![]() And he lists everything, not just the worthy or serious books, so that one of his first columns contains How to stop smoking and stay stopped for good. ![]() ![]() He starts each month with two columns – books bought and books read – rarely do they match. I kept wanting to quote bits out loud to anyone nearby as I was reading it, but most of the pleasure of reading Nick Hornby’s writing comes in the way he piles things together so that you have to read the whole page to really get the joke. It’s a wonderfully honest tour through the book reading habits of an inveterate reader. This is a collection of Nick Hornby’s monthly essays on the books he’s read that month, from Believer magazine (a US magazine which I had never heard of but sounds worth reading). Today’s book review is The complete Polysyllabic Spree – the Diary of an Occasionally Exasperated But Ever Hopeful Reader, by Nick Hornby (interestingly only available on Amazon UK, not US). ![]()
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