A Passion for Books

A collection of sixty classic and contemporary essays, stories, lists, poems, quotations, and cartoons that celebrates the joys of reading, the feeling of spending hours browsing through a bookstore, and the people for whom buying books is a necessity.  Booklovers will find themselves in good company within the pages of  A Passion for Books, b eginning with science-fiction great Ray Bradbury's foreword and throughout contributions like-- Umberto Eco's  How to Justify a P