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|title=Ex Libris

|author=Anne Fadiman

|buy=Yes

|borrow=Yes

|pages=144

|publisher=Penguin Books Ltd

|date=March 2000

|isbn=0140283706

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It was by the side of my bed when I last visited my daughter and I picked it up in the early hours of a June night when it was really too hot to sleep. At just 132 pages, eighteen short essays on the subject of books and some recommended reading it was just long enough to entertain me until the night cooled.

I've just given you a taste of what's in the book. There isn't a common theme other than that books are always there and the subjects are wide-ranging. It might only be 132 pages of text but it will make you laugh, sigh and think. There isn't a wasted word and it's worth reading for the way that it's written if nothing else. I read it in about two hours. As I thought they were going to be two wasted, uncomfortable hours I was doubly-blessed.

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