![]() ![]() While Eva has mentioned that she’s loved it, she’s never reviewed it for her book blog but Eva has fantastic taste, so I trust her.Ī History of Reading was published on October 1, 1997. Rick at ricklibrarian loved it, pointing out that it’s not so much a history of reading as a history of readers, which sounds equally as fascinating. ![]() Today, we’re looking at nonfiction books about books-incidentally, they came to me via Erin of Erin Reads.Īs someone who keeps a commonplace book, I’m well aware that people have read differently throughout the ages-but I don’t know much beyond that, and Manguel’s A History of Reading sounds like the perfect thing to fix that when Erin mentioned it recently. But sometimes I just like to curl up with a book that recommends other books-that’s how this whole thing started in 2009, by the way. I love books about books I love and adore metafiction (by the way, why aren’t you reading The Unwritten?) and I always enjoy a good piece of literary criticism. ![]()
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