【一個書迷對於閱讀、紙本書的愛情告白】
作者從自身童年接觸書本的經驗開始,從金剛經到科幻小說,從古騰堡到今天大眾平裝書的興起,以及站在現今的自身觀點之下對於經典的定義,細數了對於書本與閱讀的熱情與看法。他將喚起你對於書本、閱讀的熱情與愛。
Most of what we say about books is really about the words inside them: the rosy nostalgic glow for childhood reading, the lifetime companionship of a much-loved novel. But books are things as well as words, objects in our lives as well as worlds in our heads. And just as we crack their spines, loosen their leaves and write in their margins, so they disrupt and disorder us in turn. All books are, as Stephen King put it, 'a uniquely portable magic'. Here, Emma Smith shows us why.