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Well...it was an interesting premise but not much follow through. Clunky and not very engaging writing.

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Delighted with this book! Predict I will finish it this morning. The whole concept of “lost books” is one I had never thought about. Love when a book opens me to new worlds. Short, fascinating read.

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Walked a mile with my son this evening, now relaxing on porch- sunny, beautiful cooling breeze. Tagged book is one I discovered at That Bookstore in Wethersfield Ct when meeting up with @CareBear @Ncostell @mrozzz
The book intrigued me.📚🍷😁

The premise of this was good, the author highlighted several stories about authors and some of their missing work. I felt like a lot of it was conjecture and essays related to personal issues the authors had.

This book is about the author‘s journey to find information about lost books, which he makes sure to distinguish from forgotten books. It‘s a quick read covering eight volumes which were deliberately or accidentally destroyed, stollen or lost. Some authors I was familiar with like Hemingway, Byron, and Gogol and others not, such as Romano Bilenchi, Malcolm Lowry & others. A quick read leaving the reader wondering what was within those lost pages.

A brief but fascinating exploration of the author's journey to discover texts that have been lost, destroyed or, in the case of Hemingway, stolen from a train. He doesn't find any but that's not really what his search was about. He talks about the void left by these lost texts, how enquiring minds have sought to fill those voids and the legacy of their absence. I would recommend to anyone who has an interest in literature.

Thanks to #netgalley for providing this arc for my review. This was a charming book about those stories that got away. Many of these relate to missing books from earlier in the twentieth century, before the advent of computers. Stories of both well-known and more obscure authors are included here. The passion and knowledge of the author is clear. I only wished there was more to tell in these stories. 3.5⭐️

Just voted and now I‘m chilling at the local Dunkin‘ with a macchiato and this ARC on my Kindle. It‘s a short, charming little book so far. #ivoted

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A delightful literary object, crammed with puzzling stories about eight lost manuscripts.

An elegant little book about the "lost" works of literature: texts that went missing, were stolen, or deliberately destroyed. Bilenchi, Byron, Hemingway, Schulz, Gogol, Lowry, Benjamin, & Plath are the writers discussed. The author wears his learning & research lightly. He writes in an accessible, intimate voice. As readers & book lovers, it is something difficult to contemplate—mourning the art that can never be—& the book is elegiac in tone.

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From Byron to Gogol to Plath this skin volume succinctly tells the story of the gossip and rumor surrounding legendary lost texts and touches on the merits of artistic ownership of the writer/subject versus the reading public. The chapters are brief and many of the stories were at least a little familiar but it mentions many other peripheral texts that sound fascinating. For a little thing is really boosted my tbr!

What happens when you work in a library and change departments...
I took full advantage of the Blackwell's sale, my local discount and my book tokens when selecting these beauties