Some Of My All-Time Favourite Reads
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Ex Libris by Ann Fadiman. When was the last time you
fell in love with the author of a book you were reading? Well, that
was what happened to me when I read Ann Fadiman's collection of
essays about books and reading. Ann has such a beautiful mind,
clever, witty, interesting, and she loves books. Who could resist
such themes as the pains and pleasures of Marrying Libraries? Or
the agony of being a bibliophile who is told off by a chambermaid
for mistreating a precious volume, 'Never do that to a book'? The
Joys of Sesquipedalians? Or the special pleasure that comes from
reading a book in the actual place that it describes: You are
There? |
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Little, Big by John Crowley. When Smokey Barnable sets
off from the City to walk to Edgewood, to marry the tall and
beautiful Daily Alice Drinkwater, he must fulfil certain strict
requirements. He must walk not ride, with a wedding-suit in his
pack old not new, and food made not bought, and he must spend the
night in a place that he must find or beg but not pay for. He can
hardly imagine, coming to Edgewood in this way, that he is coming
to a place he will never leave again. |