The Book Whisperer Discovers a Book for Book Lovers

My friend and fellow reader Theresa recommended that I locate and read Jane Mount’s Bibliophile. She gave good advice! Bibliophile is a book-lover’s dream. The advertising on Amazon calls Bibliophile “the perfect gift for book lovers, writers, and your book club.” I would agree.

To whet readers’ appetites, here are some topics from the table of contents: “Kids’ Picture Books,” “Striking Libraries,” “Bookstore Cats,” “Five-Word Synopsis Quiz,” and “Food Writing.”

In the chapter titled “Bookish People Recommend,” Mount quotes a variety of people who work with books from librarians to book buyers for book stores; they suggest books. For example, Julia Hobart who is a book buyer at Bookloft in Great Barrington, MA, recommends The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper. She says, “I read it as a kid, and it has stuck with me.” Maris Kreizman, editorial director of Book of the Month, suggests Anagrams by Lorrie Moore because “Anagrams broke apart all my expectations about what a novel could do.”

Bibliophile is a book one needs to purchase and dip into often. The tidbits one finds throughout the book delight readers. In “Songs About Books,” Mount includes information about Sting who “worked literature into many of the songs he wrote for The Police and for himself.” She points out lines from T.S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” and from Shakespeare’s sonnets.

Not only are the topics interesting and varied, Bibliophile is also visually appealing. Mount has included numerous drawings to illustrate the chapters.

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