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It is no secret that I love Alberto Manguel. As I have posted numerous times, Manguel is one of my fave literary critics. He might very well be my fave living literary critic. Tonight I stumbled upon a 4 part documentary, featuring Manguel, entitled Empire of the Word. Luckily a YT channel has uploaded the documentary in the entirety:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTyTmo8IUYY

This is incredible! Apparently these are still around in certain places ?? Although not quite the same I have always remembered the Penguin Spinner Rack I saw at Left Bank Books several years ago. The info at the bottom about “ingenious people“ getting quite a few books for their sixpence cracked me up. Knaveproof. Ha!

I am posting one book per day from my extensive to-be-read collection. No description and providing no reason for wanting to read it, I just do. Some will be old, some will be new. Don‘t judge me - I have a lot of books. Join the fun if you want.
This is day 254 #bookstoread #tbrpile #bookstagram

Truer words were never spoken

"...one doesn't simply read Crime and Punishment or A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. One reads a certain edition, a specific copy, recognizable by the roughness or smoothness of its paper, by its scent, by a slight tear on page 72 and a coffee ring on the right-hand corner of the back cover."

"I know that on a page somewhere on my shelves...is the question I'm struggling with today, put into words long ago, perhaps, by someone who could not have known of my existence"

❤

My newest acquisition. I adore Manguel‘s prose. #albertomanguel

#quotsyaug19 @TK-421
#Catalog

Thanks for the tag @MicheleinPhilly ! Here are my #Top6Reads of the year so far. Here's hoping the rest of 2019 holds plenty more. I tag @youneverarrived @BarbaraBB @Leftcoastzen

Manguel's informative & lively book is filled with paintings & illustrations, including a pull out entitled The Reader's Timeline. Penguin well earned a place as one of the definitive moments in the history of reading. Pioneering affordable & portable editions of quality literature, they made it so the common reader would #neverever have to leave the house without a good book.
#AnglophileApril
@Mdargusch @Reviewsbylola @emilyhaldi @Cinfhen

#QuotsyFeb19 #alien

Day 20: #alien

#quotsyfeb19
@TK-421

...And we're off!
Starting by rereading this delightful book.
#24in48

I'm a day late posting, due to misplacing my phone charger yesterday. As any Litten knows who has been following me, I love Alberto Manguel. I've posted several times about A Dictionary of Imaginary Places & The Library at Night. The tagged book is separated by themes (The Shape of the Book, The Author as Reader, Stealing Books etc). Manguel ranges through history of the written word & humanity's evolution of reading into what we know today. 👇

Thanks for this #LitsyLove19 giveaway, @LazyDays and the great question! It's been fun reading the responses.

I was lucky to have parents who read to me, and always found time for trips to the library & bookstores. Reading was my door to different worlds. It became my portal to entertainment, enlightenment, and escape. My tastes have changed over the years, but I still turn to books for these things. 📚❤

This book is brilliant and every reader should read it.

#nonfiction

I'm so enjoying my current Litsy Reading Challenge that I've made one of my own. This one is intended to extend my reading in all ways uncomfortable. While I thought I read widely, I have since dicovered that I actually don't!

#litsy #litsyreadingchallenge #readwidely #readwildly #reading #books

https://thebookkeepersite.wordpress.com/2018/05/15/reading/

Sadly a lot of my books aren't aging well due to becoming damp once upon a time then being on a bookcase in direct sunlight. This one is over 20 years old & showing it. Yellowing edges and a slight musty odour 🤤

Excellent book though. Highly recommended and due a reread!

What every book hoarder needs: a caravan of camels trained to walk in alphabetical order. 🐪🐪🐪

#BeYourself #JuneTunz Two of my biggest passions in life are history and reading. This book combines both.

#day3 of #riotgram #riotgrams is How I Read. The right answer would be "fast" because I don't have a lot of time.
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I read on three devices: my cheapo tablet for Kindle books, my beloved Kobo for almost everything else, and my phone (taking the pic) for fanfiction. I do read physical books on my occasion, but I use a book stand.

In today's reading class we had some monkish reading experiences, with readings from the Manguel. Did you know that silent reading wasn't really a thing until the 10th century?

#aprilbookshowers day 24: #shelfie
One of our projects last year was setting up our library! This loft area was first used as a TV room, a nursery for my second kid, a playroom but now with this comfy chair and a sofa on the other end, it is our very own library! Every evening after bathtime the kids head here for storytime. (They have a small shelf of books along the corridor as well as some squares here)

It's hard to imagine this book being dedicated to anyone else, but it still moves me.

“The Book Fool” 1494. #selfportrait 😂

#ThankfulFor
I am thankful for books and everything related to them (bookstores, libraries, book sites, publishers, book paraphernalia & of course communities like Litsy). I have been a lifetime book lover & it has given my life meaning.

He's not lonely...

I'm enjoying my assigned reading! I am not, however, enjoying NJ's recent 80°F temps. I want cozy autumn reading!

At one magical instant in your early childhood, the page of a book- that string of confused, alien ciphers- shivered into meaning. Words spoke to you, gave up their secrets; at that moment, whole universes opened. You became, irrevocably, a reader.

It's only roughly two more months till the Gilmore Girls are back! I can hardly wait. Who else was in love with this show? I was always like 'I want to know someone like Rory. She would so get me.' 😉 And...tataaaa... here we all are on Litsy. 😁