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Howards End Is on the Landing: A Year of Reading from Home
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Really clever memoir. Susan Hill, searching for one book uncovers oodles that she had forgotten she had, forgotten she had read, didn't rememeber ever having seen before. If this sounds familiar you'll really enjoy this traipse through literature. Wonderfully ' name-droppy ' ( I know there is no such word but it fits I assure you ). In a year when she decides to buy no new books, (Good grief) and opts to re-discover her own collection ( Hmmmm, interesting ) She reflects on the power of books, the joy of encountering writers and like minded people and litters the chapters with personal anecdotes and descriptions of the highs and lows of her reading life. fabulous. The only small drawback to this tome is that it has left me with a whole list of writers and books that now join my to read list.. Oh thank you so much Susan
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"In a year when she decides to buy no new books, (Good grief) and opts to re-discover her own collection"I heard about this book and I've been trying to do the same. It is surprising (or maybe not) how many books now in the second year I still have on my shelves that I either haven't read, or had forgotten, or have long wanted to reread.
Honestly though I'm not damaging Petra's business ;)
Lol to both of you. I totally could not go a whole year without buying any books. I walk into a bookshop to buy a present for someone and invariably come out with at least one for myself as well. This book is then added to the piles of tomes waiting to be read, enjoyed, revisited in weird and dangerously balanced constructions on floors, tables or indeed any surface ready to receive. Indeed visitors should keep moving or at least not stay motionless for too long lest they offer a space for a new pile to begin.
Petra X wrote: "That's cos you live too far Jan-Maat (or at least I think you do)."You only have yourself to blame for locating your business so far away from my wallet! ;)
I walk into a bookshop to buy a present for someone and invariably come out with at least one for myself as well.
This is starting to feel like going to bookbuyers anomynous. Buying a book is a different and unrelated pleasure to reading a book, at least for me. And finding something in an actual bookshop different again to placing an order for something online
Jan-Maat wrote: "You only have yourself to blame for locating your business so far away from my wallet! ;)"I heard you could buy on Amazon a specialised magnet that pulls wallets in!
Going to a new bookshop or finding a bookshop after a morning's boring food/clothes shopping is heaven. Especially if it has a coffee shop.
Finding one with Pinot Grigio, Chablis or Pouilly Fume on tap would be even better
Maybe not but with a couple of those inside me I might even give Francoise Sagan another go !
I didn't read the Sagan you did. But Bonjour tristesse was a lovely book, especially for a romantically-depressive teenage girl. You aren't one of those, but you know, reading can give you the flavour of another person ;-)
No I do appreciate what you are saying my friend. Interestingly Bonjour tristesse has come up in a conversation I was having with a friend here in Poole only last week. Maybe that is serendipity or coincidence or whatever that phrase is. Maybe i should give it a go.
sign me up. One year of reading from home. How much does it cost?
it would be priceless i think
by the way Petra, the word i was looking for earlier was synchronicity....at least i think it was.
I know exactly what you mean Reese, I used to get thrown by the reappearance of reviews I thought I had liked but then realized they get re-posted when 'fiddled with'. (That is, I believe, a technical term. As to not buying this book, yep, I thoroughly enjoyed the reading of it but it did horrendously load down my to read list as well. Hope you are well my friend. Always lovely to hear from you.
I seriously got that little hot moment in the middle of my chest reading that. I couldn't do that, a whole year, also my business, without anyone buying books for a whole year...
Actually the older I get the more feasible it would be to do as the author did because I've forgotten so much. I read some C.P. Snow in school and I've now got hold of the entire cycle of Strangers and Brothers and I can't remember hardly anything, which kind of shocked me. I suppose I didn't meet any characters that leapt of the page...