Umberto Eco. On Literature.

Elegant, short essays that somehow manage to read like lyrical poetry. Seemingly designed for regular folks, he doses crazy amounts of info into small amounts of words, and even includes a spoonful of humor.

Just freaking read it and let it work on you.

Elin's Era

Autumn time makes me want to read more. I mean I am a librarian and I do read for work.

But funny enough you never read things you want to read but rather things that other say is popular or “in at the moment”.

I haven’t read much of my own interest lately so I thought I would make this list of books I want to read this autumn but also what I should read for work.

Maybe this will inspire so reading for you and maybe you have some great book tips for me?

Books I want to reads

Uglies by Scott Westerfeld – My fellow librarian told me about this book. Its suppose to be about the near future where everyone goes through a plastic surgery to look perfect at the age of 16. The story is about a woman soon to turn 16, Tally. But Tally’s new friend…

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