00000cam a22000003i 4500 UP-1685594773862217448 Buklod 20201030150007.0 m | | ta 201030t20001998nyu rb |||| e|eng d 9780374527228 (pbk.) (iLib)UPBAG-00038350813 OLC BAG rda eng PN 4874 F33 2000 Fadiman, Anne 1953- author. Ex libris confessions of a common reader Anne Fadiman. First paperback edition. New York Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2000. ©1998. xi, 162 pages 19 cm text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages [155]-157) Marrying libraries -- The joy of sesquipedalians -- My odd shelf -- Scorn not the sonnet -- Never do that to a book - - True womanhood -- Words on a flyleaf -- You are there -- The His'er problem -- Insert a caret -- Eternal ink ? The literary glutton -- Nothing new under the sun -- The catalogical imperative -- My ancestral castles -- Sharing the mayhem -- The P.M.'s empire of books -- Secondhand prose. A collection of essays discusses the central and joyful importance of books and reading in the author's life. Fadiman, Anne 1953- Books and reading. FO UPBAG UPBAG-MAIN PN 4874 F33 2000 Book