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Bibliotopia, Or, Mr. Gilbar's Book of Books & Catch-all of Literary Facts & Curiosities

Author :
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN 13 : 9781567922950
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (229 download)

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Download or read book Bibliotopia, Or, Mr. Gilbar's Book of Books & Catch-all of Literary Facts & Curiosities written by and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 2005 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the origin of the word "book"? What is the oldest working library still in existence? What is an "enchiridion"? An "amphigory"? A "duodecimo"? Which two Nobel laureates refused the prize in literature? How many trees must sacrifice their lives to produce a thousand copies of a 96-page volume of verse? These are some of the questions posed (and answered) in this fascinating farrago of literary trivia, a treasure trove of obscure and irresistible facts, definitions, lists, and quotations that touch on every aspect of books, including their authors, publishers, printers, collectors, critics, readers, and enemies. Under headings that explore the entire history of bibliomania from "The Invention of Paper" to "Some Horror Writers' Offcial Websites," the entries in Bibliotopia provide the insatiably curious reader a delightfully desultory literary education, the kind one might pick up at a cocktail party on Parnassus.

Literary Miscellany

Author : Alex Palmer
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1616080957
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Literary Miscellany written by Alex Palmer and published by Skyhorse Publishing Inc.. This book was released on 2010-10-27 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Behind-the-book stories and facts about authors, publishing, and everything..

Joyce in the Belly of the Big Truck; Workbook

Author : Joyce A. Cascio
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780976237310
Total Pages : 1230 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book Joyce in the Belly of the Big Truck; Workbook written by Joyce A. Cascio and published by . This book was released on 2005-05 with total page 1230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Lady Who Liked Clean Restrooms

Author : J. P. Donleavy
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312187347
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (873 download)

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Download or read book The Lady Who Liked Clean Restrooms written by J. P. Donleavy and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1998-06-15 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A delightful classic in the making--by the author of "The Gingerman". Joy, who finds her resources rapidly dwindling after her husband divorces her for a bit of "fresh flesh", finds comfort in her quest for the cleanest restrooms in New York City. 8 line drawings.

Women who Write

Author : Stefan Bollmann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Women who Write written by Stefan Bollmann and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at the literary contribution of various of women authors throughout the ages.

You've GOT to Read This Book!

Author : Jack Canfield
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061758000
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (617 download)

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Download or read book You've GOT to Read This Book! written by Jack Canfield and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There's nothing better than a book you can't put down—or better yet, a book you'll never forget. This book puts the power of transformational reading into your hands. Jack Canfield, cocreator of the bestselling Chicken Soup for the Soul® series, and self-actualization pioneer Gay Hendricks have invited notable people to share personal stories of books that changed their lives. What book shaped their outlook and habits? Helped them navigate rough seas? Spurred them to satisfaction and success? The contributors include Dave Barry, Stephen Covey, Malachy McCourt, Jacquelyn Mitchard, Mark Victor Hansen, John Gray, Christiane Northrup, Bernie Siegel, Craig Newmark, Michael E. Gerber, Lou Holtz, and Pat Williams, to name just a few. Their richly varied stories are poignant, energizing, and entertaining.Author and actor Malachy McCourt tells how a tattered biography of Gandhi, stumbled on in his youth, offered a shining example of true humility—and planted the seeds that would help support his sobriety decades later. Bestselling author and physician Bernie Siegel, M.D., tells how William Saroyan's The Human Comedy helped him realize that, in order to successfully treat his patients with life-threatening illnesses, "I had to help them live—not just prevent them from dying." Actress Catherine Oxenberg reveals how, at a life crossroads and struggling with bulimia, a book taught her the transforming difference one person could make in the life of another—and why that person for her was Richard Burton. Rafe Esquith, the award-winning teacher whose inner-city students have performed Shakespeare all over the world, recounts his deep self-doubt in the midst of his success—and how reading To Kill a Mockingbird strengthened him to continue teaching. Beloved librarian and bestselling author Nancy Pearl writes how, at age ten, Robert Heinlein's science fiction book Space Cadet impressed on her the meaning of personal integrity and gave her a vision of world peace she'd never imagined possible. Two years later, she marched in her first civil rights demonstration and learned that there's always a way to make "a small contribution to intergalactic harmony." If you're looking for insight and illumination—or simply for that next great book to read—You've Got to Read This Book! has treasures in store for you.

