The Book-Obsessed Parisian - Anne François, The Age of Reading

This is a happy memory of all the books related to a Parisian bookie, where the dearest friends meet each other.

As an editor of a well-known publishing house, Anne François spent most of her career in reading, having many wonderful encounters with books and accumulating a variety of stories and topics.

Since childhood, reading has been the most harmless game for her, and she has always maintained the spirit of an amateur, and her love for books is as innocent and natural as a child's love of candy.

Anne François's brushstrokes are light, funny, and sensitive. In her writing, the vicissitudes of middle age and the enthusiasm of children are charmingly integrated.

There are many loose pens in the text, but one by one, borrowing books and abandoning books, bar code smells, relatives and friends travel, all write about the fate and entanglement with the book, and the words are fatalistic obsession and love. When reading, I often laugh in my heart, or suddenly my thoughts are stirred.

For example, she wrote that all the birthday gifts that a seven-year-old child received from every adult were all books, books, books, books: "On that day, everyone seemed to have been slapped in the face. This way of encouraging children to read is cruel, almost like an act of terror. ”

She wrote about the books that had been disposed of by the library: "These old books are paraded around, with no intention of staying, not willing to retreat, as if they are dying and reborn." They rest in my bookshelf for a while, and one day they will be sold or given away, displaced, and finally drifted to nothing that only God knows. ”...... Bit by bit, all kinds of taste.

What is rare is that as a book that purely writes "books", there is no pedantic and sour atmosphere in the pages of more than a hundred pages, affinity and looseness, sincerity of nature, and there is no literati shelf at all.

Reading such a book seems to be talking to a friend with similar hobbies: her preferences may also be your preferences, her happiness is also your happiness, and most of her friends can be regarded as friends by you.

All the stupid things she does for books and words, you always smile when you see it, the same people who are obsessed with books, similar things, it is possible, you will do it once.

Books invade the reader's room and get involved in his love, family, friendship, professional interactions... And a man's collection of books, in a sense, is his autobiography, about the tribe to which he belongs, the whole life he has built around books.

Some books are loved by readers, not because of how accomplished they are, but purely because they have an appetite for themselves, so reading is really a very personal thing. For me, this book is joy, happiness, and hope to feel it.