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Another book mentioned in my Bibliotherapy session, but not part of the official prescription was Unpacking My Library: Writers and Their Books, edited by Leah Price. It's a lovely little hardback book in landscape format, taking the form of interviews with writers about their relationship with books, accompanied by photographs of their home libraries. I'd heard of less than half the writers (Alison Bechdel, Stephen Pinker, Philip Pullman, Lev Grossman) but it was still interesting to read all the different answers to questions about storing, reading, buying, disposing of, marking up, and lending books. I always like seeing how other people store their books, too, so the photographs were also engaging. I believe there are others in this series, focusing on different professions, so I may well look up a few more.