O! what Man will do fore a Rime!

We had been married in this loft, in full view of our mutually quarantined Melvilles. Promising to love each other for richer or for poorer, in sickness and in health -- even promising to forsake all others -- had been no problem, but it was a good thing the Book of Common Prayer didn't say anything about marrying our libraries and throwing out the duplicates. That would have been a far more solemn vow, one that would probably have caused the wedding to grind to a mortifying halt.

- Excerpt from "Marrying Libraries"

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Note: The review below was taken directly from my Goodreads account.

Ex Libris is a book about books and book lovers. Fadiman details her life with books in a collection of short essays.

As enjoyable as this little read was, I have to say that I disagree with Fadiman in some ways: I don't think readers are so clear-cut in the way they love books (carnal vs. courtly); and, as a budding linguist, her essay on grammar "The His'er Problem" (not "r/ Inseʌt a Carrot /e", because that one is fantastic) is infuriating to read. I have enough trouble dealing with my own feelings on grammar (descriptive vs. prescriptive), I don't need to suffer through hers as well.