The Shelf: From Leq to Les: Adventures in Extreme Reading : From Leq to Les: Adventures in Extreme Reading (Hardcover)

from rglossne

Phyllis Rose picked a shelf in the New York Society Library, a private library to which she belongs, and spent a year reading its contents. The shelf was fiction , LEQ-LES. Her essays and observations about this make wonderful reading. Her observation that it's a good idea to read things you don'...

from rglossne

Phyllis Rose picked a shelf in the New York Society Library, a private library to which she belongs, and spent a year reading its contents. The shelf was fiction , LEQ-LES. Her essays and observations about this make wonderful reading. Her observation that it's a good idea to read things you don'...

from Beamis12

I think picking and reading a whole shelf of library books, would make a wonderful challenge, one I may adopt somewhere down the line. Of course picking the shelf is not as easy as it appears, because many shelves are full of a popular authors book, so it does take a bit of work to find just the ...

from ParadisePorch

Rose chose a shelf of (ironically) fiction books in her library and read each of them, reporting on her progress, the history behind the books, and other literary tidbits. Quite enjoyable.

from SigmundFraud

I love books and I love books about books and that is why I liked THE SHELF ADVENTURES IN EXTREME READING by Phyllis Rose. Rose took on a project to read all the books on one shelf at The New York Society Library, a private library that I have belonged to from time to time. It is a great place an...