I'd Rather Be Reading - A Library of Art for Book Lovers

Informationen zum Autor Guinevere de la Mare is a San Francisco–based writer, author, book lover, and the founder of Silent Book Club, a pop-up speakeasy for readers worldwide. Klappentext I'd Rather Be Reading is a visual love letter to all things bookish. It features beautiful art, photography, and illustrations depicting the pleasures of books interwoven with poems, quotations, and aphorisms, as well as essays from writer Maura Kelly, bestselling author Gretchen Rubin, and award-winning author and independent bookstore owner Ann Patchett. A cheerful homage to the particular pleasure of getting lost in a good book Zusammenfassung For anyone who'd rather be reading than doing just about anything else, this book is the ultimate must-have. In this visual ode to all things bookish, readers will get lost in page after page of beautiful contemporary art, photography, and illustrations depicting the pleasures of books. Artwork from the likes of Jane Mount, Lisa Congdon, Julia Rothman, and Sophie Blackall is interwoven with text from essayist Maura Kelly, bestselling author Gretchen Rubin, and award-winning author and independent bookstore owner Ann Patchett. Rounded out with poems, quotations, and aphorisms celebrating the joys of reading, this lovingly curated compendium is a love letter to all things literary, and the perfect gift for bookworms everywhere.

Product details

• Authors: Guinevere De La Mare
• Publisher: Chronicle Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.08.2017
• EAN: 9781452155111
• ISBN: 978-1-4521-5511-1
• No. of pages: 96
• Dimensions: 132 mm x 184 mm x 12 mm
• Series: I'd Rather Be Reading
• Subjects: Education and learning > Readings/interpretations/reading notes > English; Fiction > Gift books, albums, perpetual calendars, postcard booklets; Humanities, art, music > Art > Antiques; Non-fiction book > Art, literature > Literature: general, reference works; Photography & photographs, The arts: general issues, ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES / Books, Gift books, Literature: history & criticism