Monday, 9 January 2012

Bibliographical Bibliotherapy!

I've just been looking at what is new in terms of books about books and publishing - and there is treasure in abundance!  Putting together an order for the university library, I wonder how much of a fight there is going to be for some of these titles?! 

This Is Not The End of The Book, by Umberto Eco, has got to worth reading.  And Books, A Living History, by Martyn Lyons, is also intriguing. 


Then, what about The Lost Art of Reading, by David L Ulin?  In this book, Ulin asks why literature is so important.  And what it offers, especially now. 









More to follow, with some reviews, but for now, must get back to reading the work of John Thompson, in his impressively well-researched Merchants of Culture, which is a must-read for anyone wanting to understand publishing today.  It also has a fabulous image on the cover of a Babel-tower of books!

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