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Loading... The Most Wonderful Books: Writers on Discovering the Pleasures of Reading (edition 1997)by Michael Dorris (Editor)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Published in association with the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress. ( ) I'm a sap for reading books about books and books about readers, so this book was perfect for me. My favorite essay was by Bill Holm. Here's a little bit that I liked:"...I read them (books) like an addict. A day---even an hour or two---without print makes me edgy and hungry. I hide books in my car, both trunk and cubbyhole, in my office drawers, in side pockets of duffel bags....The vision of jail with a good library is not so bad. With no books, I'd be a fine candidate for suicide....Books contain the seven basic food groups of the soul. Ignore them and you starve inside; you die with a malnourished, shrivelled, bony spirit...." no reviews | add a review
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