One for the Books | 
pickAnother solid entry in the series. I love that this is a fairly well written cozy, I feel an affinity for the book recs dropped into the dialogue, and the library itself. A library cozy isn‘t all that rare but one in which the library, it‘s patrons and staff are believable? So rare. Thankful for a light and engaging read - I look forward to the next! Thanks to publisher and Netgalley for an advanced reader copy. all opinions are my own.
I seem to be stuck in this reading routine of: start & finish a book and I like it. Then start my next book and bail... then start my next book and bail... then start & finish a book and I like it.... then start my next book and bail.... UGH! I don‘t have high hopes for this book, but it‘s something 🤷🏼♀️
bailedHe says things like “encountering a lot of execrable women‘s fiction” or that costumed people at places like Colonial Williamsburg has “re-enactor‘s autism”. Bail!! I had thought this book about books would have been a good poolside read. I was wrong.
Great writers say things that are so beautiful, the very act of repeating them makes life itself beautiful
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panJoe Queenam's book snobbery made this hard to read. He is most interesting talking about books and what they mean to him, but the relentless negativity about everything (Kindles! Sci-fi! Mysteries! Bookstores! Libraries!) that characterizes his 'acerbic' brand of humor was annoying. The best section was the final chapter and epilogue, but Queenam manages to insult just about every kind of reader getting there.
"Reading is the way mankind delays the inevitable. Reading is the way we shake our fist at the sky. As long as we have these epic, improbable reading projects arrayed before us; we cannot breathe our last: Tell the Angel of Death to come back later: I haven't quite finished 'Villette.'" #TiffanyReads
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"Book lovers feel that writers are speaking directly to them across the pages, perhaps even ministering to them, healing them. ... Great writers say things that are so beautiful, the very act of repeating them makes life itself more beautiful."
I love this book already.
"I know why I read so obsessively: I read because I want to be somewhere else. Yes, this is a reasonably satisfactory world that we are living in...but the world conjured up by books is a better one."
After finishing up "Dimestore" and "Mozart and Leadbelly" for yesterday's #readathon, I'm checking out "One for the Books." Thought my fellow Littens could appreciate this quote.
pickHalf memoir, half rumination on reading. I re-read this every year as Joe Queenan is my favorite literary curmudgeon. I forgive him for hating on e-readers in return for quotes like this one. He spends a bit too much time talking about living in Paris as a young adult, but otherwise this is such a fun book about books, reading, and the love of all of it. Perfect for bibliophiles who want to see someone else geek out on reading.
