Ex Libris

出版者:Penguin

作者:Anne Fadiman

页数:144

出版时间:2000-03-02

价格:GBP 9.99

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780140283709

具体描述

Anne Fadiman is--by her own admission--the sort of person who learned about sex from her father's copy of Fanny Hill, whose husband buys her 19 pounds of dusty books for her birthday, and who once found herself poring over her roommate's 1974 Toyota Corolla manual because it was the only written material in the apartment that she had not read at least twice.

This witty collection of essays recounts a lifelong love affair with books and language. For Fadiman, as for many passionate readers, the books she loves have become chapters in her own life story. Writing with remarkable grace, she revives the tradition of the well-crafted personal essay, moving easily from anecdotes about Coleridge and Orwell to tales of her own pathologically literary family. As someone who played at blocks with her father's 22-volume set of Trollope ("My Ancestral Castles") and who only really considered herself married when she and her husband had merged collections ("Marrying Libraries"), she is exquisitely well equipped to expand upon the art of inscriptions, the perverse pleasures of compulsive proof-reading, the allure of long words, and the satisfactions of reading out loud. There is even a foray into pure literary gluttony--Charles Lamb liked buttered muffin crumbs between the leaves, and Fadiman knows of more than one reader who literally consumes page corners. Perfectly balanced between humor and erudition, Ex Libris establishes Fadiman as one of our finest contemporary essayists.

作者简介

安妮·法迪曼（Anne Fadiman），生于美国纽约市，在康涅狄格州和洛杉矶长大，毕业于哈佛大学。毕业后，她在怀俄明州当野外探险向导，后来回到纽约从事写作。曾任《生活》杂志的特约撰稿人，《文明》杂志编辑和《美国学人》编辑。她的第一本书《鬼怪抓住你，你就跌倒了》（The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down，FSG，1997）获“美国国家书评奖”，她还写有随笔集《书趣》（Ex Libris），编有《经典重温》（Rereadings，FSG，2005）等作品。她现与家人住在马萨诸塞州西部，并担任耶鲁大学弗朗西斯住校作家。

读后感

文笔不错的一本小书，只给了三星，给分这么低，是因为我对里面写的小故事们不是很感兴趣，或者说不是很有共鸣。为什么会如此呢？明明作者文笔挺好、说的又是我感兴趣的读书这件事。 纠结两天才想清楚，正如前言里作者说的，普通人读书是为了乐趣，想从碰到的各种零零碎碎中为自...  

可能是因为自己是从业于滑雪攀岩登山设备运动公司的原因，我喜欢书的《我的特别书架》这一章节。威尔逊的日记很打动我，恰好2012年7月9日，严冬冬先生因为山难离开，想到此章节更是潸然泪下。我把喜欢的这一章节，工工整整抄在了笔记本上，值得记下并铭记。

文笔不错的一本小书，只给了三星，给分这么低，是因为我对里面写的小故事们不是很感兴趣，或者说不是很有共鸣。为什么会如此呢？明明作者文笔挺好、说的又是我感兴趣的读书这件事。 纠结两天才想清楚，正如前言里作者说的，普通人读书是为了乐趣，想从碰到的各种零零碎碎中为自...  

作者说，爱书的人分两种，世俗的和高雅的。高雅的爱书者对书真是呵护备至，不能容忍别人把书在看到的那一页倒扣起来。甚至即使对书签也挑三拣四，不能太厚，否则会在书上留下印痕。而世俗的爱书人，会为了减轻戴上飞机的书的重量，而把已经读过的章节撕下来。 作为一个什么东西...  

要说这个暑假最大的收获，就是一本一本买了不少书，还能够看了其中的三分之一强。 下午把上班的爸爸和山山送走，又给上班的姐姐打了慰问电话，发短信给上班的妈妈。 然后不上班的我，就开始擦地，对于擦地这件事，我只会像一休哥那样，还没有人家那么熟练。 所以，在擦了厨...  

用户评价

每读完一篇都要把书抱在怀里，沉浸在结识a new true friend的幸福当中，贪心地延缓持续到来的感动。怎么能有一个书痴这样懂另一个书痴！

a book about book lovers

每读完一篇都要把书抱在怀里，沉浸在结识a new true friend的幸福当中，贪心地延缓持续到来的感动。怎么能有一个书痴这样懂另一个书痴！

每读完一篇都要把书抱在怀里，沉浸在结识a new true friend的幸福当中，贪心地延缓持续到来的感动。怎么能有一个书痴这样懂另一个书痴！

每读完一篇都要把书抱在怀里，沉浸在结识a new true friend的幸福当中，贪心地延缓持续到来的感动。怎么能有一个书痴这样懂另一个书痴！