“As the child of two incredibly literary parents (both of them writers and voracious readers), Anne Fadiman has written a collection of essays about her experiences with books, and not just reading them. She writes about plagiarism, secondhand stores, vocabulary lovers and the inscriptions we write - all told with a self depreciating and humorous voice.

Every essay entertained me. I'm sure part of that is the fact that I am a fellow lover of not just the written word itself, but the...”

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