Full name: Where Books Fall Open: A Reader's Anthology of Wit & Passion

Author: Bascove Year: 2001 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Poetry Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9781567922516 1567922511

This is a book about books, about the pleasures, passions, and rewards of reading, about authors dedicated to writing and readers who delight in words in the right order. It contains a rich selection devoted to this seductive subject, from Calvino's meditation on selecting a title in a bookstore to Woolf's essays on the joys of "the common reader," from Schwartz's "Ruined by Reading" to Eco's "How to Organize a Public Library." The book is illuminated by sixteen full-color paintings by Bascove, who here serves as editor, illustrator, and primum mobile. Produced to the highest standards, it is not only a gift for the literary, but also an inducement to the diffident. Similar books: Bookworms by Laura Furman The Most Wonderful Books by Michael Dorris For the Love of Books by Ronald B. Shwartz Every Book Its Reader by Nicholas A. Basbanes The Pleasure of Reading by Antonia Fraser A Reader's Delight by Noel Perrin A Passion For Books by Harold Rabinowitz One for the Books by Joe Queenan Reading in Bed by Steven Gilbar Buried in Books by Julie Rugg Book by Book by Michael Dirda Nothing Remains the Same by Wendy Lesser Bound to Last by Sean Manning A Book Addict's Treasury by Lynda Murphy Jacob's Room is Full of Books by Susan Hill New and Selected Poems: Volume 2 by Mary Oliver The Complete Poems by Elizabeth Bishop Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost Crush by Richard Siken Citizen by Claudia Rankine