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I have 86 books on my "books-about-books" shelfYou can see My Shelf HERE
Standouts would be
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
Under the Mesquite
Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
The Book of Lost Things
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You can see My Shelf HERE
Standouts would be
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
Under the Mesquite
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I will have to go through my books but I did like Mr. Penumbra's 24 Hour Bookstore.
A Reader's Manifesto
by B. R. Meyers is fun and a little cathartic for anyone who's had to sit through a seminar on Derrida.
For the more academically inclined, I know McLuhan's Gutenberg Galaxy is the usual go-to but I'm much more a fan of Elizabth Eisenstein's The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe for how it tracks the correlation between early early republicanism and Protestantism alongside rising literacy and book circulation.
For the more academically inclined, I know McLuhan's Gutenberg Galaxy is the usual go-to but I'm much more a fan of Elizabth Eisenstein's The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe for how it tracks the correlation between early early republicanism and Protestantism alongside rising literacy and book circulation.
The one I'm reading now -- Rat Scabies and the Holy Grail: Can a Punk Rock Legend Find What Monty Python Couldn't? -- turns out to be very much a book about books. This bizarre quest was seeded in the mind of punk rocker Rat Scabies because his dad was a rare book dealer who amassed a library on the Grail quest which Ratty grew up reading. And a major contact of Rat's was a legendary book scout, Martin Stone -- who was also the guitarist for bands like the Pink Fairies -- who took them on a bit of a side quest, not for the Grail, but for breathtakingly rare books about it.
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This is certainly one of the most original or unique book title that I have ever heard of.
Currently reading two books about booksMidnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore
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300 Days of Sun (a novel within a novel)
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Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore
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300 Days of Sun (a novel within a novel)"
I got Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore on my reading list.
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I read that - I thought it was very interesting.
That's on my TBR list. Apparently the special effort to get books to GIs in the world wars converted us to a nation of readers. For a while.
Dear Fahrenheit 451: Love and Heartbreak in the Stacks by Annie Spence
Just downloaded this from the library so I dont know much about it yet, but it is suppose to be funny.
Dear Fahrenheit 451: Love and Heartbreak in the Stacks by Annie Spence
Have you ever finished a book and felt like you are leaving an old friend? If you are truly a book lover you have done this many times, I'm sure. The author takes this a step further by writing letters to books. As a librarian she has had to discard many books and has also purged her own shelves and fantasizes about purging others. In this book she writes letters to those books. Sounds strange? Well, it is a little, but also hilarious! Witty, sassy, and a little irreverent (read that as a liberal sprinkling of the F word) and you will be smiling and nodding your head through a big portion of this book.
The King in Yellow is a sort of frame story, containing several other stories of the disasters that befell anyone who's read The King in Yellow...
Reading one now, Looking for Carroll Beckwith: The True Stories of a Detective's Search for His Past, that is proving to be a book about books. What I thought would be a plain old police investigation is proving to be a laser-focused hunt through one library after another. I just closed the book for the night as the detective's ILL microfiche came in and he realized that he had a 2-week limit on reading a handwritten diary kept daily from the day it started, when the author was 19, until he died at 65. Gulp!
Koren wrote: "Dear Fahrenheit 451: Love and Heartbreak in the Stacks by Annie Spence
Have you ever finished a book an..."
my f2f book club just finished discussing Fahrenheit 451. Maybe we should read this next.
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have you read other books by this author?"
I read her book on Rin Tin Tin and loved it!
Just spotted 2 new ones:A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
The Book Collectors: A Band of Syrian Rebels and the Stories That Carried Them Through a War
And I forgot to mention Murder in the Synagogue, the psychological autopsy of a philosophy student that traces his mental decline through the books he reads and his understanding of them, until Presidents' Day when he does something that can never be taken back.
Just stumbled across one I need to read: The Madman's Library: The Strangest Books, Manuscripts and Other Literary Curiosities from History, full of anecdotes about books guaranteed to raise demons, or bound in human skin, and other craziness.
Here's a list of new ones that turned up in my weekly newsmagazine:The Latinist
Bibliolepsy: a novel
Essays Two: On Proust, Translation, Foreign Languages, and the City of Arles
Around the World in 80 Books
Just came across a promising title: The Possessed: Adventures With Russian Books and the People Who Read Them by Elif Batuman.
Article about the history of crime fiction revolving around books:https://crimereads.com/a-deep-dive-in...
Just came across these:The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary
The Posthumous Papers of the Manuscripts Club
But I'm here for the libraries, not the stores! :grin:
Cheryl wrote: "But I'm here for the libraries, not the stores! :grin:"Well you're still allowed to read about them!
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What books have you enjoyed that are about books? Looking for suggestions.