Books
about books.
This
is my favorite kind of book. I love
books that talk about other books, publishing, writing, literacy, free speech,
authors, book history, bookstores, language and all things bibliophile. My never-ending fascination with such books
is embraced by a minority of people, but it’s a sizeable group.
You
know the kind of people that like such books.
They are wordsmiths, maybe writers, professors, educators, or
historians. They love the smell of books
and engage their senses to consume books that touch upon history, communication
and creativity.
There
are even lists devoted to identifying such books. Many stores have sections dedicated
to them.
Here
is a sample of books that talk about books or have a central theme built around
books:
·
Weird Things
Customers Say in Bookshops
·
The Man Who Loved
Books Too Much
·
Book List: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment,
and Reason
·
So Many Books, So
Little Time: A Year of Passionate
Reading
·
The Jane Austen Book
Club
·
A Novel Bookstore
·
The Bestseller
·
How Reading
Changed My Life
·
The Book Thief
·
The Bookstore
·
The Case of the
Missing Books
·
Fahrenheit 451
·
Matilda
·
Bibliotopia
·
Book: A Memoir
·
The Bookshop Book
·
1001 Books You
Must Read Before You Die
·
A History of Reading
·
How to Read a Book
·
When Books Went to
War: The Stories that Helped Us Win
World War II
·
The World Between
Two Covers: Reading the Globe
·
The Year of
Reading Dangerously: How Fifty Great
Books (and Two Not-So-Great Ones) Saved My Life
·
The Novel Cure: From Abandonment to Zestlessness: 751 Books to Cure What Ails You
·
The Pleasure of Reading: 43 Writers on the Discovery of Reading and
the Books that Inspired Them
·
Book Crush: For Kids and Teens – Recommended Reading for
Every Mood Moment and Interest
·
The Book of Lost
Books: An Incomplete History of All the
Great Books You’ll Never Read
Are
you book curious? Do you find yourself
more fascinated with a book about some aspect of books than by some ordinary
books? We are so inquisitive about writers
and their creative powers, their checkered pasts, and their struggles to
influence others. We want to be taken
behind the scenes of the publishing industry and into the lives of those who
impact it – from editors, literary agents, book critics, and press agents to
those influenced by books – society and its institutions.
If
you read any book this year, read one about books!
Selected Excerpts From Trivium: The Classical Liberal Arts of
Grammar, Logic & Rhetoric (Bloomsbury)
Scripts
“The word ‘grammar’
comes from the Greek term gramma (a
letter), itself related to grapho (to
draw or write). The invention of script,
around 3000 BC in Sumeria and India, suddenly made it possible to write and
read texts of law, commerce, ritual, poetry, history, philosophy, and
science. And, perhaps most important of
all, it gave birth to the detailed discussion of the correct form of such
texts.
“Broadly speaking,
scripts come in two types. Logographic
systems try to depict the meaning of
a text without relating to the sound of language (the Chinese script being a
prime example). Phonographic systems, on
the other hand, record text as it would sound
when spoken. The Roman alphabet, which
we use to write English and other Western European tongues, is phonographic, as
are the scripts used for Hebrew, Russian, Greek, Arabic, and Sanskrit. Today’s International
Phonetic Alphabet is used for correctly writing the pronunciation of
languages.”
Language
“Every natural
language uses a distinct set of sounds as building blocks, these generally
being classified as either consonants
or vowels. Distinguishing how and with which parts of
our speech organs these sounds are formed can be of great help in the
acquisition of a language. The science
of sounds in speech and language is called phonetics.
“Language is
humanity’s primary vehicle for though and communication, both internal and
external. Indeed, the ability to learn
the complex system of symbols and rules which underlie syntax and grammar is
arguably the most distinctive feature of the human race. Grammar enables us to inform, edify, and
entertain; it allows us to reason, debate, and argue; it helps us study, build,
and use complex things, from recipes to spaceships.
“One of the earliest
written languages for which governing rules were established is Indian
Sanskrit.
“Broadly speaking,
older languages have more complex systems of inflection, while the grammar of
younger languages is more simplified.
Immigration, trade, invasions, and occupations may have forced villagers
to learn more languages over time, and, rather than mastering the intricacies
of any particular tongue, they muddled along with a simplified speech which later
became the rule. Perhaps the finest
example of such a process and its result is English.”
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