Not Forgotten

Author : Steven Gilbar
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN 13 : 9781567922943
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (229 download)

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Download or read book Not Forgotten written by Steven Gilbar and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 2006 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a collection of commemorative essays by some of the world's greatest literary talent--about some of the world's greatest literary talents: Emerson on Thoreau, Howells on Twain, Cather on Crane, Baldwin on Wright, Bellow on Cheever, and forty-three further pairings.

The Whole Five Feet

Author : Christopher R. Beha
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 0802199909
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book The Whole Five Feet written by Christopher R. Beha and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2010-05-11 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique memoir of reading the classics to find strength and wisdom “makes an elegant case for literature as an everyday companion” (The New York Times Book Review). While undergoing a series of personal and family crises, Christopher R. Beha discovered that his grandmother had used the Harvard Classics—the renowned “five foot shelf” of great world literature compiled in the early twentieth century by Charles William Eliot—to educate herself during the Great Depression. He decided to follow her example and turn to this series of great books for answers—and recounts the experience here in a smart, big-hearted, and inspirational mix of memoir and intellectual excursion that “deftly illustrates how books can save one’s life” (Helen Schulman). “As he grapples with the death of his beloved grandmother, a debilitating bout with Lyme disease and other major and minor calamities, Beha finds that writers as diverse as Wordsworth, Pascal, Kant and Mill had been there before, and that the results of their struggles to find meaning in life could inform his own.” —The Seattle Times “An important book [and] a sheer blast to read.” —Heidi Julavits

The Man Who Loved Books Too Much

Author : Allison Hoover Bartlett
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101140305
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book The Man Who Loved Books Too Much written by Allison Hoover Bartlett and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-09-17 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of The Orchid Thief, a compelling narrative set within the strange and genteel world of rare-book collecting: the true story of an infamous book thief, his victims, and the man determined to catch him. Rare-book theft is even more widespread than fine-art theft. Most thieves, of course, steal for profit. John Charles Gilkey steals purely for the love of books. In an attempt to understand him better, journalist Allison Hoover Bartlett plunged herself into the world of book lust and discovered just how dangerous it can be. John Gilkey is an obsessed, unrepentant book thief who has stolen hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of rare books from book fairs, stores, and libraries around the country. Ken Sanders is the self-appointed "bibliodick" (book dealer with a penchant for detective work) driven to catch him. Bartlett befriended both outlandish characters and found herself caught in the middle of efforts to recover hidden treasure. With a mixture of suspense, insight, and humor, she has woven this entertaining cat-and-mouse chase into a narrative that not only reveals exactly how Gilkey pulled off his dirtiest crimes, where he stashed the loot, and how Sanders ultimately caught him but also explores the romance of books, the lure to collect them, and the temptation to steal them. Immersing the reader in a rich, wide world of literary obsession, Bartlett looks at the history of book passion, collection, and theft through the ages, to examine the craving that makes some people willing to stop at nothing to possess the books they love.

Painting with Patterns in Photoshop

Author : Elliott Banfield
Publisher : Focal Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415823852
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (238 download)

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Download or read book Painting with Patterns in Photoshop written by Elliott Banfield and published by Focal Press. This book was released on 2013-11-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elliott Banfield uses Photoshop to digitally create stunning, ink-and-pen-like drawings reminiscent of engravings that were once possible to produce only through the use of non-digital materials like charcoal. This was a messy process and resulting images were hard to recreate and reproduce in bulk (i.e. for publication). Elliott’s personally developed methods will appeal to those who want to create the old-timey aesthetic of ink-and-pen engravings in a much tidier, more easily repoduced digital method. The book will be accompanied by downloadable versions of all of the tools and shortcuts that Elliott has developed using Photoshop.

Ex Libris

Author : Anne Fadiman
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1429929421
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Ex Libris written by Anne Fadiman and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perfectly balanced between humor and erudition, Ex Libris establishes Anne Fadiman as one of our finest contemporary essayists. 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.

The Complete Polysyllabic Spree

Author : Nick Hornby
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141902736
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book The Complete Polysyllabic Spree written by Nick Hornby and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2007-06-28 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Complete Polysyllabic Spree is Nick Hornby's wickedly funny journey through reading This is not a book of reviews. This is not a book that sneers at other books. This is a book about reading - about enjoying books wherever and however you find them. Nick Hornby, author of the bestsellers About a Boy and Fever Pitch - takes us on a hilarious and perceptive tour through the books he bought, the books he read and his thoughts on literature. He is first and foremost a reader and he approaches books like the rest of us: hoping to pick up one he can't put down. The Complete Polysyllabic Spree is a diary of sorts, charting his reading life over two years. It is a celebration of why we read - its pleasures, its disappointments and its surprises. And above all, it is for you - the ever hopeful reader. For fans of Bill Bryson and Stephen Fry, and for bookworms everywhere, this witty, passionate book will make you cherish the world of letters anew. 'An engaged and engaging ramble around one reader's mind' The Times 'Not only does it make you want to read more but, like all great books, it's also terrific company' Metro 'For anyone whose idea of a good time is arguing with friends about their favourite books...amusing and contagiously enthusiastic' Big Issue

