Full name: Reading in Bed: Personal Essays on the Glories of Reading

Author: Steven Gilbar Year: 1995 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Essays, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9781567920956 1567920950

Twenty-two essays spanning five centuries, along with author notes and full bibliographies, provide an insight into one of humanity's greatest solitary diversions - reading. Similar books: A Reader on Reading by Alberto Manguel Rereadings by Anne Fadiman Bookworms by Laura Furman Ten Years in the Tub by Nick Hornby The Most Wonderful Books by Michael Dorris A Reader's Delight by Noel Perrin On Reading, Writing and Living with Books by Virginia Woolf Where I'm Reading From by Tim Parks The Pleasure of Reading by Antonia Fraser Book by Book by Michael Dirda Every Book Its Reader by Nicholas A. Basbanes The Gifts of Reading by Robert Macfarlane Browsings by Michael Dirda Ex Libris by Anne Fadiman One for the Books by Joe Queenan Small Wonder by Barbara Kingsolver The Lost Tools of Learning by Dorothy L. Sayers Six Memos for the Next Millennium by Italo Calvino Lectures on Literature by Vladimir Nabokov The Great Movies by Roger Ebert