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getting old in mke

(813 posts) Mon Sep 30, 2013, 06:08 PM Sep 2013

Books about books

So, I'm reading _The Shadow of the Wind_ by Carlos Ruiz Zafón and it made me start thinking about books about books.

Since I've always really liked such meta-books, I thought it might be fun if we put together a list.

As starters, I'll also include:

_Club Dumas_ by Arturo Pérez-Reverte
_The Neverending Story_ by Michael Ende
_The Princess Bride_ by William Goldman

John Dunning's Cliff Janeway mysteries:
_Booked to Die
_The Bookman's Wake_
_The Bookman's Promise_
_The Sign of the Book_
_The Bookwoman's Last Fling_ (haven't read this one)

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Books about books (Original Post) getting old in mke Sep 2013 OP

I liked the shadow of the Wind pscot Sep 2013 #1

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1. I liked the shadow of the Wind

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Mon Sep 30, 2013, 07:12 PM

Sep 2013

Very imaginative. You might enjoy The Archimedes Codex[/]. It's about a manuscript by Archimedes that got scrubbed, folded and turned into a prayer book by Byzantine monastic scribes. I think Nova devoted a program to it.

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