I'm not even sure I know exactly what I'm looking for here 😂😂. Basically I want a story about books and stories and why we like to read … All presented in novel form. Basically I want a story with books at it's center.
I am not the biggest fan of romance so try to avoid that 😅😅
For reference I just finished THE BOOK THAT WOULDN'T BURN and loved it so much … I would like something similar but where the idea of books and our love to read take the center stage more than the characters … If that makes any sense 😆
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The telling by Ursula k. le Guin is not so much about books, but very much about stories.
The best one I’ve read is “If on a winter’s night a traveller”.
A bit less famous but a true oddity: A Rebours, by Huysmans. It literally only talks about books, nothing else happens. Very French though.
Reading is the nature of man – the school of leisure –
On books and reading:
“When evening comes, I return home and go into my study. On the threshold I strip off my muddy, sweaty, workday clothes, and put on the robes of court and palace, and in this graver dress I enter the antique courts of the ancients and am welcomed by them, and there I taste the food that alone is mine, and for which I was born. And there I make bold to speak to them and ask the motives of their actions, and they, in their humanity, reply to me. And for the space of four hours I forget the world, remember no vexation, fear poverty no more, tremble no more at death: I pass indeed into their world.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli
Read Between the Lines: A Novel (Ms. Right Book 1) by Rachel Lacey is set in a bookstore, but there is a F/F romance arch, so it might not fit. I do recall enjoying the parts about picking out books for her customers.
The Neverending Story
Mr Penumbra’s 24-hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan.
The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
1. The lonely book by Kate Bernheimer – This book opens up all the possibilities of a reader’s plight and affinity towards books either in scuffed, teared edges or even missing pages.
2. Book love by Debbie Tung – This is about bibliophile and its knack of bonding with books.
The Thirteenth Tale
Borges