Talking of buzz books as we have been over on the Hill blog this morning, my copy of The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop by Lewis Buzbee arrived from Graywolf Press in Minnesota yesterday. This was much heralded by bluestalking reader and so far I can see why.It's a treat that any bookaholic will just settle down into and feel completely at one with.
There was one passage that caught my eye early this morning as Lewis Buzbee traces his own reading history and I thought it would translate perfectly into a blog thread
"For those who are afflicted with book lust, those for whom reading is more than information or escape, the road to our passion is quite simple, paved merely by the presence of the printed matter.
It's a common story; fill in your own blanks:
I was --------years old when I happened on a novel called----------, and within six months I had read every other book by the writer known as ------------"
For Lewis Buzbee he was fifteen and the book was The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck.
I was fourteen and for me the book was Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier.
How about you?
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