A Book a Day: Ex Libris

[caitri]

 Every day I'm posting a picture of a book I like. This one is a short, comfy book of essays about being a bookish person. Maybe my favorite piece is "Marrying Libraries" where Fadiman and her husband, after already being married for a decade, sat down to intermingle their books, shelve them appropriately, and dispose of duplicates--which several times led to them contemplating divorce, apparently. (Which, legit.) Spoiler alert, they do make it out of this task alive, and despite best efforts accept the mutual migrations of books that inevitably happens when you live with someone else.

Comments

[emluv]

This is one of my very favorite books, and YES to the marrying libraries essay. So charming, but also, as the owner of MANY books, I so appreciate their hesitancy.