The House of Paper | 
This is choc full of bookish quotes and whimsical drawings.
It is often much harder to get rid of books then it is to acquire them.
Every year I give away fifty of them to my students, yet I still cannot avoid putting in another double row of shelves; the books are advancing innocently through my house. There is no way I can stop them.
I found this little gem at our newly renovated library today, it goes very well with a bottle of Bordeaux I purchased at the local liquor store, that could do with a renovation itself. So far I‘m intrigued by book and vintage!
“To build up a library is to create a life. It's never just a random collection of books.â€
#QuotsySept19 | 16: #Collect
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pickLove ?! This little novella imagines a scenario where bibliomania is carried too far. But lots we can relate to, also.
Sís ‘s illustrations throughout are more symbolic rather than literal descriptions of the text.
I believe this is the only English translation of Carlos María Domínguez‘s works (he‘s an Argentine native living in Uruguay).
This is apparently out of print ?, but worth hunting down an used copy which is still affordable.
"Books change people's destinies. Some have read The Tiger of Malaysia and become professors of literature in remote universities. Demian converted tens of thousands of young men to Eastern philosophy, Hemingway made sportsmen of them, Alexander Dumas complicated the lives of thousands of women, quite a few of whom were saved from suicide by cookbooks."
Love the Peter Sís illustrations throughout this little gem â¤ï¸
The third item from my ThriftBooks order arrived today!
I wanted to read this ever since mention in a book about books (tagged ?). This little novella is “....a tribute to the strange and passionate relationship between people and their books†(inside flap).
Illustrated by Peter Sís.
"To build up a library is to create a life. It's never just a random collection of books."
The House of Paper, Carlos Maria Dominguez
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#TBRtemptation “Bluma Lennon, distinguished professor of Latin American literature at Cambridge, is hit by a car while crossing the street, immersed in a volume of Emily Dickinson. Several months after, a package arrives for her from Argentina-a copy of a Conrad novel, encrusted in cement and inscribed with a mysterious dedication. Bluma's successor in the department travels to Buenos Aires to track down the sender, who seems to have disappeared..
pickAn unusual #quickread, this novella is about a London based professor traveling to Uruguay in search of the story of a book sent to a departed colleague, but this book is really a lovely mediation on the love of reading and the nature of book ownership. Very quotable. With a Uruguayan author and setting, great option for #Uruguay if anyone is doing a #readingtheworld challenge!
This book is packed with quotable lines about the love of books and reading.
"Nobody wants to mislay a book. We prefer to lose a ring, a watch, our umbrella, rather than a book whose pages we will never read again, but which retains, just in the sound of its title, a remote and perhaps long-lost emotion." (Illustration by Peter Sis)
"Books change people's destinies. Some have read The Tiger of Malaysia and become professors of literature in remote universities. Demian converted tens of thousands of young men to Eastern philosophy, Hemingway made sportsmen of them, Alexander Dumas complicated the lives of thousands of women, quite a few of whom were saved from suicide by cookbooks."
Illustration by Peter Sis
