Erasing.org (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
Alberto Manguel, A Reading Diary , writing about The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis... [ CONTINUE READING » ] tags: Alberto Manguel , A Reading Diary , The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas , Machado de Assis , feel–good nerd theatre
The Good Library Blog (Free subscription) | 08/09/2008
From a correspondent I thought you'd be interested in the following quote in case you'd like to put it on the blog. This is a paragraph from The Library at Night, by Alberto Manguel - a wonderful book, a lyrical meditation really, about the meaning of libraries through history - published by Yale in 2006. This particular section is about the pleasures of browsing in a library, and discovering...
reeling and writhing (Free subscription) | 08/04/2008
... including Peter Carey (" The Spare Room is a perfect novel"), Hilary Mantel, John Banville, Alberto Manguel, Diana Athill and Michel Faber, any one of whom I would respect as a judge of serious fiction more than all five of these judges put together. One has to be philosophical about these things and as a publisher particularly so as you come to realise what a lottery these prizes...
Hindu (Free subscription) | 08/02/2008
... foremost bookman of our times. (However, he is not the most invigorating or insightful bookman: Alberto Manguel, author of A History of Reading is, and I can’t wait to profile him in a another column titled ‘Bookman II’). Basbanes’ newest, Editions and Impressions: Twenty Years on the Book Beat (Fine Books Press, 209 pages) is an engaging, warm, subtly humorous anthology of the many...
dovegreyreader scribbles (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
... - Thomas Hardy Run - Ann Patchett The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - Anne Bronte The Library at Night - Alberto Manguel Ekaterinburg - Helen Rappaport Child 44 - Tom Rob Smith Mrs Darcy's Dilemma - Diana Birchall The Changeling - Robin Jenkins Quartet in Autumn - Barbara Pym Links to my thoughts on most of these books are over here >>>>>>> and check out Susan Hill's Summer reading list...
Lorcan Dempsey's weblog (Free subscription) | 07/06/2008
Éilís Ní Dhuibhne, librarian and writer, has a review of The Library at Night by Alberto Manguel in today's Irish Times. Mirroring what an eclectic, beautiful library is like, this volume assembles its reflections in a systematic way, under 15 uniform titles, ranked up like handsome spines, all in a row: The Library as Myth, The Library as Imagination, The Library as Identity, etc....
