tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959297.post6394349768593131014..comments2024-03-21T07:37:30.475-04:00Comments on Light reading: Light reading updateJenny Davidsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02295436498255927522noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959297.post-84818708438862166982011-01-14T01:09:31.764-05:002011-01-14T01:09:31.764-05:00Oh, now this is funny because I adored BOUND TO LA...Oh, now this is funny because I adored BOUND TO LAST. I thought Karen Green's essay about her husband's annotated books was quite affecting (David Foster Wallace for those who don't know) and Joyce Maynard's piece on her father's Bible was lovely. I didn't expect that one to strike such a chord but as she wrote about not having it and why she longed for it, well, it reminded me of several of my father's books that I kept for the same reason.<br /><br />And also the piece on The Portable Dorothy Parker as she took it to college with her and I packed my own fav titles along with me even though my family thought it was insane. (And KLF of course!)<br /><br />I didn't get a big anti-ebook feeling from it. For me the point was that some books are necessary as objects - for the sense of person/place/time they give you which an e-book never could. I have my father's copy of THE CANTERBURY TALES and the e-book never would affect me the way the hard copy - which he read on the beach - does.<br /><br />In retrospect I am simply the perfect reader for this book perhaps ans that is why it resonated so much!Colleenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18380722344521975869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959297.post-31255322142763312872011-01-13T22:06:42.360-05:002011-01-13T22:06:42.360-05:00The KJF essay is gold!
And: "Wordly Wise&quo...The KJF essay is gold!<br /><br />And: "Wordly Wise"!!!Ed Parkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06968478096142741974noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959297.post-73099731439257311252011-01-13T21:43:25.715-05:002011-01-13T21:43:25.715-05:00Your recommendation of The Name of the Wind is imp...Your recommendation of <i>The Name of the Wind</i> is impressive. I know my wife really liked it--and she'll be pleased to learn there's a sequel coming!<br /><br />And while Ed's essay is enough by itself to make me want to read <i>Bound to Last</i>, knowing that there's good writing in there on <i>The Once and Future King</i> is a big bonus. I didn't read it until I was an adult, but I feel as if I got so wrapped up in it--it made such an impression on me--that I might as well have been reading as my ten-year-old self. What a great book.<br /><br />As for the e-book fear: I think it's exactly the fear that it <i>will</i> ultimately, or even soon, turn out to have been an either/or--that as e-books cut into the print sales of books that were already marginal, those print editions are going to slowly disappear. I think that fear is surely overblown (and I say that as someone who isn't into e-books personally), and that outcome fairly unlikely, at least in our lifetimes, but I understand where it's coming from.Levi Stahlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11094919454842047688noreply@blogger.com