More Baths Less Talking

Author : Nick Hornby
Publisher : McSweeney's
ISBN 13 : 1938073053
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book More Baths Less Talking written by Nick Hornby and published by McSweeney's. This book was released on 2012-08-21 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Read what you enjoy, not what bores you,” Nick Hornby tells us. That simple, liberating, and indispensable directive animates each installment of the celebrated critic and author’s monthly column in the Believer. In this delightful and never-musty tour of his reading life, Hornby tells us not just what to read, but how to read. Whether tackling a dismayingly bulky biography of Dickens while his children destroy something in the next room, or getting sucked into a serious assessment of Celine Dion during an intensely fought soccer match featuring his beloved Arsenal, or devouring an entire series of children’s books while on vacation, Hornby’s reviews are rich, witty, and occasionally madcap. These essays capture the joy and ire, the despair and exhilaration of the book-lover’s life, and will appeal equally to both monocle-wearing salonnieres and people, like him, who spend a lot of time thinking about Miley Cyrus’s next role.

The Book That Changed My Life

Author : Roxanne J. Coady
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101043466
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The Book That Changed My Life written by Roxanne J. Coady and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-10-18 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in paperback, a delightful collection of essays on the transformative power of reading In The Book That Changed My Life, our most admired writers, doctors, professors, religious leaders, politicians, chefs, and CEO s share the books that mean the most to them. For Doris Kearns Goodwin it was Barbara Tuchman's The Guns of August, which inspired her to enter a field, history writing, traditionally reserved for men. For Jacques Pépin it was The Myth of Sisyphus, which taught him the importance of personal responsibility, dignity, and goodness in the midst of existentialist France. A testament to the life-altering importance of literature, this book inspires us to return to old favorites and seek out new treasures. All proceeds go to The Read to Grow Foundation, which partners with urban hospitals to provide books and literacy information to newborns and their families.

The Book Book

Author : Steven Gilbar
Publisher : Random House Value Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book The Book Book written by Steven Gilbar and published by Random House Value Publishing. This book was released on 1985 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Dear Fahrenheit 451

Author : Annie Spence
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781785417856
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book Dear Fahrenheit 451 written by Annie Spence and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever wished you could tell your favourite books just what they mean to you? Or wanted to give a piece of your mind to the "must-read" book that you wish you hadn't? Librarian Annie Spence has done just that, writing fan-girl love letters to books like MATILDA and THE GOLDFINCH, and irreverent break-up notes to FIFTY SHADES OF GREY and THE HOBBIT. Annie's letters will make you laugh, remind you why you love your favourite books, and give you lots of new entries for your reading list. She's also on hand to help you with your bookish dilemmas: recommendations for lazy readers, excuses to tell your friends when you'd rather stay home reading, and how to turn your lover into a reader.

Stuff I've Been Reading

Author : Nick Hornby
Publisher : Viking
ISBN 13 : 9780241967942
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (679 download)

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Download or read book Stuff I've Been Reading written by Nick Hornby and published by Viking. This book was released on 2015-06-04 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stuff I've Been Reading by Nick Hornby - the bestselling novelist's rich, witty and inspiring reading diary'Read what you enjoy, not what bores you,' Nick Hornby tells us. And in this new collection of his columns from the Believer magazine he shows us how it's done. From historical tomes to comic books, literary novels to children's stories, political thrillers to travel writing, Stuff I've Been Reading details Nick's thoughts and experiences on books by George Orwell, J.M. Barrie, Muriel Spark, Claire Tomalin, Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, Jennifer Egan, Ian McEwan, Cormac McCarthy and many, many more. This wonderfully entertaining journey in reading differs from all other reviews or critical appreciations - it takes into account the role that books actually play in our lives.This book, which is classic Hornby, confirms the novelist's status as one of the world's most exciting curators of culture. It will be loved by fans of About a Boy and High Fidelity, as well as readers of Will Self, Zadie Smith, Stewart Lee and Charlie Brooker.