do you find that men and women like different kinds of books?
Tamar Lewin speaks of 'boy books' and 'girl books,' Men like
anything where the point is the ideas, the landscape, or the
action; girl books are 'about relationships, families, and the
details of daily life.' Thus the war between the sexes is really
the battle between 'Moby Dick' and 'Little Women.'
Other sections in this fascinating collection are 'Reading
Aloud,' 'Reading Ahead' (which contains a timely essay on the
impact of computers on the world of books), 'Queen Lear'
(dealing with the way we use books to understand ourselves) and
'The Privileges Pleasure' Finally there is a bibliography for
those of you who want even more.
If you are a book addict, you will enjoy these essays.
Rating: 5
Summary: Little Sleeper
Comment: The perfect gift for the real reader! An anthology which includes words from your fellow readers through the centuries. This is a book you can dip into. Keep it by the bed. Read a little here, a little there. Enjoy what other reading addicts have to tell you about the place of reading in their own lives. See how reading continues to change a life, continues to provide openings, escape, a way up and a way out.
Rating: 2
Summary: Disappointing and forgettable
Comment: As a self-confessed bibliophile, I hoped the contributions to this book would evoke and reflect the peculiar state of mind that booklovers get during the reading experience--something on the order of Tom Raabe's "Biblioholism," or "Reading in Bed." However, I found this book to be quite a disappointment. The entries are, as a group, unremarkable and fail to engage the emotions (at least for me). Just a very few of the passages were interesting or evocative enough to flag for future reflection. I did not keep this book, unlike others on the subject of bibliomania.
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Title: READING ROOMS : READING ROOMS by Susan Allen Toth, John Coughlan ISBN: 0671747649 Publisher: Washington Square Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 1992 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: A History of Reading by Alberto Manguel ISBN: 0140166548 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 1997 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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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: For the Love of Books: 115 Celebrated Writers on the Books They Love Most by Ronald B. Shwartz ISBN: 0425172945 Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group Pub. Date: 01 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Ex Libris : Confessions of a Common Reader by Anne Fadiman ISBN: 0374527229 Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Pub. Date: 25 November, 2000 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
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