Friday Feature: The Well-Tended Bookshelf by Laura Miller

Check out this link to an article my sis sent me: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/30/books/review/Miller-t.html?_r=2.  It’s got a lot of truth to it when I look at my own bookshelf, and I bet you’ll find some too.  I think Jonathan Franzen sums it up nicely in a quote toward the end of the article: ““The weight of those books seemed to represent a standing reproach to me of how little I was reading,” he said in a phone interview. “I want to be surrounded by books I love, although now sometimes I worry that it’s too familiar, what I see when I look around me, that it’s become a sort of narcissistic mirror.”

Indeed.