“It occurred to me how curious it was that books are so often written about as if they were toasters.”

Toasters? In Anne Fadiman’s world, there is a difference between useful objects such as toasters and important things that you want to maintain a connection with, such as books. She loves books. As a writer, and the daughter of parents who were both writers, and the wife of … Read More

We want to walk into the pages…the closer we get, the better.

fadiman croppedWhat kind of reader are you?  Anne Fadiman gives a book-length answer to that question in Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader.  She tells stories  about her passion for reading books.  For example, she describes the thrill of going to a place that a book describes, then reading … Read More