![]() ![]() She decided that for the following year she would not buy any new books: instead she would read only books she already owned. ![]() The book was sparked, apparently, when Hill was searching for a book and was suddenly struck by the thought that she had hundreds - thousands - of books that she had never read, or wanted to reread, or didn’t even know she owned. ![]() Websites like The Millions, The Rumpus and Open Letters Monthly’s Like Fire section go a little way to sating my desire for book-chat, but I’m sure you can understand my joy when one of my favourite ghost-story writers, Susan Hill, published her own book about books: Howards End Is On The Landing. I’ve been a nerd for books since I was old enough to chew their pages, so what could possibly be better than a book about books? It’s like a cake with another, even more delicious, cake inside. My favourites are Anne Fadiman’s Ex-Libris and Alberto Manguel’s A Reading Diary, and I’ve read them so many times that the words are losing their meaning. I go on Amazon specifically to look at Listmania lists titled ‘books about books’. Book-books are my chosen topic of non-fiction writing, and there just aren’t enough of them. ![]()
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