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adorará Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se gostará deste livro. Picked up because someone recommended the first essay, Marrying Libraries, and it was adorable and amusing. 18 total essays on books and reading and words. Fadiman is much more intellectual than I, so some essays were more difficult to relate to than others, although all were well-written. I'm not a fan of big words for their own sake and have never considered writing sonnets, but I could relate to compulsive proof-reading and a love of mail order catalogs. Her enthusiasm for books as objects, for the way they furnish a home as well as a mind, is appreciated. It's a nice warm fuzzy mug of cocoa of a book. ( )What an amazing little book! I picked this up in the airport on the way to Chicago and finished the next day on another flight to LA... I cannot pass up a bookstore, it is physically impossible for me; and I certainly cannot pass up a book about books!I had intended to read the essays in this volume one at a time, one per day over the course of my next trip as I am with several other collections but this little thing could not be put down.Ms. Fadiman's obvious love and lust for the written word and its physical manifestation, the book, is deep and absorbing. I will read and re-read this often... Ik lees graag boeken over boeken. Of over lezers. Of over verzamelaars. Zoals een hond graag een andere hond besnuffelt. De grootte of lengte van de staart is van geen belang. Dat we honden zijn, hetzelfde gedrag vertonen wanneer we een boom op ons pad vinden, dat is wat telt en ons van katten onderscheidt. De columns (je kan het geen 'essays' noemen) van Anne Fadiman tonen niettemin een ander soort lezer, een ander soort verzamelaar dan ik ben. Boeken worden, met de rug naar boven, opengevouwen op de leestafel gelegd. Aantekeningen worden gekoesterd, hoe meer hoe liever. Beduimelde dustjackets verrijken het boek door hun geschiedenis, eerder dan dat ze het boek onteren. Hetzelfde geldt voor platgeslagen insekten, vettige duimafdrukken, uitgescheurde pagina's ... Boeken worden luidop voorgedragen. (Fadiman en haar man - tevens schrijver - lezen elkaar voor het slapen Homerus voor.) Of ze worden gebruikt als bouwstenen voor het kasteel van de kinderen. Boeken moeten volgens Fadiman (en vele anderen) bij voorkeur gelezen worden in het land, de stad, de straat, het huis waar ze over handelen. Een onopengesneden boek vult haar met weemoed omdat zij de eerste zal zijn die het, lang geleden reeds gepubliceerde, werk lezen zal. (Niet met een gevoel van goddelijkheid, onkwetsbaarheid, uitverkorenheid ...) Het zijn deze kleine weetjes - weetjes over haar, over haar man, haar ouders en haar (stuk voor stuk geleerde) vrienden - die ze aaneenrijgt met nogal lukrake anekdotes uit de algemene boekgeschiedenis. (Niet dat dat laatste stoort, het is eerder het eerste dat wel eens stoort.) Sommige teksten konden me boeien (over het plagiaat, 'the odd shelf' (de mijne is 1 plank groot en gaat veelal over psycho-analyse), Carrington, de verjaardagstrip naar de boekhandel), maar als geheel woog dit kleine boekje toch wat te licht. Het is sympathiek, dat wel, maar dat is een liefdesverklaring aan boeken natuurlijk altijd ... http://occamsrazorlibrary.blogspot.co... Great little volume of essays and meandering thoughts about bibliophilia, from obsession with punctuation to merging libraries with a lover to the odd shelf everyone has in their library. Lovely little snippets that you can read in five minutes to make you smile. I adored this book and everything about Fadiman's family. It is 157 pages made up of essays about her love of books and how they interact with her life and relationships. I found myself staring at my shelves, wondering if I should reorganize. One of my favorite essays in the collection was Marrying Libraries, about Fadiman and her husband combining their books after 5 years of marriage and the difficulties when it comes to multiple copies and organization. M and I are both big readers but have only lived together for a year and a half and haven't combined libraries - plus we're not married, so if we ever break up, I don't want to have to go through it. On top of that he reads predominantly history and the occasional zombie book, where I am a fiction reader, so we don't have any doubles. If you love books, you should most definitely read this, I am currently looking for the books in the 'Recommended Reading' section of this one. sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
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Over the course of 18 charming essays Fadiman ranges from the "odd shelf" ("a small, mysterious corpus of volumes whose subject matter is completely unrelated to the rest of the library, yet which, upon closer inspection reveals a good deal about its owner") to plagiarism ("the more I've read about plagiarism, the more I've come to think that literature is one big recycling bin") to the pleasures of reading aloud ("When you read silently, only the writer performs. When you read aloud, the performance is collaborative"). Fadiman delivers these essays with the expectation that her readers will love and appreciate good books and the power of language as much as she does. Indeed, reading Ex Libris is likely to bring up warm memories of old favorites and a powerful urge to revisit one's own "odd shelf" pronto. --Alix Wilber
(retirado da Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:57:55 -0400)
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