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What Are the Best Books You’ve Ever Read? Those Are Your Ideal Bookshelf!
Harder than you think to determine!
When my sister gifted me a copy of Bibliophile, I had no idea what a treat I was in for!
This wonderful book about books is designed to entice true bibliophiles like me. It’s filled with illustrations of bookstacks by genre. Facts about authors, sketches of bookstores, and tantalizing trivia about literature are contained in these ingenious pages.
The author of Bibliophile, Jane Mount, is an artist. She started doing illustrations of people’s ideal bookshelves.
“What’s an ideal bookshelf?” you may ask.
An ideal bookshelf is a painting of the books that most represent you, the books you love the most. As Mount describes it,
“Everyone has a favorite, maybe the first book they held to their chest and told someone else about, or the one that changed the way they saw the world forever. Many of us have several. Painted together on a shelf, these books tell a story of what we’ve experienced, what we believe, and who we are.”
