Browsings: A Year of Reading, Collecting, and Living With Books; Library Edition

from lycomayflower

A collection of a year's worth of columns about book life that Dirda wrote for The American Scholar website. Such things are always best when they feature things the reader is also interested in or recommendations the reader finds pleasing. Dirda hit the latter for me a lot here, and I wrote down...

from JeffV

Michael Dirda is a former reviewer for The American Scholar and other publications. This is a collection of essays covering travel, conventions, various special interest groups, and book collecting. I chose this book to read after learning of the death of an influential high school literature tea...

from SamSattler

I first encountered Michael Dirda about twenty-five years ago in the guise of a little 67-page guide he penned for The Book of the Month Club (when I actually believed BOMC books to be collectable) titled Caring for Your Books. The book answered so many of my questions about the proper handling o...

from LivelyLady

The author is praised as "the best read person" in America and I believe this book proves it. This is a random selections of essays on books, literature, and the life of a bibliophile. I am not in the category of "the best read person in America" therefore my rating. I loved his ramblings about u...

from DavidWineberg

It is risky to review a reviewer. Michael Dirda reviews books, about one a week, for various prestigious media. I review two books a week here. He dwells on stories; he can't get enough sci-fi, mysteries and period (1870-1930) fiction. I review nonfiction. I started writing reviews because I coul...