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It is indeed a marvelous book, If you love reading in any language, this book is especially recommended for you. I concur with most of the comments from previous customer reviews. As for the product in itself, it was just as decribed, in mint condition. I ordered the product from Spain but unfortunately, the sub-contrated Spanish carrier company SEUR, in charge of delivering the product to my address in Madrid, is notorious in my country for being extremely unreliable. The delivery process turned out to be a nightmare for me. Sorry but I had to mention this as a warning for potential Spanish customers.


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Ex Libris Confessions of a Common Reader Anne Fadiman 9780374527228 Books Reviews

I love this book! A friend recommended it to me, and since she and I share titles we have especially enjoyed and I have learned to respect her opinions, I bought it. Since then I have bought it for several of my friends who love to read great books and are passionate about the books they love. A friend to whom I gave the book loved it but said I probably loved it more because she tends to read current titles while I read more classic books with some current books, but regardless of your reading preferences, certainly some of Anne Fadiman's essays will resonate with you. I loved all of them! If you somehow missed my point, I love this book.
I am a product of the remnants of the Macaulayrian education system that was zealously enforced in colonial and post colonial India. I had to learn the English language as a teenager by painstakingly rote learning the rules of grammar from Nesfield's Text Book of Grammar from my vernacular high school teacher. Still I enjoy reading books in English and miss the British humor of the essayists like William Hazlitt or Bertrand Russell from my yesteryears. Ann Fadiman came as a fresh breath of English prose with recommendation from the Economist Book Review. I plan on giving it as a gift to anyone who shares my bibliophilia, starting with my sibling. I relished most the essay on the the gastronomic urges we all feel whenever we read the descriptions of food in books. It also reminded me of the cartoon character Garfield hungrily swallowing pages of lasagna from a cook book. I felt some of the readers comments were less than generous as they were a trifle jealous of Ms.Fadiman flaunting her enviable legacy. Sour grapes syndrome !
This book was a gift. I hope the recipient enjoyed it as much as I did when I read it years ago
(it had been given to me by a school friend and fellow avid reader).
Anne Fadiman writes about her own family's experiences with books
(starting with her brother being chastised by a Danish chambermaid after he left a book face down to mark the place --
'You must never do that to a book!'-- and her difficulties merging her own library with her husband's). Very entertaining.
Quite a booklover and word lover, is this wonderful author. This book is great fun to read at one's leisure, chapter by chapter, or all the way through. Any booklover should enjoy this crowdpleaser.
This was was suggested by the website for reading addicts and it is wonderful to read a readers joy of reading. She puts to words how much reading is so wonderful for her and her husband. It also shows what book lovers face with their love of book, desire to own them, and their not wanting to lose them. It was a joy to read her love of reading and books.
What a marvelous book!
When Anne Fadiman started to describe the merger of her library with her husband's (never mind that they had been married for years and had children together, this was the event that convinced her they were *really* married), I knew I had stumbled on a kindred soul. Anne Fadiman can write, and she chooses to write about what it means to live a life surrounded by (and wallowing in, let's admit it!) books.
Her love affair with the written word permeates this book. The details of her life are completely different than mine, but this book made me feel like I understood her from the inside out. I read large parts of this book out loud, to anyone I could find who seemed like they might find it amusing. Most of them ran out and got themselves a copy of the book. I can't read it out loud to you, so all I can say is if you love reading, if you are consumed with a love of the written word, Anne Fadiman's book will speak to the deepest part of your soul.
This is an enchanting book of essays compiled from articles originally published in Civilization, the magazine of the Library of Congress. The subjects alone are enough to bring a smile to any "common reader", a phrase used by Virginia Woolf (and borrowed from Samuel Johnson) to connote an educated layperson who reads for pleasure rather than scholarship or criticism. Ms. Fadiman turns a lovely phrase, and the reader will often feel they've found a kindred spirit. Topics include the intimacy of combining libraries, the enjoyment of long words, that odd shelf in your library, the carnal versus the courtly love of books, inscriptions, reading literature about a place while you are there, used books, proofreading, plagiarism, catalogues and reading aloud. While reading about these delightful subjects you will also learn about the author and her family, Arctic exploration, Thomas Macaulay and a host of other indispensable bits. The book succeeds on all fronts.
It was a pleasure to read a book that made me break out the dictionary, and a dangerous little section at the back recommends yet more books that you probably don't need but that will undoubtedly make your life sweeter, as this one does. It can be read quickly, but you'd be wiser to savor it.
Highest recommendation.
It is indeed a marvelous book, If you love reading in any language, this book is especially recommended for you. I concur with most of the comments from previous customer reviews. As for the product in itself, it was just as decribed, in mint condition. I ordered the product from Spain but unfortunately, the sub-contrated Spanish carrier company SEUR, in charge of delivering the product to my address in Madrid, is notorious in my country for being extremely unreliable. The delivery process turned out to be a nightmare for me. Sorry but I had to mention this as a warning for potential Spanish customers.