Friday, October 3, 2008

A passion renewed

I have been told time and time again to read a little book by a woman named Anne Fadiman. The cover of said book is enough to create envy in me, and yet I had never gone beyond said cover. I have entered more bookstores than I can count, only ignoring the book as it stared back at me from the shelves.

This little book changed my life. Or at least reminded me why I am obsessed with reading and writing. The book Ex Libris is a collection of essays about reading and words. Its a brilliant piece of literature and entirely consuming. Each essay paints a better and more complete picture of Fadiman's slightly bizarre family whom all have the same obsession with words.

It reminded me that I had to write and write and write and write. And so I have been. Or at least trying to.