I'm a big Stephen King fan. I'm currently reading Finders Keepers, a story about two people several decades apart who are obsessed with skme fictional novels. Misery is a favorite of mine, a trapped author forced to write a new sequel for his biggest fan/capture.
Hearing these characters so worked up about reading and writing makes me excited to read more, and King writing the emotion of loving a great book really captures how I feel.
What's your favorite story about someone in love with a story. It can be fictional like these two, but bonus points if its real, so I can then read the book they are so in love with lol
by hypermemia
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It’s not fictional at all, and it can be quite academic, but whenever someone asks me “Why do you love reading and libraries”, I always think about h{{The Library at Night}} by Alberto Manguel.
It’s a collection of 14(?) essays exploring what “library” means and its interwoven with a loose story of the author rehabbing a 15th century church/farmhouse in France. He drops so many classic and niche literary references and I felt so unfamiliar but also the reflective and illustrative depths in which he explores the meanings are so rich and powerful.
Edit: see my other comment for the correct hardcoverbot summary of this book
h{{The Library at Night by Alberto Manguel}}
Absolutely check out *Cloud Cuckoo Land* by Anthony Doerr.