wampusreynolds's review
5.0
This collection of small essays is a delight. The quality of essays of course varies depending on the writer's skill and/or passion, but the wide array of subjects from different centuries and countries and how they influence and illuminate is what makes reading for me.
I know I shouldn't respond to other people's reviews (or I should since there is that comment button?) but this critique that some books listed are too hard to find is totally illogical and antithetical to the spirit of the book. Who cares if you can't find the out of print travelogue of an island from the 19th century? You now have read someone's love of it!
I've made a list of 32 books I would like to search out from this guide. I'll probably find two or three in my life and read maybe one. But that is fine.
I know I shouldn't respond to other people's reviews (or I should since there is that comment button?) but this critique that some books listed are too hard to find is totally illogical and antithetical to the spirit of the book. Who cares if you can't find the out of print travelogue of an island from the 19th century? You now have read someone's love of it!
I've made a list of 32 books I would like to search out from this guide. I'll probably find two or three in my life and read maybe one. But that is fine.
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