Toasters? In Anne Fadiman’s world, there is a difference between useful objects such as toasters and important things that you want to maintain a connection with, such as books. She loves books. As a writer, and the daughter of parents who were both writers, and the wife of a writer, you can only imagine the books that “accumulated on our shelves (and on our windowsills, and underneath our sofa, and on top of our refrigerator) …” This book was recommended to me by a friend who shares this obsession with books with me. This book about books is wonderful.
Fadiman, Anne. Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1991, p. x.