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Cargando... The Book Shopper: A Life in Review (2009)por Murray Browne
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Not the most exciting topic, but a comfortable one. I enjoyed the chapter about Amazon, about moving boxed of books (the chapter was about weeding ones collection), and his anecdote about Fahrenheit 451. ( ) This was a disappointing read. Although the beginning and the end were well written with a flowing voice that offered both humor and insight, about a third of the middle of the book was relegated to an odd pseudo-review offering of the authors' favorite books. The inclusion of these personal comments proved off-putting to me. Since the author's background is in book reviews, I guess the inclusion of book reviews should not have come to a shock, but the compilation of books en masse with his unflagging judgments seemed simply pompous (e.g., several of his favorite books are introduced under the guise that the best way he could tell whether a used bookstore was of any merit was if they carried copies of these particular books. Ridiculous) The only reason the book still got its two stars is that the writing style of the rest of the book was highly entertaining. Initially, I couldn't put the book down. Then I got to his reviews and wanted to throw it down. But, by doing some heavy skimming, I kept plodding through, and the end picks up again with an enjoyable close. I am what writer Murray Browne would call a “book shopper.” His definition of this term is somewhat fluid—in fact, he has written an entire book exploring the possible nuances and permutations of this self-invented term called . . . wait for it . . . The Book Shopper. At its most basic, the phrase seems to apply to those kinds of people who prefer to buy books rather than, say, use the library, but there is more to it than that. There are, after all, people who stop by the nearest Barnes & Noble on their way to or from work to pick up a book to read for the weekend in the same way they’ll stop and get a nice bottle of wine to have on hand for dinner. A simple, everyday sort of task. Part of living the good life. A book shopper, on the other hand feels the pull, the draw, of a bookstore’s dim interior and closed, crowded shelves. A book shopper has a hard time walking by the open door of a bookstore, reluctantly slowing her pace to linger in front of the shop windows, peering in and wondering what may be discovered in the long dark aisles inside...read full review sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
"Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?"--Henry Ward Beecher The Book Shopper is a spirited and witty guide to the world of disheveled used bookstores and dusty basements where shelves sag under the burden of so many books. In the limitless sea of books, here's one that will make you laugh as it helps you find your way to titles and authors you'll really want to read. "This predilection [for browsing used bookstores] has grown into a real (albeit quirky) passion for thinking about the many ways books affect our lives--how and where we shop for them, the people we know who read them, the small passages that stick in our heads for years only to reappear at the oddest moments. The minds of book people are mosaics of ideas, thoughts, and phrases that have originated in books...I'm fascinated by how we hold and shape these fragments, how they coalesceinto what I call my book shopper state of mind."--from Chapter 1 of The Book Shopper In chapters such as "Book Lovers Are Not Necessarily People Lovers," "Prerequisites: What Every Good Bookstore Should Have," "Books as Gifts," and "The Classic Book Group," Murray Browne offers a lifeline to readers who love to browse for books and are always looking for that next great read--and a good deal--but who may be swamped by the vast offerings. Murray Browne has published numerous essays, book reviews, newspaper articles, feature stories, and technical articles. He holds a BA in English and Radio-Television and an MS in Information (Library) Sciences from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Though he grew up in the Midwest, Browne now lives in Atlanta, where he works as a media content analyst. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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