Tag: writing

• Do You Have An Odd Book Shelf? (Ex Libris, Anne Fadiman)

  The late-great Flann O’Brien (aka Brian O’Nolan, aka Myles na Gopaleen) would, I feel have approved wholeheartedly of Anne Fadiman and her family. The idiosyncratic exponent of the art of Professional Book Handling (http://chriscross-thebooktrunk.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/i-want-to-be-book-handler.html) would have been delighted by their belief that books are there to be read and enjoyed, and that it is quite…

  chrisharding53

  May 30, 2012

  Anne Fadiman, book handling, book shelves, books, Confessions of a Common Reader, Ex Libris, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, language, libraries, writing

• I am a Guest Blogger!

  WOOHOO! Today I am a guest blogger for Vulpes Libris, with a piece about my family’s somewhat eccentric reading habits. As a child most people have hidden a book under the bedclothes or beneath the lid of a school desk – but have you ever read while ironing? Or left clothes behind to make room…

  chrisharding53

  March 14, 2011

  books, essay, family, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, journalism, reading, writing