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So Many Books

Author : Gabriel Zaid
Publisher : Paul Dry Books
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781589882546

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"Gabriel Zaid's defense of books is genuinely exhilarating. It is not pious, it is wise; and its wisdom is delivered with extraordinary lucidity and charm. This is how Montaigne would have written about the dizzy and increasingly dolorous age of the Internet. May So Many Books fall into so many hands."—Leon Wieseltier "Reading liberates the reader and transports him from his book to a reading of himself and all of life. It leads him to participate in conversations, and in some cases to arrange them…It could even be said that to publish a book is to insert it into the middle of a conversation."—from So Many Books Join the conversation! In So Many Books, Gabriel Zaid offers his observations on the literary condition: a highly original analysis of the predicament that readers, authors, publishers, booksellers, librarians, and teachers find themselves in today—when there are simply more books than any of us can contemplate. "With cascades of books pouring down on him from every direction, how can the twenty-first-century reader keep his head above water? Gabriel Zaid answers that question in a variety of surprising ways, many of them witty, all of them provocative."—Anne Fadiman, Author of Ex-Libris "A truly original book about books. Destined to be a classic!"—Enrique Krauze, Author of Mexico: Biography of Power, Editor of Letras Libres "Gabriel Zaid's small gem of a book manages to be both delectable and useful, like chocolate fortified with vitamins. His rare blend of wisdom and savvy practical sense should make essential and heartening reading for anyone who cares about the future of books and the life of the mind."—Lynne Sharon Schwartz, Author of Ruined by Reading: A Life in Books "Gabriel Zaid is a marvelously elegant and playful writer—a cosmopolitan critic with sound judgment and a light touch. He is a jewel of Latin American letters, which is no small thing to be. Read him—you'll see."—Paul Berman "'So many books,' a phrase usually muttered with despair, is transformed into an expression of awe and joy by Gabriel Zaid. Arguing that books are the essential part of the great conversation we call culture and civilization, So Many Books reminds us that reading (and, by extension, writing and publishing) is a business, a vanity, a vocation, an avocation, a moral and political act, a hedonistic pursuit, all of the aforementioned, none of the aforementioned, and is often a miracle."—Doug Dutton "Zaid traces the preoccupation with reading back through Dr. Johnson, Seneca, and even the Bible ('Of making many books there is no end'). He emerges as a playful celebrant of literary proliferation, noting that there is a new book published every thirty seconds, and optimistically points out that publishers who moan about low sales 'see as a failure what is actually a blessing: The book business, unlike newspapers, films, or television, is viable on a small scale.' Zaid, who claims to own more than ten thousand books, says he has sometimes thought that 'a chastity glove for authors who can't contain themselves' would be a good idea. Nonetheless, he cheerfully opines that 'the truly cultured are capable of owning thousands of unread books without losing their composure or their desire for more.'"—New Yorker

So Many Books, So Little Time

Author : Sara Nelson
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2004-10-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0425198197

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“Will make many readers smile with recognition.”—The New Yorker “Readaholics, meet your new best friend.”—People “This book is bliss.”—The Boston Globe Sometimes subtle, sometimes striking, the interplay between our lives and our books is the subject of this unique memoir by well-known publishing correspondent and self-described “readaholic” Sara Nelson. The project began as an experiment with a simple plan—fifty-two weeks, fifty-two books—that fell apart in the first week. It was then that Sara realized the books chose her as much as she chose them, and the rewards and frustrations they brought were nothing she could plan for. From Solzhenitsyn to Laura Zigman, Catherine M. to Captain Underpants, the result is a personal chronicle of insight, wit, and enough infectious enthusiasm to make a passionate reader out of anybody.

The Dark Library

Author : Cyrille Martinez
Publisher : Coach House Books
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781770566224

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Libraries are magical places. But what if they’re even more magical than we know? In Cyrille Martinez’s library, the books are alive: not just their ideas or their stories, but the books themselves. Meet the Angry Young Book, who has strong opinions about who reads what and why. He’s tired of people reading bestsellers, so he places himself on the desks of those who might appreciate him. Meet the Old Historian who mysteriously vanished from the stacks. Meet the Blue Librarian, the Mauve Librarian, the Yellow Librarian, and spend a day with the Red Librarian trying to banish coffee cups and laptops. Then one day there are no empty desks anywhere in the Great Library. A great horde of student workers has descended, and they will scan every single book in the library: the much-borrowed, the neglected, the popular, the obscure. What will happen to the library then? Will it still be necessary? The Dark Library is a theoretical fiction, a meditation on what libraries mean in our digital world. Has the act of reading changed? What is a reader? A book? Martinez, a librarian himself, has written a love letter to the urban forest of the dark, wild library, where ideas and stories roam free.

Too Many Books!

Author : Gilles Tibo,Petra Johannson
Publisher : Markham, Ont. : Scholastic Canada
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0439967538

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Too Many Books! by Gilles Tibo,Petra Johannson Pdf

Every time Nicolas tries to do something, people give him a book. Now, he has so many books that tell him what to do, how to do it and why to do it that he can't stand them anymore! But could books also be fun?

