Book by Book: Notes on Reading and Life
10 best books like Book by Book: Notes on Reading and Life (Michael Dirda): Parnassus on Wheels, Sixpence House: Lost in a Town of Books, The Book on the Bookshelf, Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader, A Passion for Books: A Book Lover's Treasury of Stories, Essays, Humor, Love and Lists on Collecting, Reading, Borrowing, Lending, Caring for, and Appreciating Books, More Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason, How Reading Changed My Life, Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books, Rereadings: Seventeen Writers Revisit Books They Love, Slightly Chipped: Footnotes in Booklore
| Author | Christopher Morley |
| ISBN | 1414270658 |
This is a pilot for a new feel-good tv series:
Opening Credits:
It is a glorious morning on a deserted track somewhere in the rural Midwest. Rolling on the lane is a long gypsy-type wagon being pulled by a great big horse. On the open seat up front holding the reins is a cheery man of middle years...
Sixpence House: Lost in a Town of Books
Paul Collins and his family abandoned the hills of San Francisco to move to the Welsh countryside—to move, in fact, to the village of Hay-on-Wye, the "Town of Books" that boasts fifteen hundred inhabitants—and forty bookstores. Taking readers into a secluded sanctuary for book lovers, and guiding...
| Author | Henry Petroski |
| ISBN | 0375706399 |
"A fascinating history of two related common objects, impeccably documented and beautifully illustrated." —Civilization
Henry Petroski, "the poet laureate of technology" and author of the highly acclaimed The Pencil and The Evolution of Useful Things now sets his sights on perhaps...
Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
| Author | Anne Fadiman |
| ISBN | 0374527229 |
Anne Fadiman is—by her own admission—the sort of person who learned about sex from her father's copy of Fanny Hill, whose husband buys her 19 pounds of dusty books for her birthday, and who once found herself poring over her roommate's 1974 Toyota Corolla manual because it was the only written material...
A Passion for Books: A Book Lover's Treasury of Stories, Essays, Humor, Love and Lists on Collecting, Reading, Borrowing, Lending, Caring for, and Appreciating Books
| Author | Harold Rabinowitz |
| ISBN | 0812931130 |
"When I have a little money, I buy books. And if any is left, I buy food and clothing." — --Desiderius Erasmus — Those who share Erasmus's love of those curious bundles of paper bound together between hard or soft covers know exactly how he felt. These are the people who can spend hours browsing through...
| Author | Nancy Pearl |
| ISBN | 1570614350 |
The response to Nancy Pearl's surprise bestseller Book Lust was astounding: the Seattle librarian and winner of the 2004 Women's National Book Award even became the model for the now-famous Librarian Action Figure. Readers everywhere welcomed Pearl's encyclopedic but discerning filter on books...
How Reading Changed My Life
| Author | Anna Quindlen |
| ISBN | 0345422783 |
A recurring theme throughout Anna Quindlen's How Reading Changed My Life is the comforting premise that readers are never alone. "There was waking, and there was sleeping. And then there were books," she writes, "a kind of parallel universe in which anything might happen and frequently did, a universe...
Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books
| Author | Maureen Corrigan |
| ISBN | 0375709037 |
“It’s not that I don’t like people,” writes Maureen Corrigan in her introduction to Leave Me Alone, I’m Reading. “It’s just that there always comes a moment when I’m in the company of others—even my nearest and dearest—when I’d rather be reading a book.” In this delightful...
Rereadings: Seventeen Writers Revisit Books They Love
| Author | Anne Fadiman |
| ISBN | 0374530548 |
Is a book the same book—or a reader the same reader—the second time around? The seventeen authors in this witty and poignant collection of essays all agree on the answer: Never.
The editor of Rereadings is Anne Fadiman, and readers of her bestselling book Ex Libris will find this volume...
Slightly Chipped: Footnotes in Booklore
| Author | Lawrence Goldstone |
| ISBN | 0312263953 |
More than a sequel, Slightly Chipped: Footnotes in Booklore is a companion piece for Used and Rare. A delight for the general reader and book collector alike, it details the Goldstones' further explorations into the curious world of book collecting. In Slightly Chipped, they get hooked on the correspondence...
| Author | Stuart Kelly |
| ISBN | 1400062977 |
In an age when deleted scenes from Adam Sandler movies are saved, it’s sobering to realize that some of the world’s greatest prose and poetry has gone missing. This witty, wry, and unique new book rectifies that wrong. Part detective story, part history lesson, part exposé, The Book of Lost Books...
Ruined By Reading: A Life in Books
| Author | Lynne Sharon Schwartz |
| ISBN | 0807070831 |
(2.5) This 1996 memoir was sparked by reading a quote from a Chinese Buddhist in a New York Times article: he suggested that reading is dangerous as it imposes others’ ideas on you and doesn’t allow you to use your own mind freely. Schwartz, of course, begs to differ. As a novelist, reading has been...
| Author | Robert Darnton |
| ISBN | 1586488260 |
The invention of writing was one of the most important technological, cultural, and sociological breakthroughs in human history. With the printed book, information and ideas could disseminate more widely and effectively than ever before—and in some cases, affect and redirect the sway of history....
So Many Books: Reading and Publishing in an Age of Abundance
"Gabriel Zaid's defense of books is genuinely exhilarating. It is not pious, it is wise; and its wisdom is delivered with extraordinary lucidity and charm. This is how Montaigne would have written about the dizzy and increasingly dolorous age of the Internet. May So Many Books fall into so many...
The Little Guide to Your Well-Read Life: How to Get More Books in Your Life and More Life from Your Books
| Author | Steve Leveen |
| ISBN | 1929154178 |
"Perfect for all of us who can never get enough time with good books. It not only urges us to indulge deeply and often, it shows us how."-Myra Hart, professor, Harvard Business School "Readers and want-to-be readers will be encouraged by the advice to read more, more widely and more systematically."-Michael...
