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Though Marie Kondo’s best-selling book about de-cluttering came out almost a decade ago, I still see her praised in newspaper columns and on line. Her advice to cull your books by only keeping the ones that "bring you joy" reveals that she doesn't understand all the different meanings that books can have for their owners.
Kondo maintains that “books are essentially paper – sheets of paper printed with letters and bound together. Their true purpose is to be read, to convey the information to their readers. It’s the information they contain that has meaning. There is no meaning in them just being on your shelves.”
It’s hard to imagine a more mechanistic, unfeeling approach to reading and owning books. Add to that her advice to just tear out a page that has particular meaning for you and then pitch the rest of the book. Seriously? This is a plan? This makes sense? That's not de-cluttering, that's vandalism.
I think that my European-educated mother, who read in many languages, would have called Kondo “a vulgarian.”
Psychologist James Hillman wrote in The Force of Character that “A book is built on ideas” and that the “capacity to entertain ideas and find pleasure in this entertainment has long been a justification for writing and reading book
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I’ve been a Simon Winder fan ever since he published his hilarious cultural exposé James Bond: The Man Who Saved Britain. I read it while traveling and laughed so hard and so often that I startled people around me in airports and on planes. I just couldn’t help myself.
I was more circumspect when Winder launched a trilogy about the tangled history of German-speaking peoples and their friends and foes with Germania. I made sure that I read that book and its follow-up Danubia at home. I laughed even more, but this time only my dogs were startled.
Those books are a unique combination of memoir, travelogue, history, and cultural commentary filtered through an exceedingly wry sense of often self-deprecating humor. They are very British. Where does his new book and the last volume in the trilogy take us? A land that most people have never heard of: Lotharingia.
Okay, it may sound like a country in a Marx Brothers movie, but it’s real. Well, it was real. It’s the part of Charlemagne’s empire that lay between France and Germany and today is roughly where you find The Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and parts of France and Switzerland. The region has seen umpteen battles as one ruler or country after another sought to control it
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