Vale of the Vole

Author : Piers Anthony
Publisher : Tor Fantasy
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2000-03-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429958585

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When Esk, a young ogre-nymph-human, began his pilgrimage to the Good Magician Humfrey to rid himself of a seductive demoness, little did he know it would become a mission of mercy. A running river paradise and its harmless inhabitants were perishing in the wrathful wake of a greedy demon horde. Now it is up to Esk and his companions--a beautiful winged centaur named Chex and a brave burrower Called Volney--to search Xanth's treacherous reaches, gathering together a mind-boggling company of creatures to defend the precious Vale of the Vole...from beloved fantasy author Piers Anthony. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Ruined By Reading

Author : Lynne Sharon Schwartz
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2001-03-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780807071007

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A Los Angeles Times Book Review Best Book of 1996 'Without books how could I have become myself?' In this wonderfully written meditation, Lynne Sharon Schwartz offers deeply felt insight into why we read and how what we read shapes our lives. An enchanting celebration of the printed word. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Why Are there So Many Books About Bears?

Author : Kristina Stephenson
Publisher : Hachette Children's
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-07
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1444945998

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Why Are there So Many Books About Bears? by Kristina Stephenson Pdf

Have you ever wondered why there are so many books about bears? That is the Impossible Question that all the other animals just can't figure out! Thankfully the most brilliant minds in the animal kingdom have gathered to try and answer it, once and for all. But someone keeps knockety-knocking on the door, offering tea and cakes and interrupting their train of thought! Maybe the answer they're looking for was right outside all along... From the brilliant author of Sir Charlie Stinky Socks, this hilarious picture book has a very cute surprise in store!

Ending Aging

Author : Aubrey de Grey,Michael Rae
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2007-09-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781429931830

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Ending Aging by Aubrey de Grey,Michael Rae Pdf

MUST WE AGE? A long life in a healthy, vigorous, youthful body has always been one of humanity's greatest dreams. Recent progress in genetic manipulations and calorie-restricted diets in laboratory animals hold forth the promise that someday science will enable us to exert total control over our own biological aging. Nearly all scientists who study the biology of aging agree that we will someday be able to substantially slow down the aging process, extending our productive, youthful lives. Dr. Aubrey de Grey is perhaps the most bullish of all such researchers. As has been reported in media outlets ranging from 60 Minutes to The New York Times, Dr. de Grey believes that the key biomedical technology required to eliminate aging-derived debilitation and death entirely—technology that would not only slow but periodically reverse age-related physiological decay, leaving us biologically young into an indefinite future—is now within reach. In Ending Aging, Dr. de Grey and his research assistant Michael Rae describe the details of this biotechnology. They explain that the aging of the human body, just like the aging of man-made machines, results from an accumulation of various types of damage. As with man-made machines, this damage can periodically be repaired, leading to indefinite extension of the machine's fully functional lifetime, just as is routinely done with classic cars. We already know what types of damage accumulate in the human body, and we are moving rapidly toward the comprehensive development of technologies to remove that damage. By demystifying aging and its postponement for the nonspecialist reader, de Grey and Rae systematically dismantle the fatalist presumption that aging will forever defeat the efforts of medical science.

So Many Days

Author : Alison McGhee
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-05
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781416958574

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Through rhythmic text, a parent reflects on the options and opportunities possible in a beloved child's future.

Spring in Fialta

Author : Vladimir Nabokov
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780718196400

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'Spring in Fialta is cloudy and dull'. With his senses wide open, Victor wanders the streets. He meets Nina. Again. For fifteen years, their fleeting, chance encounters have made Nina a faint but constant presence in the margins of his life. As they happen upon one another once again, his mind wanders back into the past and relives each brief memory: their kiss in Russia, when she met his wife, when he met her husband, their affair in Paris. Each time she captivated him, each time she seemed to almost forget him, each time he noticed a lurking sense of apprehension that began to grow.

The Complete Polysyllabic Spree

Author : Nick Hornby
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0241969883

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The Draglings Bedtime Story

Author : Randal Spangler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 173744240X

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A rhyming bedtime story about two little cookie-loving dragons.

So Many Wonderfuls

Author : Christina Matthews,Tina Matthews
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Belonging (Social psychology)
ISBN : 1922077518

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Rhyming text describes the wonderful places in a small town - the beach, school, corner shop, hall, park, and mobile library.

The Making of Many Books

Author : Stuart Weeks
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781575068800

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Taking advantage of the unprecedented access to books and information that has become available in the last few years, this bibliography identifies and traces the history of hundreds of books and articles on Ecclesiastes published in many different languages before 1875. It includes not just scholarly literature but exegetical sermons, homiletic works, and poetic paraphrases of the text in order to offer significantly more comprehensive coverage than in any earlier bibliography. The publication history of each work is outlined in detail, with brief discussions of the background or content where appropriate, cross-references are given to major bibliographies and bibliographical databases, and indexes of authors, publishers, and biblical references are provided. Intended to serve as an important resource not only for students of Ecclesiastes and for bibliographers but for all who are interested in the history of reception or interpretation of the Bible, this bibliography also includes coverage of many more general works on the Megillot, on the Old Testament, and on the Bible as a whole in this period.

The Fairy Books of Many Colors Volume One

Author : Andrew Lang
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 1294 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-17
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781504065115

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The Fairy Books of Many Colors Volume One by Andrew Lang Pdf

Four volumes in the influential series of folklore and fairy tales collected from many cultures—for children of all ages. In a time when fairy tales were dismissed, even condemned, by academics and critics, Andrew Lang and his wife, Leonora Blanche Alleyne, worked to compile a multitude of these stories—not only helping them gain great popularity among everyday readers but also changing the widespread perceptions of this kind of literature. This entertaining volume brings together four of Lang’s collections—The Blue Fairy Book, The Red Fairy Book, The Green Fairy Book, and The Yellow Fairy Book—totaling more than 150 stories.