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Ex Libris: 100+ Books to Read and Reread
Ex Libris 100 Books to Read and Reread
Author: Michiko Kakutani, Dana Tanamachi (Illustrator)
Pulitzer Prize–winning literary critic Michiko Kakutani shares 100 personal, thought-provoking essays about books that have mattered to her and that help illuminate the world we live in today -- with beautiful illustrations throughout. — In the introduction to her new collection of essays, Ex Libris: 100+ Books to...  more » Michiko Kakutani writes: "In a world riven by political and social divisions, literature can connect people across time zones and zip codes, across cultures and religions, national boundaries and historical eras. It can give us an understanding of lives very different from our own, and a sense of the shared joys and losses of human experience."

Readers will discover novels and memoirs by some of the most gifted writers working today; favorite classics worth reading or rereading; and nonfiction works, both old and new, that illuminate our social and political landscape and some of today’s most pressing issues, from climate change to medicine to the consequences of digital innovation. There are essential works in American history (The Federalist Papers, The Writings and Speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr.); books that address timely cultural dynamics (Elizabeth Kolbert's The Sixth Extinction, Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale); classics of children's literature (the Harry Potter novels, Where the Wild Things Are); and novels by acclaimed contemporary writers like Don DeLillo, William Gibson, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and Ian McEwan.

With richly detailed illustrations by lettering artist Dana Tanamachi that evoke vintage bookplates, Ex Libris is an impassioned reminder of why reading matters more than ever.
ISBN-13: 9780525574972
ISBN-10: 0525574972
Publication Date: 10/20/2020
Pages: 304
Edition: Illustrated
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Publisher: Clarkson Potter
Book Type: Hardcover
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I love reading and collecting books about books. But I had to stop reading it after the first 20 pages which is very rare for me. Instead of discussing the beauty of all these books she has read she used every single book discussion as a springboard to demonize one particular political party as well as the leaders of that party that she obviously hates. If I wanted to read a political book I would have bought one. This is just a political book in disguise. The books themselves that she was discussing are fictional pieces of literature and really are not connected to politics at all.


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