alberto magnuel, the library at night

i have been meaning to read this for a while, and only recently remembered to put it on hold here at the library. i’ve only just started reading, but i can tell this book and i are going to get along quite well.

(via chessieann)

I read this in July, came across is at the excellent aworkinglibrary.com. It got me back into Borges, which I am still enjoying greatly and Manguel makes a great case for the library being a really essential part of the intellectual head-space of people as well as essential in a huge number of ways. The library’s a gem and the book is holding it up to a flame and rotating it slowly in the hand, admiring it’s facets. I really just love this book, it made me really sure of my decision to go to library school. One of the first I’d grab if the building were on fire. [oh god horribe nightmare.]