Abstract
Book Review of Leah Price, What we talk about when we talk about books: the history and future of reading, New York, Basic Books, 2019, 224 pp. ISBN 978-154-167-390-8
Highlights
Charming and sexy are hardly two adjectives one would attribute to an essay on book history or most academic subjects
The high-quality top overview photograph of a thick book block — red painted on the edges with a twisted spine and swirling pages fading into a black background — makes an attractive heterogenous shape
Leah Price publishes in the field since the year 2000, and her previous book, How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain (2012), already provided a remarkable picture of the interclass uses and ethics of the book by the Victorians as the book developed into a fashionable object
Summary
What We Talk About When We Talk About Books: The History and Future of Reading. Charming and sexy are hardly two adjectives one would attribute to an essay on book history or most academic subjects.
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