Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader, (Paperback)

from kambrogi

A fantastic book! Especially for a book lover, it is a marvelous find. I read one little essay a day until they were all gone, then turned the tiny book over and over in my hands, like an empty cho...

from phebj

I absolutely loved this book and it's one of my favorite reads this year. Fadiman originally wrote these essays for Civilization, the magazine of the Library of Congress. They chronicle her family'...

from WholeHouseLibrary

I don't recall exactly when this book found me. I recall being married at the time; my 2nd wife and I were at a "Big Box" bookstore very late in the evening, and we had already been married a few y...

from ntempest

I loved this. Adored it. It's been a long time since I finished a book and wanted to start all over again. I even read the acknowledgments to make it last longer. And when was the last time anyone ...

from jnwelch

"It has long been my belief that everyone's library contains an Odd Shelf. On this shelf rests a small, mysterious corpus of volumes whose subject matter is completely unrelated to the rest of the ...