#allison hoover bartlett

[notreallyanywhereanymore]

I valued that half-dream state of being lost in a book so much that I limited the number of pages I let myself read each day in order to put off the inevitable end, my banishment from that world.

The Man Who Loved Books Too Much - Allison Hoover Bartlett

[prosedumonde]

En 1644, John Milton écrivait : « Les livres ne sont pas des objets inertes, mais portent en eux autant de vie que l’âme qui les a fait naître, en effet ils conservent, comme dans une fiole, la puissance et l’essence de l’intellect qui leur a donné le jour. »

Allison Hoover Bartlett, L’homme qui aimait trop les livres

English : For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.

[writer-at-the-table]

A book is much more than a delivery vehicle for its contents.

The Man who Loved Books Too Much by Allison Hoover Bartlett, page 21

[cricketnationrise]

quarantine reads part 4

part 1 | part 2 | part 3

76. The Countess Conspiracy by Courtney Milan: book 3 of the brothers sinister romance series. you absolutely DO NOT need to read these in order. i certainly didn’t. also. its a romance novel. there is sex.

77. Joy: And 52 Other Very Short Stories by Erin McGraw: short story collection. some of these are less than a page long. ideal reading for only having like 5 mins.

78. One Good Earl Deserves a Lover by Sarah MacLean: did i get this from the library because of the title? yes. is it a fantastic story? also yes. book 2 in the rules of scoundrels series. romance novel. there is sex.

79. The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman: magical library world at the heart of multiple universe has agents that retrieve unique works. featured universe is a sort of victorian england plus elves and werewolves and vampires and dragons and magic and this book is FANTASTIC. still need to get the others because IT IS A SERIES BUCKLE UP BUTTERCUP

80. The Rogue Pirate’s Bride by Shana Galen: book 3 of the sons of the revolution series. look i like romance novels. i especially like that you don’t have to read them in order. its a romance novel. there is sex. also PIRATES and the leads saving each other’s lives.

81. The Queens of Animation: The Untold Story of the Women Who Transformed the World of Disney and Made Cinematic History by Nathalia Holt: non-fiction look at the history of disney animation via the women who worked there. lots of details i didn’t know. chapters are movies rather than years.

82. The Man Who Loved Books Too Much by Allison Hoover Bartlett: bit of a misnomer since the guy is straight up stealing rare books with credit card fraud. he just thinks he’s being gentlemanly by amassing these books. it started off as a feature article and it shows.

83. We’re Here, We’re Here by KM Szpara: tor.com short story, 2 members of a boy band fall in love. management doesn’t like that so starts to control/manipulate the implants they put iN THEIR VOICE BOXES AHHH

84. The Night Soil Salvagers by Gregory Norman Bossert: tor.com short story, cool story telling form with in-world songs/poetry/recipes, very poetic writing

85. The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt: two brothers are hitmen get hired for a job. one of the brothers is really excited, the other starts to contemplate a different life, gold rush era california/western USA, horses, violent, seriously at least one person is killed in every chapter. at one point they burn down a whole lodge. cw: harm to animals, murder, starvation

86. The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin: classic piece of writing about the Black Male experience in the united states

87. The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper by Phaedra Patrick: lonely old man goes on scavenger hunt to find the meanings behind the charms on a bracelet he finds in his dead wife’s closet. travels all around UK and paris and makes friends near and far.

88. The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep by HG Parry: some people can read characters out of books. i repeat. CHARACTERS CAN COME OUT OF THEIR BOOKS. theres a whole diagonalley esq space that houses characters that can’t go back. chaos and danger ensue when uriah heep refuses to go back into his book. magic!

89. Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett: #11 in the discworld series, DEATH gets tired of doing all the things and decides to retire.

90. Death and What Comes Next by Terry Pratchett:  discworld short story

91. Love and Other Foreign Words by Erin McCahan: girls life is about to change when her sister is proposed to, very gifted, coming of age, crush on her teacher, endgame is her/her best friend who is a guy and has clearly been pining THE WHOLE TIME

92. Pioneer Girl: The Annotated Autobiography by Laura Ingalls Wilder:  i love the little house books and this was the first non-fictionalized account of her life i’ve read. the introduction by the editor was especially cool/helpful to read, lots of photos and drawings

93. Exhalation by Ted Chiang: this might be my favorite book of all quarantine. and i read a lot of books. a collection of short stories that all fucked me up, but in a good way? title story contains the sentence, “It’s no coincidence that “aspiration” means both hope and the act of breathing.” which like, how dare you sir

94. Wayward Son by Rainbow Rowell: book 2 in the simon snow series, which is a fantasy series created by rowell in her novel Fangirl. She then proceeded to write fanfic of this already fictional series. i’m in love with the meta. 3rd book out in 2021.

95. Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward: set in mississippi before/during/after hurricane katrina hits, follows one family through the eyes of the daughter. tw: sexual assault, dog fighting, harm to dogs, death of dog

96. The Will of the Empress by Tamora Pierce: was still doing my Emelan reread. 4 protags reunite to help out Sandry as she goes to Namorn to deal with her estate and her cousin the empress. whether they will be allowed to leave is another story

97. The King of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner: book 3 in the queen’s thief series, seriously, go back and read from the beginning. political machinations of the king from a (Mostly) outside POV. the gods are always closer than you think

98. The Girl of Fire and Thorns by Rae Carson: a very Spanish vibe fantasy novel. book 1 in a series. chosen one trope. new queen stumbles into the resistance. magic!

99. The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley: first book in a mystery series. a young teen girl is super into chemistry in 1950′s england countryside. someone is murdered in her garden. she tries to figure out what happened because her dad is still shell shocked. cw: kidnapping, harm to children

100. A Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe by Alex White: first in the salvagers trilogy. motley crew turns into found family on a space ship. in this world almost everyone has magic. older female protagonist. queer representation out the wazoo, SPACE. boots just wants to brew her beer and be left alone.

[theawkwardadorable]

Shelfconfidence BPC

Day 11 - Book Club

[chokethefire]

"Have you been in any trouble lately?" I asked.

"No," he said, "I haven't had time."

The Man Who Loved Books Too Much, Allison Hoover Bartlett

[mylearningself]

Sunday afternoon. About to read one of those. But which one?

[ilivedinbooks]

My new cool bookmark. 

[justforbooks]

The list is all about books and reading. Some are about or set in bookstores, others are perhaps about literary societies or book clubs, many are about libraries, and some are just about people who really love reading — you get the point. Overflowing in fun literary references and cozy nooks to read, it’s a great list to dive into if you’re looking for something to indulge the book lover in you.

If you have any additional suggestions, feel free to drop a comment below. Happy reading, book lovers!

The Shadow of the Wind CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON

Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookshop ROBIN SLOAN

The Book Thief MARKUS ZUSAK

Reading Lolita in Tehran AZAR NAFISI

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society MARY ANN SHAFFER

Fahrenheit 451 RAY BRADBURY

The Thirteenth Tale DIANE SETTERFIELD

84, Charing Cross Road HELENE HANFF

The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next #1) JASPER FFORDE

Lost in a Good Book (Thursday Next #2) JASPER FFORDE

The Club Dumas ARTURO PEREZ-REVERTE

People of the Book GERALDINE BROOKS

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler ITALO CALVINO

The Book of Lost Things JOHN CONNOLLY

The History of Love NICOLE KRAUSS

Writers & Lovers LILY KING

The Bookman's Tale CHARLIE LOVETT

First Impressions: A Novel of Old Books, Unexpected Love, and Jane Austen CHARLIE LOVETT

The Forgotten Garden KATE MORTON

Eight Perfect Murders (Malcolm Kershaw #1) PETER SWANSON

The Book of Lost Names KRISTIN HARMEL

Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows BALLI KAUR JASWAL

The Weight of Ink RACHEL KADISH

The Book of Speculation ERIKA SWYLER

The Bookshop of Yesterdays AMY MEYERSON

The Library of Lost and Found PHAEDRA PATRICK

The Library of the Unwritten (Hell's Library #1) A.J. HACKWITH

The Library Book SUSAN ORLEAN

The Invisible Library (The Invisible Library #1) GENEVIEVE COGMAN

Matilda ROALD DAHL

Ink and Bone (The Great Library #1) RACHEL CAINE

Inkheart (Inkworld, #1) CORNELIA FUNKE

The Book Charmer (Dove Pond #1) KAREN HAWKINS

Summer Hours at the Robbers Library SUE HALPERN

Camino Island (Camino Island #1) JOHN GRISHAM

The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek KIM MICHELE RICHARDSON

