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Books About Books
Books about: other books, literacy in general, writers, bookstores, literary culture. Usually non-fiction, but can be fiction as long as books are a central plot theme.
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For book lovers looking for a new reading project, there’s one and exactly one fail-safe genre: books about books.
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a bookstore is a place densely populated with tens of thousands of authors, dead or living, residing side by side. But books are quiet. They remain dead silent until somebody flips open a page. Only then so they spill out their stories, calmly and thoroughly, just enough at a time for me to handle.
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― Almond
― Almond
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An idea packaged up in nonfiction is a completely different animal to an idea packaged up in fiction. And while the lines blur in that hybrid creature called narrative nonfiction, we should be under no illusions that they’re the same animal.
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― Sending Signals: Amplify the Reach, Resonance and Results of Your Ideas
― Sending Signals: Amplify the Reach, Resonance and Results of Your Ideas
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