NEW BOOK: I MURDERED MY LIBRARY

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The E-Sylum: Volume 18, Number 16, April 19, 2015, Article 6

NEW BOOK: I MURDERED MY LIBRARY

Jeff Reichenberger writes:

I just read a very interesting short book from author/bibliophile Linda Grant describing the inner conflict facing many book lovers as they find the necessity to thin out their libraries and simultaneously embrace e-books. Nothing numismatic here but a good read for bibliophiles.

Entitled, "I Murdered My Library", I believe it's only available as a Kindle single. (Naturally, ironically, or appropriately, whichever the case may be.)

Thanks. That’s a traumatic time in the life of a bibliophile. What stays? What goes? How do you choose? Here's the publisher's description and a link to the Amazon page. -Editor

What happens when you begin to build a library in childhood and then find you have too many books? From a small collection held together by a pair of plaster of Paris horse-head bookends to books piled on stairs, and in front of each other on shelves, books cease to furnish a room and begin to overwhelm it. At the end of 2013, novelist Linda Grant moved from a rambling maisonette over four floors to a two bedroom flat with a tiny corridor-shaped study. The trauma of getting rid of thousands of books raises the question of what purpose personal libraries serve in contemporary life and the seductive lure of the Kindle. Both a memoir of a lifetime of reading and an insight into how interior décor has banished the bookcase, her account of the emotional struggle of her relationship with books asks questions about the way we live today.

To read the complete article, see:
I Murdered My Library (Kindle Single) [Kindle Edition] (www.amazon.com/Murdered-My-Library-Kindle-Single-ebook/dp/B00K6JO15A/ref=sr_1_1)

Wayne Homren, Editor

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