The Giver of Stars JOJO MOYES

The End of Your Life Book Club WILL SCHWALBE

The Bookish Life of Nina Hill ABBI WAXMAN

How to Find Love in a Bookshop VERONICA HENRY

Beach Read EMILY HENRY

The Dictionary of Lost Words BY PIP WILLIAMS

The Librarian of Auschwitz ANTONIO ITURBE

The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them ELIF BATUMAN

Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore MATTHEW SULLIVAN

The Bookseller CYNTHIA SWANSON

A Discovery of Witches (All Souls Trilogy #1) DEBORAH E. HARKNESS

The Little Paris Bookshop NINA GEORGE

The Lost for Words Bookshop STEPHANIE BUTLAND

The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry GABRIELLE ZEVIN

The Lions of Fifth Avenue FIONA DAVIS

The Children's Book A.S. BYATT

Possession A. S. BYATT

The Reader BERNHARD SCHLINK

The Strange Library MURAKAMI HARUKI

The Historian ELIZABETH KOSTOVA

The Left-Handed Booksellers of London GARTH NIX

Lost For Words STEPHANIE BUTLAND

Murder by the Book LAUREN ELLIOTT

Booked To Die (Cliff Janeway #1) JOHN DUNNING

Trouble on the Books (Castle Bookshop Mystery #1) ESSIE LANG

By Book or By Crook (Lighthouse Library Mystery #1) EVA GATES

The Case of the Missing Books (Mobile Library Mystery #1) IAN SANSOM

The Uncommon Reader ALAN BENNETT

The Violets of March SARAH JIO

Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason NANCY PEARL

The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession ALLISON HOOVER BARTLETT

The Lost and Found Bookshop SUSAN WIGGS

The Eighth Detective ALEX PAVESI

The Fifth Avenue Story Society RACHEL HAUCK

The Hazel Wood (The Hazel Wood #1) MELISSA ALBERT

The Stranger Diaries (Harbinder Kaur #1) ELLY GRIFFITHS

The Ghostwriter ALESSANDRA TORRE

The Editor STEVEN ROWLEY

Suggested Reading DAVE CONNIS

The Last Bookshop in London MADELINE MARTIN

The Bookshop on the Corner (Scottish Bookshop #1) JENNY COLGAN

The Bookshop on the Shore (Scottish Bookshop #2) JENNY COLGAN

The Haunted Bookshop (Parnassus Series #2) CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

The Camel Bookmobile MASHA HAMILTON

The Bookshop Book JEN CAMPBELL

The Last Bookaneer MATTHEW PEARL

The Jane Austen Book Club KAREN JOY FOWLER

The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend KATARINA BIVALD

The Bar Harbor Retirement Home for Famous Writers TERRI-LYNNE DEFINO

The Diary of a Bookseller SHAUN BYTHELL

The Jane Austen Society NATALIE JENNER

The Princess Bride WILLIAM GOLDMAN

The Library at the Edge of the World FELICITY HAYES-MCCOY

The Starless Sea ERIN MORGENSTERN

The Bookshop PENELOPE FITZGERALD

Confessions of a Bookseller SHAUN BYTHELL

The Night Bookmobile NIFFENEGGER

The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires GRADY HENDRIX

The Lending Library ALIZA FOGELSON

The Borrower REBECCA MAKKAI

Lost in a Good Book JASPER FFORDE

The Name of the Rose UMBERTO ECO

The Library of Babel JORGE LUIS BORGES

Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading  LUCY MANGAN

Anna Karenina Fix: Life Lessons from Russian Literature  VIV GROSKOP

Howard's End  E. M. FORSTER

Don Quixote  MIGUEL De CERVANTES SAAVEDRA

The Last Book Party KAREN DUKESS

Daily inspiration. Discover more photos at http://justforbooks.tumblr.com

[cheshirelibrary]

10 Nonfiction Titles That Will Change the Way You See Books 

[via Book Riot]

Books touch all of our lives. And I am genuinely fascinated by how they have impacted individuals as well as humanity as a whole. Because of this, books about books have been one of my favorite tropes. So, if you, like me, could spend hours staring at your shelves and falling down many Wikipedia rabbit holes about the books you own, I have a great list for you.

