Where Books Fall Open: A Reader's Anthology of Wit & PassionThis is a book about books, about the pleasures, passions, and rewards of reading, about authors dedicated to writing and readers who delight in words in the right order. It contains a rich selection devoted to this seductive subject, from Calvino's meditation on selecting a title in a bookstore to Woolf's essays on the joys of "the common reader," from Schwartz's "Ruined by Reading" to Eco's "How to Organize a Public Library." The book is illuminated by sixteen full-color paintings by Bascove, who here serves as editor, illustrator, and primum mobile. Produced to the highest standards, it is not only a gift for the literary, but also an inducement to the diffident. |
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Page 62
... holding me " or " you , the large , heavy mass of protoplasm . " There's also a nice variety of words in this book , and that always makes it fun . We can hang around with the tough utilitarian words , like the , and have a few beers ...
... holding me " or " you , the large , heavy mass of protoplasm . " There's also a nice variety of words in this book , and that always makes it fun . We can hang around with the tough utilitarian words , like the , and have a few beers ...
Page 82
... holding the book close to her body , carrying it home on the cracked sidewalk , down the tangled hill . If a dog runs at her again , she will use the book as a shield . She looked hard among the long lines of books to find this one ...
... holding the book close to her body , carrying it home on the cracked sidewalk , down the tangled hill . If a dog runs at her again , she will use the book as a shield . She looked hard among the long lines of books to find this one ...
Page 106
... holding back the pages Or fingers waiting lightly at their edges . Her eyes are like the eyes of someone attending To a fragile work , familiar and demanding Some work of delicate surfaces or threads . Someone is reading the way a rare ...
... holding back the pages Or fingers waiting lightly at their edges . Her eyes are like the eyes of someone attending To a fragile work , familiar and demanding Some work of delicate surfaces or threads . Someone is reading the way a rare ...
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