Borges' protégé Alberto Manguel, who seems to specialize in writing about the literary experience, had impressed me with his History of Reading a few years ago, and now again with The Library at Night. This "history" of libraries and book collections is actually more of a meditation on the concept of libraries, both public and personal. What does our choice of books say about us? What does the way we classify those books? How do they live in our minds? Attention is even given to imaginary libraries, electronic media and the act of book burning. The library as everything. There isn't a page in this book that doesn't contain a fascinating fact, a lucid observation or a well-chosen quote. Man... I really have to get my shelves in order...