Everyone’s encountered an enchanting fictional library they’re dying to visit: the Cemetery of Forgotten Books, the restricted section at Hogwarts, the extremely specialist library of Richard Brautigan‘s fiction. But in real life, the magic in libraries is generally restricted to the stories between books’ pages, and the hush of a few particularly beautiful reading rooms. […]
How can a novelist go wrong when her subject is books? It’s the one topic for which all readers have a guaranteed soft spot. I’m no enemy to ereaders (or to reading on the internet, of course), but I’ve yet to read a really great novel about, say, celebrity tweets. So while we wait for […]