I liked this one, though it was little philosophical for my taste. Doesn't help that my brain is being fried at work and it's hard to read anything for pleasure right now. Reminds me of how much I love reading, though, and how special and unique a reader's relationship with each book is.

Manguel explores different facets of libraries such as shape (how different library shapes influence a reader), power, imagination, and identity. There was lots of history, references to other books, and a few personal stories (his library sounds divine, btw).

- My books hold between their covers every story I've ever known and still remember, or have now forgotte, or may one day read; they fill the space around me with ancient and new voices.
- More than anything, memory resembles a library in alphabetical disorder, and with no collected works by anyone.
- Each reader is but one chapter in life of a book, and unless he passes his knowledge on to others, it is as if he condemned the book to be buried alive.
- Lys ce que voudra (read as you please)