Polysyllabic Spree - Nick Hornby
A loan from Phil for the TGV/Eurostar home from Avignon, and greatly enjoyed. The book is a collection of Nick Hornby's monthly musings on what he books he buys to read and why, and which books he actually gets round to reading and what he thinks of them. A bit like this really! He doesn't go in too deep on the plot analysis or literary criticism fronts, which suited me fine. It was far more fascinating to read about why of the buying and reading.
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