Packing My Library: An Elegy and Ten Digressions by Alberto Manguel

Dear Fahrenheit 451: Love and Heartbreak in the Stacks by Annie Spence

The Art of Reading by Damon Young

The Art of the Publisher  by Roberto Calasso

The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession by Allison Hoover Bartlett

The Novel Cure: From Abandonment to Zestlessness: 751 Books to Cure What Ails You by Ella Berthoud and Susan Elderkin

The Republic of Imagination: America in Three Books by Azar Nafisi

Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves edited by Glory Edim

The Book: A Cover-to-Cover Exploration of the Most Powerful Object of Our Time by Keith Houston

The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books by Edward Wilson-Lee

[the-forest-library]

Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore, Robin Sloan

The Man Who Loved Books Too Much, Allison Hoover Bartlett

The Book Thief, Markus Zusak

Books: A Memoir, Larry McMurtry

If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler, Italo Calvino

The Polysyllabic Spree: A Hilarious and True Account of One Man’s Struggle With the Monthly Tide of the Books He’s Bought and the Books He’s Been Meaning to Read, Nick Hornby

Phantoms On the Bookshelves, Jacques Bonnet

Reading Lolita in Tehran, Azar Nafisi

Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader, Anne Fadiman

Bibliotopia: Or, Mr. Gilbar’s Book Of Books & Catch-All Of Literary Facts & Curiosities, Steven Gilbar

[notreallyanywhereanymore]

I came to see that this story is not only about a collection of crimes but also about people’s intimate and complex and sometimes dangerous relationship to books.

The Man Who Loved Books Too Much - Allison Hoover Bartlett

[seasurfacefullofclouds1]

Hi😊 I think you're very smart and cool do you read books? which books and authors do you like best?✌

Hi!

Here’s a list of book recs!

I like literary fiction and historical nonfiction. I like mysteries if anyone has literary mystery recs! I am very particular about style.

I have these in a to-read list:

Katherine Arden, The Bear and the Nightingale

Kate Atkinson, Life After Life (read this... it was amazing)

Kate Atkinson, Transcriptions

Allison Hoover Bartlett, The Man Who Loved Books Too Much

Jennifer Egan, A Visit From the Goon Squad

Bryn Greenwood, All the Ugly and Wonderful Things

Daryl Gregory, Spoonbenders

Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale

Kristin Hannah, The Great Alone

Joanne Harris, Gentlemen and Players

Angie Kim, Miracle Creek

Zachary Lazar, Evening’s Empire

Attica Locke, The Cutting Season

E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

Rebecca Makkai, The Great Believers

Naomi Novik, Spinning Silver

Currently reading Anna Burns, The Milk Man, and Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451.

[writer-at-the-table]

The fearsome urge to destroy or suppress books is an acknowledgment of their power.

The Man who Loved Books Too Much by Allison Hoover Bartlett, page 253

[planetutah-blog]

The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession

Allison Hoover Bartlett

"Many matchmaking and social networking websites offer a place for members to list what they're reading for just this reason: books can reveal a lot about a person. This is particularly true of the collector, for whom the bookshelf is a reflection not just of what he has read but profoundly of who he is: 'Ownership is the most intimate relationship that one can have to objects. Not that they can come alive in him; it is he who comes alive in them,' wrote cultural critic Walter Benjamin."

[smithlibrary]

Read More 2019 Book about Books A book about books, bookstores or libraries

Nonfiction The End of Your Life Book Club by Will Schwalbe Everything Explained that is Explainable by Denis Boyles Howards End is on the Landing: A Year of Reading from Home by Susan Hill The Library Book by Susan Orlean The Man Who Loved Books Too Much by Allison Hoover Bartlett The Novel Cure: From Abandoment to Zestlessness by Ella Berthoud When I Was a Child I Read Books by Marilynne Robinson

Fiction The Book of Hidden Things by Francesco Dimitri The Book Thief by Markus Zusak The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society: A Novel by Mary Ann Shaffer The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler The Little Paris Bookshop: A Novel by Nina George Mr. Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend by Katarina Bivald The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin

Mystery The Case of the Missing Books by Ian Samson The Forgers by Bradford Morrow Murder in the Mystery Suite by Ellery Adams

Sci-Fi/Fantasy The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde Ink and Bone by Rachel Caine