A Passion for Books : A Book Lovers
Treasury of Stories, Essays, Humor,
Love and Lists on Collecting,
Reading, Borrowing, Lending, Caring
for, and Appreciating Books by Rob
Kaplan
`Books Are The Windows Through Which The Soul Looks Out.'
Ray Bradbury: So there you have it, a lifetime of first smelling the books,
they all smell wonderful, reading the books, loving the books, and
remembering the books.
Anatole Broyard: The moment a book is lent, I begin to miss it. My mind
goes to the gap as ones tongue goes to a cavity. Until the book is returned,

I feel like a parent waiting up in the small hours for a teenage son or
daughter to come home from the dubious party.
Leo Rosten: There was no answer, no solution, no sop, no deliverance.
What, then, did I do? I read faster.
Clifton Fadiman: To read in bed is to draw around us invisible, noiseless
curtains. Then at last we are in a room of our own and are ready to burrow
back, back, back to that private life of the imagination we all led as children
and to whose secret satisfactions so many of us have mislaid the key.
Anna Quindlen: Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are
the destination, and the journey. They are home.
Personal Review: A Passion for Books : A Book Lovers
Treasury of Stories, Essays, Humor, Love and Lists on
Collecting, Reading, Borrowing, Lending, Caring for, and
Appreciating Books by Rob Kaplan
What a delightful little anthology that every devoted reader and collector
should own. This book was my constant coffee-table companion for
several weeks. I enjoyed sitting on the couch and reading an essay or
story or list here and there. I really felt I could relate to the writers and their
passion for books. My favorite essay was Rob Kaplan's "The Ritual,"
which describes his methodic routine of purchasing and cataloguing his
books. I could relate to his meticulous practices, as I have my own specific
methods upon attaining a book. Most enjoyable were the helpful lists, like
"Ten Best Selling Books Rejected by Publishers Twenty or More Times,"
and "100 Great Novels in the English Language." These prompted me to
get out my highlighter and evaluate what was I had read or what was in my
library. This is the perfect book for all bibliophiles who, like me, can relate
to Umberto Eco's statement that a library is a work in progress.
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