Shelf Life: How Books Have Changed the Destinies and Desires of People and Nations

by Karen B. Grant and George Grant

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1581820437
• ISBN13: 9781581820430
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Cumberland House Publishing
• Length: 221 Pages
• Weight: 0.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 7.1"

Customer Reviews

Wonderful handbook for booklovers

Shelf Life is full of wonderful quotes about words and books, enlightening and inspirational stories for all booklovers, and encouragement to live your life as a reader. I thoroughly enjoyed this window into the minds of authors about the meaning and joy of reading.

Only for Book lovers, I'm sure!

"I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library," wrote Jorge Luis Borges. This perfect quote for book lovers is a sampling of what's inside Shelf Life, a treatise about the impact books have on humanity. Throughout this small volume, the reader uncovers information about books as well as wonderful quotes concerning books, and book lists from a variety of sources. It is also a look at what kinds of reads appeal to a variety of thinkers. The quotes alone are enough to make an avid reader want to get his/her hands on these pages, the book lists are engrosing as well. I could ad some of my own favorites to this review, and so I shall: My Best Friends Live In Books ...from a poster promoting the children's writer, Rosemary Wells. You better be careful to make books like you!... ...taken from The Goops by Gelette Burgess. The only thing missing are some pretty pictures! Enjoy!

A fascinating literary, cultural and historical survey.

The culture of books and reading has had a great impact not only upon the lives of individuals, but on the course of nations. This celebration of books and reading gathers quotes and reflections by literary figures from all eras, considering these changes. Light but inviting reading.